Microsoft promotes its own Edge browser when users search for alternatives

A leopard never changes its spots, as Microsoft's recent behavior that saw the tech giant aggressively promote its own product, Edge, when people search for other browsers, seems to prove.

Microsoft has a long and inglorious history of anti-competitive behavior, particularly in the early years of personal computing when it absolutely dominated both desktop and server markets with the Windows operating system, and was in the habit of bundling its now discarded browser, Internet Explorer (IE), with the OS, which regulators both in the US and in Europe saw as anti-competitive behavior.

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A lot of time has passed since, and Microsoft has changed focus from Windows to other lucrative segments of the tech market, cozying up to the free and open source companies and communities that it once tried to destroy, and is now "merely" using them to generate more profit.

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