Image finally uploaded. Sorry about that.
[Edit. Fixed the headline a bit, due to my poor phrasing]
Edge has always been Chrome with a Microsoft badge on.
I wonder if it’s an early response to the talk of breaking up Google and Chrome. MS gets more people onboarded to Edge and Google still gets your browser level metrics.
photograph of monitor
Does OP know about screenshots (PrtScn or Snipping Tool through WindowsKey-Shift-S) or alt text? 🤦
Does it matter that much in the context?
alt text for accessibility?
That one’s fair
That one’s fair
Super key*
Right. And then you take a picture of the printout of the emailed PDF on a wooden table, we know the old ways.
i haven’t worked in a business envorenment in a while does this come before or after you fax it to your recipient
Both is safer, but it’s best to check with your manager.
ShareX is the way
I don’t really understand the issue here. Why does anyone care if you can sign into Google services on Edge?
It’s not the ability that’s bothersome (that part is fine, and has been there). It’s the fact that this is part of the first boot screen you see on Edge now, with dark patterns to get you to do it.
Oh sure, that makes sense. I never use Edge except when I’m testing a windows server VM.
Because my precious data bellyachers & tinfoil hatters basically.
Am I the only one who wonders how to get this in Edge? I like my shit integrated.
Around Lemmy, your kind is quite rare.
This place naturally accumulates privacy advocates that are indeed bothered by this.
We don’t do that around here. Jpeg
True or not, I’m one email away from total freedom.
Just wonder about anti spam measures.
True or not, I’m one email away from total freedom.
uh can you expand on this?
I have 1 gmail, and their anti spam has usually been very effective, I have to find some other email with an effective anti spam before jumping the boat.
do you have another email like proton or just your Gmail
Yeah 1 proton which is very clean but I use it only for serious things, I need another one for all the “daily crap”.
ah thank you for the expanded info. I’m in a similar situation and would like alternatives…
I doubt that
I wouldn’t be surprised if Google doesn’t consent to any of this
To put it into perspective: if Leibniz was right and this is truely the best of all worlds, be happy that you don’t live in any of the other, more shittier timelines. Like the one where Apple sells monitor stands for $1000. Oh, wait…
Linux Mint + Vivaldi. Sorted.
That’s exactly what I’m typing this on.
Mint yes*, Vivaldi no.
* if it comes preinstalled. 99% of device owners would be overwhelmed by doing that themselves.
What’s wrong with Vivaldi?
People will complain about everything, but never just switch to Firefox, huh? You can’t be helped then. There is just the one browser (and a couple of forks of it).
You’re making a lot of assumptions here. I use Firefox. But business do not.
Often people have jobs which involve computers, which force them to use whatever software the 90 year old running the company thinks is appropriate.
That wouldn’t help anything since the problem is Microsoft forcing Edge
One could Possibly switch to Linux or other non-Microsoft OS to fix that
Indian CEOs at their finest.
Racism intensifies
Edge has been Chromium based for a while now. Hell, a lot of the 365 stuff will only work in Edge or Chrome.
It’s wild how corporations are so openly cool with paying license fees to give everything away to Microsoft.
I would have told them to pound sand as soon as they tried to push the 365 and Azure shit if I was a business.
a lot of the 365 stuff will only work in Edge or Chrome.
Can you give a few examples?
Anecdotally, I use 365 on Firefox at work and haven’t noticed browser specific issues yet.
Trying to sign into work stuff will throw MCAS unless I’m in Edge or Chrome.
Gross. So they’ve swiss cheesed themselves for Microsoft too…
Booted my desktop since my work computers windows and I game mostly on my steam deck, and holy shit is Manjaro fast as hell compared to windows in 2025. Like I’m so used to clicking and waiting and in Manjaro you click and it’s just there.
Man fuck windows.
Yeah, just started using W11 for work and it’s insane how often I need to wait for character to buffer in after I typed something.
I shouldn’t be faster than my computer in this day and age, and yet here we are.
I’m currently horrified how my (IT illiterate) employer said we need to update all our 20+ laptops to Win11 now. Consumer laptops that barely run Win10.
To be clear, I’m not the IT guy here, though I do sometimes help out.
Same boat here. W10 is EOL. A crapton of good-enough laptops are about to go into the landfills all over your world. What a disgrace.
Yeah. Or they’ll go through with it, and then realize later that they “need” to buy new ones.
Maybe I can still convince them to switch to Linux. We’re not dependent on any MS or Windows only products.
I mean this in the most sincere way possible: I hope you succeed in this endeavor.
Edit: Autocorrect went crazy lol
You do though. W10 EOL is October, and you’re not gonna move to Linux, sadly.
What am I missing, hasn’t this been around for like months and months now?
Microsoft is is bed with Google now,
[Edit. Fixed the headline a bit, due to my poor phrasing]lol
How can we be sure this is genuine? I can see there is an opt out option. Thats very unMicrosoft like
😭
What’s the opt-out? “Continue without”? Same options as the ms account screen before it.
Try and continue without a Microsoft account when installing windows 11
Possible on pro (at least, for now). But, not on home last time I checked (which, admittedly, has been about a year). My daily non-work computer is not, and will never be, windows. But work is work.
![Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was [in bed with Google]. This timeline sucks.](https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/773d3464-6a91-414d-8ef7-3f56139f5faa.jpeg){kind=link}