Microsoft infects defectors

[Michael Butash]

Very nice, never run into this before, but looks cool!  Thanks Stephen.

-mb

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ninite installer (ninite.com) stashed on your installation media can
> allow you to sidestep ever launching edge :-)
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:51 AM Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow.
>> Guess that means they want you on their *ahem* browser and won’t take
>> downloading another for an answer.
>>
>> I tried out edge on win10 with jaws. Forget it! Not very accessible and
>> even win10 narrator wouldn’t do everything in there either. I haven’t tried
>> out NVDA on that as yet (been doing a little troubleshooting of my mates
>> machine here and the win10 desktop is a kludge of hit and miss
>> accessibility using either narrator or jaws. SMH
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2018, at 10:54 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>>
>> Saw this tonight, not so unbelievable, and yet such a dirtbag thing to
>> see.
>>
>>
>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/10/27/stop-using-microsoft-edge-to-download-chrome-unless-you-want-malware/
>>
>> Exactly why I defected to linux.  I note when I install a windoze os
>> still, launching edge to search "google chrome" results it in it begging
>> you not to leave.  It's funny to me.
>>
>> I keep a dated old chrome and firefox around on a share to bootstrap off
>> of so as not to even launch edge for a while now, at least at home.
>>
>> Now they just link you to malware.  Caveat emtor indeed.
>>
>> -mb
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