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Microsoft blocks Google Chrome & other browsers from Cortana in latest Windows 10 release

Microsoft says blocking third-party browsers & search providers improves user experience and is in keeping with how competitors act with their own digital assistants.

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Software_Lover2918d ago

"Microsoft says blocking third-party browsers & search providers improves user experience and is in keeping with how competitors act with their own digital assistants"

Straight to the point, plain and simple.

christocolus2918d ago (Edited 2918d ago )

Exactly. If others are doing it with their digital assistants then i see no reason why MS shouldn't do same.

badz1492918d ago

Yup, straight to the point, no BS! And they have all the right in the world to do what they want with what they own! Wish they are more honest like this in terms of everything else too!

Exare2917d ago

Or maybe don't be like those other guys and leave the choice up to the user? Ya know, like Windows has always done? That thing that makes it the #1 OS choice in the world? Freedom and customization?

I really regret upgrading to Windows 10. I wish I'd stuck with 8.1. At least I had control of my PC back then and felt like the OS was transparent and in my control. I could turn off Defender without it turning itself back on, I could update whenever I wanted to instead of Windows doing whatever it wanted... now I feel like I have to fight the OS for control over things I've always managed myself and that's an uncomfortable feeling. Windows is not OSX so they should really stop trying to be like them. The freedom is what makes Window's great and if you take that away then there's far less competitive advantage.

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ScorpiusX2918d ago

Sweet , that's right play their game and if they don't like it to freaking bad.

ScorpiusX2918d ago

You got a point to make cause if not take a hike

triverse2918d ago

I have to agree with you wholeheartedly here, castillo. I still have the same opinion of it here as I do when Google and Apple do it though- it is the end user that is hurt, not so much the corporations.

Ashlen2918d ago

Well all my fears about UWD becoming something Microsoft forces on developers to eliminate competition are now gone.

/sarcasm

Speed-Racer2918d ago

I don't see the problem here. Google Now doesn't allow me to use Firefox or Opera browsers when I search for stuff in it :/

triverse2918d ago

Other than people getting mad because MS is finally not playing nice with Google and Apple, there is not much to get upset about here. You don't see those same people mad because Google doesn't support Windows Phone with apps, or mad because as you said, you can't use third party browsers with other digital assistants.

ScorpiusX2918d ago

They all seem to get mad when MS starts playing by the rules established by Apple or Google .

freshslicepizza2917d ago

microsoft has a lot of hate from people online who will go out of their way to continually blackball them. even if they do the same thing amazon, apple, google and others are doing.

badz1492918d ago

@Speed-Racer

Well tbh, Chrome is the best and fastest browser out there. Why would you want any less?

Speed-Racer2917d ago

This literally has nothing to do with speed though. When I search for something via Google Now, the only browser it opens up in is Chrome. There is no other option. It just so happens it's acceptable because Android is a Google branded phone and we have come to accept this over the past few years. Now that Microsoft has limited itself to its own product for branding purposes, some people are making an uproar about it, which doesn't make sense because Apple and Google already do this.

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