Microsoft back to its old tricks to get an edge on the competition.

[douglas9]

What if Microsoft put the same effort into improving their Internet Explorer (Edge) browser as they do making it so hard for you to use a different browser on Windows? Vivaldi is not afraid of competing on a level playing field. Why is Microsoft?


We’ve been here before. And it is frustrating in 2021 to find Microsoft blatantly engaging in anti-competitive practices once again.

I picked up on this latest round when I got my new Windows laptop. Naturally the first thing I did was to fire up the default browser Internet Explorer (Edge) to download Vivaldi. But it seems like Microsoft does not like the idea of people trying out Vivaldi… This is what they show when you search for Vivaldi in Bing on Edge.

They tell you that you don’t need to try another browser and tell you to use the one they recommend… which is made by them. What are the odds?

After downloading and installing Vivaldi, I wanted to set it as my default browser. But Microsoft doesn’t give up that quickly. It does not want you to stop using Edge. So it makes basic things like changing the default browser difficult. This is on Windows 10. Windows 11 is even worse, as Forbes reports.


https://vivaldi.com/blog/microsoft-back-to-its-old-tricks-to-get-an-edge-on-the-competition/