
mmmm
who got bought?
The European Commission has reversed its decision that some Apple and Microsoft offerings qualify as "gatekeeper services" under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), meaning the bloc’s toughest regulations won’t be applied. The Tuesday decision means Apple's iMessage and Microsoft's Edge, Bing, and Advertising won’t be subject to …
It does seem a bit suspicious... there was an article talking about the fall in popularity of Firefox and, in my opinion, one of the reasons for this is Windows pushing Edge like crazy. Some links open in Edge even when it's not the default browser, it keeps asking me to change the default bowser even though I said "no" repeatedly. The way it asks implies that Edge is somehow better...
A couple of non IT people I work with installed Firefox but within a few weeks they were no longer using it, not as a result of an informed choice just Microsoft's badgering and phrasing of questions pushing them to Edge.
Google is no better with Chrome..... but that's a story for another tirade :-)
Chrome is a cancer. Install anything Google on your PC and you'll get Chrome whether you want it or not.
I once installed Google Earth on my home PC. The next day, Chrome's icon showed up in my task bar. After installing Google Earth and launching it, it went and installed Chrome "for" me.
I uninstalled Chrome and thought nothing more of it for the day. The next day, Chrome's icon was back in my task bar. That annoyed me immensely, so I uninstalled Chrome again and checked my Services. Sure enough, there was some service which was running and named in a way to make it clear that its job was to check that Chrome is installed. I killed that service with fire. Thinking I was finally free of the blight, I went on to do other things during the day.
The next day, that damn Chrome icon was back, along with the service. Google Earth had restored everything to Google's specification, and fuck me and my opinion on what is supposed to be running on my PC.
That is when I decided that nothing Google would ever be installed on my home PC ever again. I nuked Chrome, Google Earth and every attendant service once and for all.
Now, since I use Gmail for my professional life, I might as well use Chrome on my work laptop, so I installed Google Earth there. That laptop is already infected with Windows 1 0, so, a little more . . .
Neat trick.
Who the fuck uses Word often enough to warrant that non ADA-compliant key combo. I'd take Excel over Word every day.
But then again, I keep it pinned to my taskbar, so unless I have 12 screens like some traders do (finding where the mouse is hiding can't be fun), right-clicking the Excel icon on the taskbar is easier than those key combos.
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