The test version of Windows 10 interrupted putting in rival web browsers and promoted Microsoft Edge instead as "safer."

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Microsoft has apparently reversed course around the Windows 10 test feature that sought to warn people from installing Chrome, Firefox and additional browsers that challenged Microsoft's own Edge.

An innovative new "fast-ring" test type of Windows, Insider Preview Build 17760, not any longer interrupts setting rival browsers, a CNET test shows.

The 2009 week, a young test version of Windows would warn many people tried to install the Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Vivaldi browsers, "You already have Microsoft Edge -- the safer, faster browser for Windows 10." The dialog box presented two options: "Open Microsoft Edge" -- the default -- and "Install anyway."

The feature raised some hackles and cut back memories of Microsoft's strong-arm tactics promoting its old I . e . browser contained in the first browser wars two full decades ago. But Microsoft isn't alone in these tactics: Google promotes its Chrome browser as faster and far better people who visit its very own websites in addition to other browsers.

Microsoft didn't immediately interact to a request comment on the change of direction.

This agency is struggling to reclaim just a shadow of an dominance it once held featuring its Internet Explorer browser. For some time, Google's Chrome has steadily eaten away at IE's share of usage, based upon analytics firm StatCounter, and Microsoft's Edge hasn't even outpaced IE despite its more modern design.

Normal, IE dominance got Microsoft struggling, with the US Justice Department as well European Commission dragging this company through antitrust proceedings. The browser and os in this handset markets look different now, though, with Microsoft Windows absent on touch screen phones and with Chrome dominant on personal computers.

Edge is accountable to 2 percent of usage today vary 3 percent for IE and 60 percent for Chrome, nevertheless its usage share has actually dropped a part of a percentage point fairly a year ago, as indicated by StatCounter.

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