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Dear Microsoft,
Here's your next way to forcehelp people to use Edge...
Evil Marketing Ploy Every third time a link is clicked on the Win10 computer, simply open it in Edge no matter which browser is set as default.
It'll be so annoying that eventually a number of people will give up on trying to use another company's browser and will make Edge the default.
I've copyrighted and patented this idea so when you implement it, please transfer $10.25 million USD into my bank account and make me CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Microsoft.
I look forward to the $$$ being transferred with the next Win10 update.
Sincerely
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A slightly over-the-top headline: they're not trying to stop people from using other browsers in general (yet!). They're just considering making web links from one of their programs ignore the default browser, and open in Edge instead.
Which seems like a great way to make people switch to a different email client, rather than increasing the number of Edge users.
It's a terrible idea, and if it rolls out, I'm sure it will end up in another anti-trust case against them. It's just not quite as bad as the headline suggests. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes, that's the way I read it, too. Wrap Windows Mail the concrete boots of Edge and watch them sink together whilst the legal fees spiral. It really is a spectacularly stupid idea.
If I had any shares in MS, I'd be looking to verify the story and I'd offload them if it turned out to be correct.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Oy, MS - when you let ME decide where and how to display the favorites tab then I'll think about using you. Until then, Chrome (with an extension) does the trick. 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Much ado about nothing; this is merely having the built-in mail program (yes, it actually exists) open links in Edge. Who uses the built-in mail program? (I suspect that the real reason for this has more to do with changes to how the mail program is written than security. In other words, they're probably making it an Edge app.)
modified 19-Mar-18 11:49am.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Who uses the built-in mail program?
I'd imagine an awful lot of users would. Normal people don't tend to customise machines the way that developers do.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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This isn't customization; I suspect most people use a mail program through their browser. This is especially true for those who also have a smart phone. (My dad is the only person I know still using a stand-alone email client for personal use--Thunderbird. Of course, he used to also print out all his emails and file them.)
modified 19-Mar-18 12:11pm.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Of course, he used to also print out all his emails and file them
My mother in law does it too. And she was perfectly calmed when my father in law got catched by the indian spammers and they deleted the HDD.
Luckily I have managed to recover a very big % of the data, but it could have been a disaster for him. She had all important things in paper and archived.
FAZIT: Analog ways are still important in the digital era.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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While most of that is true, its these kind of shenanigans that give MS a bad name, and multi-million lawsuits under anti-trust law in the EU.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'm going with the flow and am using Edge, it's great for reading pdf's and epub's
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The biggest problem I have with Edge is the lack of control.
Sometimes, I like to go in and delete individual cookies, or find one particular link from days gone by by browsing the history. Or sometimes I have to clear the SSL certs.
Basically, all the things I can do with IE.
Edge is set up for people who don't.
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That does it.
Oh Ron, you and your big threats.
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But Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs must still contain approved antivirus to receive post-Spectre/Meltdown patches. That's one less way to avoid Windows Update
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Software approved by Microsoft? I don't see anything going wrong there...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's one of the finest examples of Antivirus undocumented feature abuse ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ery I've ever seen. A lot of them were doing abusive things in the kernel that broke with the spectre/meltdown patches; and since MS not the company guilty of garbage kernel drivers gets 99.99% of the blame for BSODs they initially went with a whitelist for AV software. Hopefully next month will see W7/8 switch to a blacklist model too.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Six orbiting instruments make up NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) project and they are used to study Earth's climate and the role clouds play in climate change. "Methinks it is like a weasel. "
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So, "send pics" instead of "send codez".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As we approach useful hardware, human elements of computing are becoming critical. 5-10 years away, for the next 50-100 years
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Security researchers and reporters have something in common: both hold the powerful accountable. But doing so has painted a target on their backs — and looming threats of legal action and lawsuits have many concerned. "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
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At this point, the concept of DevOps should be familiar to everyone. But with the rise of cybersecurity attacks, organizations have seen the need to incorporate security into the mix. Thus, the idea of DevSecOps Depends. What was it supposed to accomplish (beyond merging a bunch of salaries)?
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Dev Protocol is a new project that uses blockchain to give software developers a secure place to build their professional reputations. "That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang"
And women, of course.
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Safari, Edge, and Firefox were the favorite targets that fell to white hat hackers at the world's most well-known competitive hacking competition —Pwn2Own 2018— held over the past two days in Vancouver, Canada. So, IE is safe to use again?
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As a programmer you have a unique style, and stylometry techniques can be used to fingerprint your style and determine with high probability whether or not a piece of code was written by you. Your code gives you away
It's those switch statements - you can't get a break!
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