Browser Choice Alliance
@browserchoicealliance.org
The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the idea that consumers should have the right to choose, keep, and use their preferred browser as the default on Windows without that choice being undermined.
"Microsoft can do better than this." A recent @techradar.com article covered the BCA’s consumer survey of 2,000 US adults who own a Windows PC, and the results are undeniable. Read the article: bit.ly/4zoVAaU
Windows 11 survey finds default browser selection is 'challenging' with Microsoft continually pushing Edge on people — and it's not good enough frankly
Survey underlines how Microsoft keeps pushing Edge on Windows 11 users — and this needs to change.
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72% of Windows users who tried changing default browsers in the past 1-2 years reported encountering challenges. Our recent consumer survey underscores the obstacles PC users experience when attempting to switch to their preferred browser. Learn more: bit.ly/4wzkAtl
Survey Finds Browser Choice on Windows Undermines User Expectations - Browser Choice Alliance
Despite a widespread belief in browser choice among Windows users, more than 2 in 3 encounter challenges changing default browsers. The Browser Choice Alliance (BCA), a coalition of browsers advocatin...
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"Microsoft has made a calculated decision to get aggressive." In a new blog, Gene Burrus highlights how the company leverages its dominant operating system to get ahead, rather than to create an optimal experience for its users. Read it here: bit.ly/4pYGkgr
Browsers and Earnings Statements
A recently published report by Mozilla surveys and highlights the many ways around the world that Microsoft has elected to defy its customers’ wishes with respect to choice of Internet browser and unf...
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It’s not a glitch: Microsoft can override your default browser without your knowledge or permission. This deliberately manipulates how millions of people worldwide access and experience the internet.
Tech influencers voiced their frustrations with Microsoft’s deceptive tactics in a recent @linusmediagroup.com video. Watch it here: bit.ly/4wZrIzY
Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report
Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report
Report finds regional differences, especially outside the EEA, but it's still a dark tale claiming user manipulation
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Microsoft overrides your preferences like that one colleague who 'just made a few small edits' to your finished report — and somehow changed everything without your permission.
Even tech influencers are noticing Microsoft’s deceptive, anti-consumer behaviors. In a recent @linusmediagroup.com video, @linussebastian.bsky.social notes Microsoft "doesn’t take no for an answer." Watch it here: bit.ly/44uXc4D
In response to the CMA's eventual Strategic Market Status (SMS) designation of Microsoft’s business software system, over 25+ organizations are voicing their concerns around Microsoft’s anti-competitive practices, highlighting broad support for intervention. Read more: bit.ly/4ydLYzd
Clear support for Microsoft SMS designation and browser issues at the forefront in CMA responses - Browser Choice Alliance
Some 25 organisations (the vast majority of respondents), including the BCA, support the CMA’s eventual Strategic Market Status (“SMS”) designation of Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, and vari...
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Your OS has no business interfering with your browser choice. Learn more: bit.ly/4vhHDs0
No matter where you go or what you do, Microsoft pop-ups just won’t go away.
Recent coverage highlighting the CMA’s investigation into #Microsoft amplifies its history of utilizing manipulative tactics to influence users' choice of internet browser, and how this behavior has the potential to carry over to the #AI space. Read more: bit.ly/4uUQ0td
CMA probes Microsoft business software over browser choice
Users could face less browser choice in workplaces as the UK competition regulator examines whether Microsoft steers business software customers towards Edge.
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Industry voices aren’t willing to let #Microsoft continue with its deceptive practices towards consumers. Neither are we. The BCA is ready to support the move towards a Strategic Market Status designation, as highlighted by @theregister.com. Read more: bit.ly/4xOjUlK
Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them
Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition
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Changing your browser shouldn’t feel like a day at Macrofirm.
Browsers are a part of everyday life, and allow users to access the web. When a user’s choice is disrespected, it negatively affects the user experience. Everyone deserves the right to choose: bit.ly/4uBUbKp
ICYMI: Our open letter to Satya Nadella directly calls on Microsoft to respect users’ choice in selecting their preferred browser. Read it on @politico.com: bit.ly/3Qwy9uB
Satya Nadella — we have a message for you. Read our open letter to @microsoft.com here: bit.ly/4e1gcw1
Dear Microsoft, Enough is Enough - Browser Choice Alliance
Dear Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO,Our global coalition of innovative developers promotes genuine competition and users’ freedom of choice. It’s time for Microsoft to do the same.As browser developers,...
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Hmmm looks like a recent update (assuming a windows update??) automatically switched edge to my default browser and also set the xbox app to automatically launch on startup with no way for me to change the setting (when I click the option, nothing happens) seems bad, to me
The BCA welcomes the CMA investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem — an important step towards addressing Microsoft’s longstanding anticompetitive behaviors. Read our full statement here: bit.ly/4dYa3Sk
The BCA welcomes the CMA investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem - Browser Choice Alliance
This investigation is an important step towards addressing Microsoft’s longstanding practice of improperly leveraging its ubiquitous Windows operating system and productivity apps into adjacent activi...
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Browsers are the gateway to the internet and a key enabler of other important services, such as AI and productivity tools. That’s why we’re fighting for users’ ability to choose their own browser — to rightfully control their experience online. Learn more: bit.ly/4to55mV
Your browser, your choice. At least that’s what the experience should be. We’re holding Microsoft accountable for failing to respect user choice and instead, acting in its own interest. Learn more: bit.ly/4tjUMAM
"It makes it harder for alternatives to compete when a company uses its reach and control to steer people back into its own products." Microsoft continues using dark patterns that prioritize its own interests over user experience. Read @mozilla.org's article: bit.ly/4cqTn4e
Old habits die hard: Microsoft tries to limit our options, this time with AI | The Mozilla Blog
Microsoft recently announced it’s pulling back Copilot from several of its core Windows apps — Photos, Notepad, the Snipping Tool, and Widgets. Rol
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Microsoft is being hit with a second investigation from the CMA on reports of limiting competition by charging licensing fees when its services were used on rival platforms. Read the @reuters.com story here: bit.ly/4bXWHok
Microsoft faces second major UK investigation over cloud licensing
Britain's competition regulator said on Tuesday it would again investigate Microsoft’s software‑licensing practices in the cloud market as part of a broader probe, months after declining to act on ear...
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Our goal is simple: It shouldn’t be this difficult to use your browser of choice. Learn more: bit.ly/4bXAwyE
We applaud the CMA's decision to open an investigation into Microsoft’s business software, including Windows OS, productivity and other software. Read our official statement: bit.ly/4sdVoqd
The BCA welcomes CMA investigation into Microsoft market practices - Browser Choice Alliance
We applaud the CMA’s decision to open an investigation into Microsoft’s business software, including Microsoft’s must-have Windows OS and productivity and other software (Word, Excel, Teams, Copilot e...
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The BCA stands for a digital world where everyone is free to choose the browser that best serves them. Learn more about what we stand for — and why it matters: bit.ly/4to55mV
Just when you thought you’ve successfully changed your default web browser, Windows opens the next link in Edge. It’s time Microsoft is held accountable for continuing to disrespect user choice.
The Browser Choice Alliance applauds the @imco.europarl.europa.eu motion to require Microsoft to provide “effective user choice and a fair and contestable environment for third-party providers” on its Windows PC operating system under the DMA. Learn more: bit.ly/47pxtfU
BCA urges decisive action against Microsoft following MEPs’ concerns over Windows competition - Browser Choice Alliance
The Browser Choice Alliance welcomes calls by the European Parliament’s Internal Market (IMCO) Committee to require Microsoft to provide “effective user choice and a fair and contestable environment f...
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