In parallel with the major update of Windows 10, the version 2004, Microsoft has decided to deploy in June the new version of the browser Edge, a competitor to Chrome, Firefox and the other Safari. Replacing Internet Explorer, this software previously based on an in-house system has been redesigned around the Chromium, that is to say, with the same base as the Google browser, which allows it to display finally great performance. But this launch makes cringe, Microsoft trying to force Windows users.
The browser window Edge, it's impossible to exit normally, as it would appear in Windows 10. © Screenshot The Point.frAu place to offer the software to its customers and leave them free to try it, the editor has decided to display automatically when Windows starts, a window impossible to close, in which the only possible choice is to "take in hand" Edge. No button to say no or to exit : the user is required to discover a software that he has never asked. As if that wasn't enough, Microsoft will force the addition of the icon Edge in the taskbar and on the desktop, and notifications appear.
Vacuum data
Some users testify of their misadventures : the a explains have accidentally deleted Office suite comprising Word, Excel, etc), trying to get rid of Edge, while another ensures you have decided to install Linux on the same day to get rid of Windows.
The icon of the browser Edge is automatically added to the taskbar as well as on the Windows desktop, and notifications appear. © Screenshot The Point.frPlus serious : in some cases, even stopping the process as soon as it appeared, the Edge automatically imports personal data. Several testimonials on the forum Reddit are reporting that the bookmarks of Firefox, for example, appear in the Edge before the user has authorised their import. "Like other browsers, the Microsoft Edge server enables its users to import data during installation," commented a spokesperson from Microsoft, in which it confirms that the data are extracted automatically, but the user can delete them by refusing the import. To be used in personal data and then, in a second time, to ask permission to do so : that is a strange way to proceed...
Our tip : when the window Edge appears, click on " take in hand ", this will bring up a second window that has, this time, with a cross in the top right corner to exit. For the more geeky, you can also use the task manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) to stop the Edge, but Microsoft warns that such action could cause the browser to delete the personal data that it has automatically imported. We do not come out !
little market share
Formerly emperor of the Web with the first versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft had been shaken up by Firefox, the free browser from Mozilla, and then dethroned by Chrome, the browser developed by Google to promote its own services. Microsoft is trying desperately to regain market share with the Edge, launched in 2015, and that is cresting today at 3 % of market share in the world (Chrome/Google : 64 %, Safari/Apple : 18 %, Firefox/Mozilla : 4 %).
Already condemned by the european Commission for non-respect of the freedom of choice of the browser in its operating system, the Redmond behemoth seems to always want to take advantage of Windows to impose the choices of the users. At a time when the dominance of the operating system's star is shaken up by the products of Apple, for the devices under Android or the game consoles, and other connected tvs, not sure that this is a strategy that has paid off.
