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Edge has always been Chrome with a Microsoft badge on.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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Once upon a time, it wasn't. Then, it was.
This isn't cooperation, this is rivalry. The point is for you to use Edge instead of Chrome.
Just another skirmish in the war for what matters most: which tech-giant is the default choice.
which tech-giant is the default choice
Meanwhile, on Lemmy, I suffer under the tyranny of Big Penguin
Big penguin is no joke. Just last week a penguin busted down my front door and forced me to compile my own kernel from source!
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Heyoo!
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You mean, chromium-based browser vs. chromium-based browser?
I know, it's about data mining (don't call it telemetry), but still. Funny. I bet they didn't even remove all Google links from the source code.
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photograph of monitor
Does OP know about screenshots (Print Screen key or WindowsKey-Shift-S which brings up Snipping Tool) or alt text? 🤦pressing Print Screen
Does it matter that much in the context?
alt text for accessibility?
That one's fair
That one's fair
Right. And then you take a picture of the printout of the emailed PDF on a wooden table, we know the old ways.
i haven't worked in a business envorenment in a while does this come before or after you fax it to your recipient
Both is safer, but it's best to check with your manager.
Super key*
ShareX is the way
I wonder if it's an early response to the talk of breaking up Google and Chrome. MS gets more people onboarded to Edge and Google still gets your browser level metrics.
People will complain about everything, but never just switch to Firefox, huh? You can't be helped then. There is just the one browser (and a couple of forks of it).
You're making a lot of assumptions here. I use Firefox. But business do not.
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I don’t really understand the issue here. Why does anyone care if you can sign into Google services on Edge?
It's not the ability that's bothersome (that part is fine, and has been there). It's the fact that this is part of the first boot screen you see on Edge now, with dark patterns to get you to do it.
Oh sure, that makes sense. I never use Edge except when I’m testing a windows server VM.
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A solution is not to use any product, service or software made by MS or google.
Not a choice in most business settings. Windows servers, Microsoft cloud, Windows workstations, and a 365 to complement. You have a better, equally integrated solution? Because, if so, I'd love to hear it.
Edit. I'm being serious. I'd love to hear it. If it meets the needs of my employer, I'll pitch it. I have some pull. Who knows... it may work.
You have a better, equally integrated solution?
I mean, we do. Linux OS, Libre Office, Apache servers, Linux Cloud Service of Choice, PostgreSQL.
But you need techs familiar with those systems and businesses eager to implement Linux at a foundational level early on in the company's development. Because a lot of businesses outsource their IT early on, and because a lot of end-user hardware has Microsoft pre-installed, and because the major IT outsourcers all get big kickbacks from Microsoft to be the default solutions, and because Microsoft has embedded itself at the university level at a global scale, and because Microsoft has successfully lobbied itself as the premier US contractor of choice for federal and state IT setups, it can be harder to find professionals willing and able to configure a Linux environment. This is assuming the company founders even think to ask for alternatives.
That's not to say it never happens. FFS, some of the biggest competitors to Microsoft - Amazon and Google most notably - have relied on Linux/PostgreSQL architecture to keep their overhead low and their integrations non-exclusive. But they're exceptional precisely because they laid the groundwork early.
The problem isn't that integrated solutions don't exist. The problem is that most CTOs don't embrace them early on in the company's development and find themselves trapped in the Microsoft ecosystem well after the point a transition would be easy.
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I doubt that
I wouldn't be surprised if Google doesn't consent to any of this
Booted my desktop since my work computers windows and I game mostly on my steam deck, and holy shit is Manjaro fast as hell compared to windows in 2025. Like I'm so used to clicking and waiting and in Manjaro you click and it's just there.
Man fuck windows.
Yeah, just started using W11 for work and it's insane how often I need to wait for character to buffer in after I typed something.
I shouldn't be faster than my computer in this day and age, and yet here we are.
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True or not, I'm one email away from total freedom.
Just wonder about anti spam measures.
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To put it into perspective: if Leibniz was right and this is truely the best of all worlds, be happy that you don't live in any of the other, more shittier timelines. Like the one where Apple sells monitor stands for $1000. Oh, wait...
Edge has been Chromium based for a while now. Hell, a lot of the 365 stuff will only work in Edge or Chrome.
It's wild how corporations are so openly cool with paying license fees to give everything away to Microsoft.
I would have told them to pound sand as soon as they tried to push the 365 and Azure shit if I was a business.
a lot of the 365 stuff will only work in Edge or Chrome.
Can you give a few examples?
Anecdotally, I use 365 on Firefox at work and haven't noticed browser specific issues yet.
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How can we be sure this is genuine? I can see there is an opt out option. Thats very unMicrosoft like
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Microsoft is is bed with Google now,
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lol
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