Microsoft infects defectors

[Stephen Partington]

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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Stephen
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