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Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again / Microsoft has a history of tricks to get you to use Edge, and the latest one targets Chrome users once again (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft clearly isn’t bothered that it’s automatically starting up Edge on people’s PC and then trying to trick them into importing their Chrome data. That’s not too surprising though since Microsoft has been pulling tricks like this for more than four years now.

Microsoft’s behavior here makes many people distrust Edge, Windows 11, and even the company’s AI efforts.

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[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just doing the lords work and spreading the news of W11 IoT Enterprise LTSC. It only has Defender and Edge; no Xbox, App Store, Copilot, nor Recall, or any other bloat. Perfect for gaming. Don't waste your time looking for it on sites like massgravedotdev.

[–] cheet@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

And if you have lots of windows machines at home, running enterprise for whatever reason, dont look up vlmcsd and definitely dont look up the kms srv records to put on your home domain

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except it's not perfect for gaming. If you happen to have titles purchased through the Xbox/MS storefronts, you won't be able to play them. The version of windows you speak of lacks three critical system packages that allow UWP based games to work. Xbox Identity Provider, TCUI, and speech to text (some games rely on that for accessibility). If you file any bug report or ask for support from the development, they'll discard your ticket when they look at logs (unsupported OS). You also gimp yourself on feature sets.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can install all the M$ Store and Xbox apps. Afterwards the XBox app will tell you all the other apps missing and a 1 click button to install each. It's just a nice clean blank slate to start with. It doesn't even have .net or vcredist installed.

What missing feature sets?

Edit: I myself install 2 needed dependencies to get Winget running after a fresh install. One has to do with UWP.