Microsoft has never had a primary focus on retail consumers.
The tools available on enterprise Windows platforms are vast compared to what an individual user can control on their standalone machine.
These intrusive new Edge features have not appeared on my corporate desktop that is joined to Active Directory, and they likely never will.
For individual consumers that prefer Chrome, it is likely time to install and learn a new operating system.
Google could take some action to stop this. There could be a legal approach involving antitrust, but Google has its own problems with that issue at the moment, and action would likely have to be coordinated with Mozilla.
Alternately, Google could force technologies into Chromium that compromise Microsoft, but are not sufficiently hostile to prompt a fork.
I have thought that a tight binding of Go into Chromium, similar to Mozilla's actions with Rust, might make the entire market rethink C# and the .NET CLR.
Kotlin can also be deployed at the JavaScript layer, and that would be an interesting platform to force-feed to Edge.
Google has likely already had extensive internal discussions on transforming Chromium into a poison pill for Windows.
The tools available on enterprise Windows platforms are vast compared to what an individual user can control on their standalone machine.
These intrusive new Edge features have not appeared on my corporate desktop that is joined to Active Directory, and they likely never will.
For individual consumers that prefer Chrome, it is likely time to install and learn a new operating system.
Google could take some action to stop this. There could be a legal approach involving antitrust, but Google has its own problems with that issue at the moment, and action would likely have to be coordinated with Mozilla.
Alternately, Google could force technologies into Chromium that compromise Microsoft, but are not sufficiently hostile to prompt a fork.
I have thought that a tight binding of Go into Chromium, similar to Mozilla's actions with Rust, might make the entire market rethink C# and the .NET CLR.
Kotlin can also be deployed at the JavaScript layer, and that would be an interesting platform to force-feed to Edge.
Google has likely already had extensive internal discussions on transforming Chromium into a poison pill for Windows.