Some of the top browser makers around have issued a letter to the European Commission (EC) alleging that Microsoft gives the Edge browser an unfair advantage and should be subject to EU tech rules.

A letter seen by Reuters, sent by Vivaldi, Waterfox, and Wavebox, and supported by a group of web developers, also supports Opera’s move to take the EC to court over its decision to exclude Microsoft Edge from being subject to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

As Edge comes pre-installed by default on Windows machines, users must navigate the Microsoft offering in order to download their browser of choice. The letter states that, “No platform independent browser can aspire to match Edge’s unparalleled distribution advantage on Windows. Edge is, moreover, the most important gateway for consumers to download an independent browser on Windows PCs.”

  • Wrench@lemmy.world
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    So Google establishing a now industry standard of evergreen versioning so that they could iterate relatively quickly on features, rather than have to maintain compatibility with years old versions, and iterating quickly on their own major websites - is a bad thing?

    Right.

    Yeah, let’s go back to having to maintain terrible legacy browsers that behaved completely differently for the rest of time.

    Edit - rofl. Bunch of revisionists here on Lemmy.

    https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-201001-202409

    EdgeHtml released 2015.

    But sure, Google has been doing shitty things lately so let’s retroactively change history and make Microsoft the browser hero? Right.

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      On “features” they would like to see. Most of the time features that make it difficult to block tracking and keep their advertising business going. The web is all about communication standards between different programs and this includes the joint adoption of new standards and respect for the existing standards.

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        And Google established a lot of the standards that were both open and long living.

        Yeah, Google has strayed far from the “Do no evil” philosophy in the last decade. But this rewriting of history to praise IE and demonfy Chrome from that era is ridiculous.

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            Because we should wipe away 2 decades of history and pretend the next thing is flawless on release?

            Edge came in with a freight train of baggage, and didn’t make it. It’s absurd to frame this otherwise.

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      ah yes, the google white knights. here to completely misconstrue the argument to make everyone but google the bad guy.

      because thats what a trillion dollar company that threatens to seize control of the internet needs.

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        Rofl. So let’s white wash the browser history before chrome, then. Back when IE reigned supreme. You must either be too young or not in the industry to champion that.

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          Dude. Seriously. Genuinely.

          Are you on drugs?

          Or are you the victim of a mental derangement?

          Because we need an explanation for this complete divorce from reality you seem to be suffering from.