Ha. Nice try.

Funny how careful Microsoft is, saying "faster" and "safer" while the other browsers go for "fastest" and "safest"

This should not even be allowed... It is counter advertising, damaging the precious imago of ye olde firefox browser 🤔

Wonder what trick it will pull with internet explorer lol

lol, why are you using Bing??

@kodingsykosis Probably because it's the default and this will be the first and last search query on that browser anyway.

@GlowSquid Probably to convey being trustful.
They also said 69% where every other cooperation would've rounded it up to 70%.

Even though I don't like Microsofts actions (Privacy in Windows, general strategies, the GitHub thing, ...) I have to give them kudos for being honest and not relying on exaggerations.

So you get 1% of socially engineered malware with it also?

@LinusCDE The 69% is propably never tested anywhere but defined by marketing instead.

@karma here in germany Im sure it isn't but afaik at some places in the world it is general practice to make competitive ads

...but I must say, the last Firefox versions where slow. Damn slow. And memory hungry as fuck. With all the MS and IE hate, I must say, (before quantum came out), Microsoft was not lying on this. Edge was - in fact - faster than Firefox...

@Benedikt To my lnowledge they did infact make tests. But the conditions werent transparent enough and it was only the result of one run.
At the time, Firefox Quantum wasn't released either.

I wonder if ms is gonna stop user from installing certain browsers. 🤔🙅

@drekhi12 they already tried that a few years back. The EU fined them half a billion euros

@GlowSquid serves them right

I bet everybody here assuming that edge is slow and not safe, didn't try it

Windows itself is slow and unsafe 😁

@GlowSquid they never stopped user installing other browsers, and no windows it's not slow and unsafe (more or less like any other os) ... stop say bullshit

You are right, I'm sorry if you took it literal. They were fined 561m euros for failing to promote other browsers.
Did you ever try to any alternatives to Windows? Linux distros doesn't come with all that bloat and spyware crap that Windows won't even let you uninstall without performing powershell magic. My dual-booting machines performs a hell of a lot faster on Linux, and I don't have to worry about viruses or sporadic crashes.

@GlowSquid yeah but it's still stupid, when you install/buy mac, ios, linux, android you don't find a browser preinstalled?
yeah i tried alternatives to windows, but windows it's the one that fit me best, specially for the sw, services and programming languages that i use
yeah there are few uwp preinstalled, but they're not bloatware, they consume just a bit of space, uwp doesn't autostart with the os, change system settings, and use the registry
I don't care if my OS or IDE start few seconds faster than alternatives, if they make me much more productive at the end of the day
I don't see a virus since XP, if you're not so stupid to click on any exe and give admin permissions, on XP there was one (sasser?) that didn't require user action
I don't see a crash since windows 7 (included), if you have decent hw/drivers/sw (except 2 times, but once was faulty hdd and once faulty ram)
cheers

@dontbeevil the fact that you have programs installed, that can't be uninstalled, regardless of the space they consume, is still considered bloatware.
And yes, you can install Android and other Linux based systems without pre-installed browsers.