I am willing to bet there will be A LOT of people. I am a very tech savvy person, and I use edge on my work computer for many things (single sign on). My default search engine changed to bing, and I ended up using bing by accident for a while. And then for a while longer cause I was too lazy to change the setting.
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PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 19 hours ago
I love how in their minds this is going to be a win. Like there are going to be all these people out there who just quietly accept that they’ll use Microsoft Edge from now on, and also in addition not form any kind of revision to their brand impression of Microsoft going forward.
I am sure there are some people who just kind of don’t give a fuck about computers who that will be accurate for, but I feel like it’s a much smaller minority than Microsoft seems to think that it is.
danc4498@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Stupid is as stupid does.
handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Most users I know can’t distinguish Edge from Chrome any longer. I have to ask them to look for the Copilot symbol to differentiate the two.
Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 18 hours ago
All of that but then also that they will buy out any competition so you can care and notice, but fuck you.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You’re definitely overestimating the size of your own bubble. The vast, vast, vast majority of people won’t even notice.
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 19 hours ago
https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q1
Check “Market Share by OS” and switch it to Windows. Every one of those 67.359% of people who is using Chrome had it downloaded to their computer on purpose instead of just clicking “Internet” and getting Edge. Obviously they feel strongly enough to do that, so I don’t see how they would be amenable to losing all their bookmarks and settings and just going with Edge when one day their OS tries to trick them into it.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 19 hours ago
many of those chrome ‘users’ got there after clicking on one of google’s many somewhat misleading ‘advertisements’ or ‘notices’ or ‘warnings’
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 19 hours ago
Citation: It is known
How many of them? How do you know?
“Many. It is known.”
I also like how you put “users” in quotes for some reason. Anyway, good talk.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 19 hours ago
I can assure you that the vast majority of users in my footprint, about 600 of them, use Chrome because we set it as default. Many people have no idea the difference between Chrome and edge. I am currently sitting at a desk where the user has opened Chrome, but it is not default.
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 18 hours ago
That’s why I used the specific phrasing “had it downloaded to their computer” instead of claiming that they were the ones to do it. You’ll notice that those users in your footprint also fall into a category of people which this won’t do a damn thing to influence.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I think you’re overestimating the degree to which the majority of users are willing to inconvenience themselves over a browser. If Microsoft announced tomorrow that Windows no longer supported any browser other than edge you wouldn’t see a mass migration to Linux. Instead you would see a healthy uptick in complaints about edge.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Maybe not mass migration, but that alone would probably add another percentage point or so to Linux’s market share, while others would just set about breaking the limitation/working around it within probably hours.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Unless enterprise is part of the equation. All those people are simply stuck using whatever thier company uses. Which is usually Edge and Chrome. With no option to change.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Most workplaces I’ve been at let me pick, but one did not let me use Firefox (only Chrome or Safari).
Weirdly one place didn’t block things but Brave wouldn’t install because the installer was actually a downloader and I couldn’t set it to use the corporate proxy. (Also don’t hate me, I don’t use Brave anymore and am not a fan, this was back in 2019.)
starlinguk@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The people who wouldn’t notice wouldn’t have changed their browser.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
You’re assuming they’re the ones who installed it in the first place.
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 19 hours ago
Ding ding ding