The Core
Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: rcjordan on May 03, 2017, 02:05:11 PM
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10 S = Surface laptop.
All over my feeds.
Good way to quickly put Surface out of its misery.
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Isn't this the same as chrome browser forced on chrome os?
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Isn't this the same as chrome browser forced on chrome os?
Yes, roughly akin, but Microsoft lacks the fanbois the Alphabet folks have.
Not allowing a change of default search provider is a bit rough, but then
- Google was the first big company which pushed address bar as search box with Chrome
- Google pays to be default in other browsers like Opera & Safari
- for many users Google has reset default search providers in Chrome after the fact, though this aspect is rarely discussed publicly & when it was mentioned they did it from the malware perspective
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2014/01/clean-up-your-hijacked-settings.html
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2014/05/protecting-chrome-users-from-malicious.html