Switching from Chrome to Edge

You're getting Edge shoved in your face if you like it or not!

Haven't seen this. Dunno what he's on about. I think the first time I opened edge it asked me if I wanted to make it the default. Just like every browser. I said no.

I'm invested in Google's ecosystem. Edge on my phone doesn't cut it, so I continued to use chrome.

I’ll stick with my Macs, thenkyewverramooch.

Sissy.

Macs are for people who want to do work with their computer. WinDoze is for people who want to work on their computer.

And I just had this pushed on me. The computer told me that it needed to reboot to install an update, so I did the reboot and when it came back, there was a giant splash screen welcoming me to Edge. There was no obvious way for me to kill the damn thing without at least clicking through some of the "Let's Get Started" bullshit. Then, when I killed it, I found that MackrelSlurp had ever so unhelpfully pinned Edge to the taskbar. I took care of that, but I can imagine that a number of non-tech savvy folks would find themselves forced to use Edge. At least until the holidays rolled around where their relative who acts as their IT person can fix things for them. In the meantime, they'll no doubt be bugging the crap out of their family members because of the issues that this has caused.

That's what they're on about? This happens everytime they roll out a major windows release. Look for the microsoft store button to reappear too.

It's marketing, folks.

I’ve never had a giant box pop up on my screen telling me all about Edge (or any MS app) after a previous update. And if your marketing annoys your customers, then it’s not very good marketing.

Really? It happened on my work PC a few days ago. I didn't even think about it. click click gone.

That’s nice. You sound like Dayton when he was incapable of understanding that people might have a legitimate reason for disagreeing with him about an experience.

scary huh? Next thing you know I'll be taking issue with tweets.

And probably cry about it across 6 different threads saying you don’t care and won’t people please alter their experience for your convenience.

FTFY

I had Edge pop up and want to be my default browser, I decided I didn't and kept Chrome as my default browser. It hasn't bugged me since then. I didn't have any changes made except the icon changed to the edge icon.

But this is actually interesting, no? I saw the same message, and you'd think it would be true for everyone going through the same update on the same software. Wonder why you didn't?

At a WAG, I'd say it was a processor issue. In the past, MS has said that they'd support Windows for X number of years, now they're saying that they'll only support certain processors going forward, and they haven't been clear as to which processors they would and would not support. Nor how they might treat different processors. So, it is entirely possible that someone could have a CPU in their PC that will only get a limited number of Windows updates, while someone with a slightly different CPU will get all the Windows updates MS pushes out for the next few years. You could literally, from what I understand, have one PC with a particular AMD CPU in it, and another PC with an Intel PC in it that has the same level of performance as the AMD PC, but only one of the machines could be guaranteed to get updates, even though both of them might be subjected to the same security issues.