Opera files a complaint on Microsoft tips that push you to use Edge

Microsoft used a variety of stuff To convince people to continue using Bing and Microsoft Edge’s default values in Windows over the years, including Chrome modification Download sites and use Malware popups. Now Opera is fed up with what he calls Microsoft’s “manipulative design tactics” and today file a complaint in the competition in Brazil, alleging that Microsoft uses anti -competitive practices to orient people to the use of edge.

“Microsoft is countering the competition from browsers on Windows to each turn,” explains Aaron McParlan, lawyer general of the opera. “First of all, browsers like Opera are locked significant preinstallation opportunities. And then Microsoft frustrates the ability of users to download and use alternative browsers.”

The opera complaint relies that Microsoft ignores the choice of the default browser of a user in various ways, the opening of PDF files or links in Outlook and the teams, at the opening of links via Windows features such as research or widgets. Opera also notes that Microsoft uses “banners and invasive messages discouraging users
Download alternative browsers at the same time they are looking for these browsers on board. “”

Opera filed its complaint in Brazil because it is one of the main markets of the company. “The opera is already a major success in Brazil: it is the third most popular browser in Brazil and has millions of loyal users in Brazil who actively choose it, despite Microsoft tactics,” said McParlan, in a press release The penis. “The complaint, which concerns the practices implemented on a global scale by Microsoft, presents an opportunity for Brazil to be a leader on this international issue.”

If the opera succeeds with its complaint, it wants Microsoft remedies such as authorizing PC manufacturers to preload alternative default browsers, a stop to block consumers by downloading other browsers and at the end of the “dark models that push users to Edge”. Opera also reveals that Microsoft demands that OEMs “provide S fashion peripherals as a condition for discounts on a Windows OS” license, which is another practice that it wishes to see prohibited.

Although the complaint is processed by the Brazilian competition authority, it is part of a broader effort from the opera to challenge Microsoft’s EDGE practices around the world. Opera unable The EU’s decision not to designate Microsoft Edge as a guard under its rules of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) last year. Microsoft has escaped this designation, but it still had to make changes to Windows on the EU markets in response to the DMA. These changes have led Stop disturbing Windows users on Edge.

“We believe that the driving of Microsoft, including the changes it has announced in Europe, is insufficient to achieve effective compliance with the DMA,” explains McParlan. “In this context, and in the context of its global efforts to guarantee the free and effective choice of consumers, Opera appealed before the EU prices to the European Commission’s decision not to appoint Edge as a” guardian “service under DMA.”

Microsoft has not only used Windows to urge people to switch to the past, but also the company Created a Google Usurbée user interface To try to convince Bing users, they used Google earlier this year. The search results looked a lot like Google, with a personalized search bar, a Google Doodle type image and a small text under the search bar, just like Google Search. Microsoft quickly killed the catch On its intermediate machining of Google once people started to notice it.

Opera also has a history of complaints against Microsoft’s browser behavior in Windows. He initially filed an antitrust complaint with the EU In 2007which Finally led On the voting screen of the browser being created – allowing Windows users to choose one of the 12 most popular browsers rather than defect in Internet Explorer. Microsoft must have kept the Windows browser choice screen for five years, but was A fine of $ 730 million in 2013 In order not to include the ballot in Windows 7 Service Pack 1.