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Is Microsoft pushing IE8 down people's throats?
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| In its effort to get users onto IE8, Microsoft might end up alienating its
| intended audience instead. For starters, Microsoft pushed out IE8 as a
| critical security patch via AutoUpdate, which caused some users to install
| the browser when they didn't want it. Plus, the standard settings make IE8
| the default browser, as has been Microsoft's custom, so some users not only
| ended up with a browser they didn't want, that browser became their default.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-pushing-ie8-down-peoples-throats-619
Salesforce CEO jabs at Microsoft cloud moves
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| Marc Benioff, a former Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) employee who founded
| Salesforce.com 10 years ago, rarely misses a chance to bash Microsoft as he
| spreads his gospel of cutting out software installed on users' computers and
| getting companies to use applications over the web.
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| "We are all about no software and they are all about software," Benioff said
| at a lunch in Seattle, when asked about Microsoft. "We are all about creating
| a whole new movement of cloud computing to move companies away from
| Microsoft's proprietary technology and monopolistic business practices."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSN1841648220090618
Recent:
Microsoft Tries to Force You to Use Bing
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| According to reports, a glitch in Internet Explorer 6 forced Bing onto users
| as the default search engine. Even when users manually altered their
| preferences, Bing emerged once again.
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| Search Engine Land contacted Microsoft about the bug. Microsoft acknowledged
| the problem and responded at 2:45 a.m. that the bug is now fixed. End of
| story, right?
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| Perhaps. But when you take Microsoft's history into consideration, the
| force-feeding of Bing almost makes sense. I am not suggesting Microsoft
| intentionally created this bug to get people hooked on Bing. I am saying
| there's a correlation between the problem at hand and problems Microsoft have
| encountered in the past.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/166024/microsoft_tries_to_force_you_to_use_bing.html
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