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Teeqoz on 31 July 2015
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Ka-pi96 said:
Teeqoz said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Not really abuse though. There's nothing forcing people to use Microsoft's browsers or software. It's really simple to just go and get one of the other ones. They shouldn't have to hold your hand through making the choice, if people are too stupid to figure out how to download non-MS software instead well then that's just their own fault.

It might the peoples fault that their too stupid/lazy to download non-MS software, but do you know who's problem it is? Google's and Firefox's problem.

Well if it's google/firefox's problem then maybe they should be the ones making it easier to download their browsers or making their own OS to compete with MS. It isn't up to MS to do google/firefox's job for them.


*sigh*

You do understand what the concept of abusing your monopoly means? Google/Firefox doesn't have control over how easy Microsoft makes it to keep your preferred browser. If Microsoft intentionally makes it more difficult to download/keep Chrome/Firefox, that is abusing their monopoly in OS. Both Firefox and Google have made their own OS's, but they haven't been able to attain much market share. Does that give Microsoft a free pass to do whatever they want with Windows, because Google and Firefox has their own OS?

If Microsoft made it only possible to have Edge on W10, meaning that you'd have to switch OS to Firefox OS or Chrome OS to use a different browser, would you be okay with that? That is the extreme of this case.

And once again, I don't know if MS doesn't give you the option to keep your preferred browser when you upgrade, but this is all if they don't.