Reply to post: Re: Seen in the wild!

Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?

Nick Ryan Silver badge

Re: Seen in the wild!

Yep, Win 10 is full of Windows functions ignoring the user's preference and opening things up in bloody edge regardless. All these inadvertent clicks naturally get counted as part of the usage lies/statistics. Not forgetting periodically hijacking other document types and forcing users onto edge as well. Then we have the whining special case "you want to change your browser, please don't do this, use edge instead" type of nonsense when trying to change the user's default browser - do other applications have this level of crap around attempting to confuse a user into using edge? No.

The pinnacle though is that Edge is wholeheartedly aimed at end, home users and not business or enterprise users. It's barely compatible with SharePoint (although in truth, sanity is barely compatible with SharePoint, the least worst browser to use with it is IE). Edge is thoroughly uncontrollable using group policy, IE is largely controllable using group policy - subject to various levels of stupid of course.

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