To increase the security of users’ personal data, in Windows 10 S you won’t be able to change the default browser and you won’t be able to install Chrome
Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 10 S, which is the streamlined version of the classic Windows 10 Pro, designed for schools and educational institutions has a big problem: you can’t change web browsers. We will therefore be forced to use Microsoft Edge and Bing for our searches on the Web.
This, to tell the truth, is not really the full picture of the situation. On Windows 10 S, in fact, you can download, via the Store, some additional browsers, such as Opera Mini for example. But these can never be set as the default browser. So if we need to open a link or a shortcut from an external app, it will always and only be opened with Microsoft Edge. Windows 10S being an operating system where all apps have to be downloaded from the Windows Store this aspect will make a difference. Store in which neither Google Chrome nor Mozilla Firefox are present.
A single default browser
Microsoft has defended itself by saying that this is a setting designed to protect users’ cybersecurity. But many have turned up their noses: being forced to use only one web browser as default is an unusual concept for loyal Windows users. Also because of the 20 countries where the launch of the new operating system is taking place, 18 are entirely monopolized by Google as far as the use of search engines is concerned. Also because Bing in the past has shown several shortcomings in searches made in non-English language. From Microsoft, however, they let it be known that all these problems have been resolved.
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