<story><title>Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-system-components-default-edge.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjbwork</author><text>&amp;gt;Back then businesses were a lot more scared of the repercussions of anti-competitive behaviour than they are now.&lt;p&gt;Reasonably, too.  Governments seem reluctant to actually regulate anti-competitive behavior these days, especially from tech giants.  I think it must be a kind of technological &amp;quot;too big to fail&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I remember when we first found out that IE could be uninstalled from Windows 98 and thus what eventually lead the EU to mandate Microsoft give Windows users a choice of 3rd party browsers.&lt;p&gt;Back then businesses were a lot more scared of the repercussions of anti-competitive behaviour than they are now.</text></item><item><author>eganist</author><text>I remember when we first found out that IE could be &amp;quot;uninstalled&amp;quot; from Windows 7 (it was a checkbox in an early build&amp;#x27;s programs list that let you have it removed, basically).&lt;p&gt;Interesting seeing the about-face over a decade later.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;for those not aware, Rafael&amp;#x27;s almost a two decade long authority on the topic of smashing Windows internals to bits to see how it all works.</text></item><item><author>withinrafael</author><text>Glad to see someone else chasing this down, and not surprised this is still not yet reproducible.&lt;p&gt;Paul Thurrott and I were also scratching our heads with this one on August 25. After failing to reproduce the behavior, he wrote up our collective experience [1] the next day. We chalked it up to yet another Windows Insider screw up, marked it as an unsolved case, and moved on.&lt;p&gt;I certainly hope the change eventually makes it into the OS before the Windows 11 &amp;quot;23H2&amp;quot; release is finalized (imminent).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thurrott.com&amp;#x2F;paul&amp;#x2F;287711&amp;#x2F;scaling-back-the-terrible-in-windows-11-and-other-stories-id-like-to-tell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thurrott.com&amp;#x2F;paul&amp;#x2F;287711&amp;#x2F;scaling-back-the-terrib...&lt;/a&gt; (pay-walled)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>offices</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a deliberate emphasis on the etymology of monopoly, ignoring that the word was created to describe the problems it caused and the n-opolies are causing all the same problems.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-system-components-default-edge.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjbwork</author><text>&amp;gt;Back then businesses were a lot more scared of the repercussions of anti-competitive behaviour than they are now.&lt;p&gt;Reasonably, too.  Governments seem reluctant to actually regulate anti-competitive behavior these days, especially from tech giants.  I think it must be a kind of technological &amp;quot;too big to fail&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I remember when we first found out that IE could be uninstalled from Windows 98 and thus what eventually lead the EU to mandate Microsoft give Windows users a choice of 3rd party browsers.&lt;p&gt;Back then businesses were a lot more scared of the repercussions of anti-competitive behaviour than they are now.</text></item><item><author>eganist</author><text>I remember when we first found out that IE could be &amp;quot;uninstalled&amp;quot; from Windows 7 (it was a checkbox in an early build&amp;#x27;s programs list that let you have it removed, basically).&lt;p&gt;Interesting seeing the about-face over a decade later.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;for those not aware, Rafael&amp;#x27;s almost a two decade long authority on the topic of smashing Windows internals to bits to see how it all works.</text></item><item><author>withinrafael</author><text>Glad to see someone else chasing this down, and not surprised this is still not yet reproducible.&lt;p&gt;Paul Thurrott and I were also scratching our heads with this one on August 25. After failing to reproduce the behavior, he wrote up our collective experience [1] the next day. We chalked it up to yet another Windows Insider screw up, marked it as an unsolved case, and moved on.&lt;p&gt;I certainly hope the change eventually makes it into the OS before the Windows 11 &amp;quot;23H2&amp;quot; release is finalized (imminent).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thurrott.com&amp;#x2F;paul&amp;#x2F;287711&amp;#x2F;scaling-back-the-terrible-in-windows-11-and-other-stories-id-like-to-tell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thurrott.com&amp;#x2F;paul&amp;#x2F;287711&amp;#x2F;scaling-back-the-terrib...&lt;/a&gt; (pay-walled)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;I think it must be a kind of technological &amp;quot;too big to fail&amp;quot;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft was still big even back then, and yet they got regulated. Bell&amp;#x2F;AT&amp;amp;T was also a giant monopoly and it also got broken up. It seems that size wasn&amp;#x27;t the problem.</text></comment>