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| Mozilla CEO Chris Beard calls the Windows 10 settings "confusing" and "hard to navigate" |
WINDOWS 10 has been slammed by Mozilla CEO Chris Beard, who criticised Microsoft over a "very disturbing aspect of Windows 10."
Microsoft last week rolled out its final operating system release, Windows 10.
"It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. "These changes aren’t unsettling to us because we’re the organisation that makes Firefox. "They are unsettling because there are millions of users who love Windows and who are having their choices ignored, and because of the increased complexity put into everyone’s way if and when they choose to make a choice different than what Microsoft prefers.
Windows 10 made a PORN SLIDESHOW of mortified PC owner's hidden... "We strongly urge you to reconsider your business tactic here and again respect people’s right to choice and control of their online experience by making it easier, more obvious and intuitive for people to maintain the choices they have already made through the upgrade experience. "Please give your users the choice and control they deserve in Windows 10." In a statement on the matter, a Microsoft spokeswoman said that Windows 10 was designed to provide a simple upgrade experience for users.
Available for free to Windows 7 and Windows 8 owners in some 190 countries, the overall response to the new operating system has been positive.
But the launch has not been without issues – notably some concerning security features, sluggish boot-up times, broken wifi, porn slideshows and hidden costs.
And now Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has slammed Microsoft over the new upgrade, which he has labelled a "dramatic step backwards".
The Mozilla, the non-profit firm behind the Firefox web browser, has criticised the "Express" installation settings offered by Microsoft when customers upgrade to Windows 10.
Choosing this default option effectively “wipes out user defaults and file associations, leaving behind Microsoft’s own applications.”
As a result, most users of the 14 million people who upgraded to Windows 10 within the first 24 hours, will now have Microsoft Edge as their default web browser – no matter what program they had previously been using in Windows 7 or Windows 8.
And switching back to using Google Chrome, Firefox, or another third-party web browser is "confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost," Mr Beard claims.
Mozilla CEO Chris Beard claims his firm reached out to Microsoft during the development of the operating system to try and rectify the issue.
In an open letter published on a Mozilla official blog, the CEO laments:
"I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.
"We appreciate that it’s still technically possible to preserve people’s previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult.
I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10
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| Microsoft has been criticised for wiping the web browser user defaults during the Windows 10 install |
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