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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 test is stirring up a familiar fight: how far should a platform owner go when promoting its own browser? A new beta feature appears to make Microsoft Edge launch automatically at sign-in unless users actively opt out, a move that critics say crosses the line from...

Microsoft is finally acknowledging a complaint Windows users have voiced for years: Windows 11 feels too eager to sell, suggest, and nudge. In a notable shift, one of the company’s engineering leaders says a “calmer and more chill OS with fewer upsells” is now a goal, signaling that Microsoft...

Windows 11’s problems aren’t mysterious: they’re the predictable result of years of feature-first product design, gradually eroding user control and reliability until everyday PC tasks feel like workarounds. The remedy Microsoft is now promising for 2026—focusing engineering on performance...

Mozilla has given users a one-click way to tell the AI revolution to stay out of their browser: starting with Firefox 148, rolling out February 24, the desktop browser adds an AI Controls panel with a single “Block AI enhancements” master switch that disables current and future generative AI...

Windows 11 is technically solid — fast on modern hardware, secure by default, and the beneficiary of years of engineering improvements — yet an increasingly loud chorus of Windows users say they no longer trust Microsoft. What began as gripes about single features has hardened into a broader...