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Is there a way to stop W10 from resetting default applications?
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 09:33:25 -0500, Mayayana wrote:
"mechanic" wrote | But I don't recall hearing anyone say anything good | about Edge, so I'm curious why you like it so much. | | Twice I asked. Twice you posted a link with no explanation. I'll assume that you really haven't given it much thought and just arbitrarily "picked a team". I picked a site that listed the plus points for Edge; clearly I could have listed them in a post without a link, but I thought the site would be easier to digest. No further explanation needed I think. |
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Is there a way to stop W10 from resetting default applications?
"mechanic" wrote
| | | Twice I asked. Twice you posted a link with no | explanation. I'll assume that you really haven't | given it much thought and just arbitrarily "picked | a team". | | I picked a site that listed the plus points for Edge; clearly I | could have listed them in a post without a link, but I thought the | site would be easier to digest. No further explanation needed I | think. Those were *really* your points? You haven't given it any more thought that that? Then why are you so hot on Edge? I don't get it. It's none of my business if you like Edge, but you've been repeatedly telling everyone else they should like Edge, so it seems reasonable to ask why. The page you linked is just superficial fluff. Social media prattle. Searching on the author I could only find what seem to be light, fluffy, bits, with a heavy social media presence. One of those people that brings up links to Facebook, Twitter, etc but no real links. Here's a sample: https://utkarshchhiber.tumblr.com/ He not only likes Edge. He also likes being silly, Friends TV show, Eminem lyrics, close-ups of bikinis, sloppy, profane use of language, and being a consumer... In other words, he seems to be a normal college student. Hot diggetty. The perfect person to offer us a cogent analysis of Edge, no? Here's his "analysis" of Edge: * No crashes. (Great. I don't remember the last time I saw any browser crash.) * UI is smooth comparatively. (Whatever that means.) * The new settings page opens much faster. (Another low bar rating. Firefox settings open instantly. What was the problem with Edge before? Did it crash when you tried to open the settings? Are there any programs with notably slow settings windows? What the heck is he talking about?) * Fluent design (The return of Win7 Aero techno-kitsch. Hardly a selling point. More like a distraction. Though I suppose it might look good after being graphically starved by the pseudo-futuristic blandness of Metro monotones.) * Speed of opening (Yes, because it's already loaded. All browsers open fast after the first load because they leave libraries loaded. Microsoft just does that at boot to make their bloatware seem zippy. [What? You had other plans for that RAM?]) * Cortana (That's a good thing? Why? Because he doesn't know how to use search? Why would anyone trust that Cortana suggestions are not tainted by kickbacks or ads? Comically, he actually says the Google version is better. So he's listing Cortana as a selling point because it's not only silly but also not very good.) * Youtube loads fast (Does he mean loading the videos? I'll have to take his word for that. Since I have DownloadHelper in Firefox I've never actually seen a video load in a webpage on my computer. I download them and play them as I like.) I haven't actually seen any clear reasons from people who *don't* like Edge, either, though I seem to remember some people complaining that it couldn't handle some sites. When I search there seem to be a lot of complaints about it being susceptible to malware. Since it's not really a browser but only a Win10 component, it's not easy to assess it. For instance, Chrome is spyware. But Win10 is also spyware. Edge IS Win10. Thus Edge is spyware. And the guts of Edge are IE without all the IE-specific goodies. Not an auspicious beginning. But I wonder if Edge's failure might be mainly due to Google's Chrome integration with their services and the sheer number of people using gmail. I have no first-hand experience of Google services, but I'd guess Google makes it easy to stay in their "silo". As for the spyware, I read recently that Microsoft did research for their new browser by popping up questionaires to people using Chrome, along the lines of, "Would you tell us why you like to use Chrome?" I suppose for people who think it's normal that Microsoft spy on their software usage, and who think it's handy to have a blue cartoon of a wet-T-shirt contest babe interrupt your browsing to tell you how and what to think, maybe Edge does make sense. It's all the snazzy idiocy of Siri without the steep price. But that also brings up what may be the biggest problem with Microsoft's recent direction: They said themselves that Bing was meant for shopping. Cortana is pitched as a consumer helper feature. (Which Indian restaurant is best? Look, here's Cortana to tell us before we even ask! We love you, Cortana.) Win10 is a service, infested with consumer research spyware. None of that is a good development for people who actually want to use their computer for something other than buying entertainment. I expect that from Google. Everything Google does is aimed at spying on you and selling ads. What I'd like to see from Microsoft is just decent software. Instead they keep trying to cash in with Google's M.O. But if Cortana wants to party, that might be a selling point. Who could resist a body like that, festooned with glowing circuitry? Yowza! My skin is tingling with 12v electrical excitement just thinking about her. https://www.halopedia.org/File:CortanaH4_render.jpg |
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