Aeshi said:
This is what I was thinking, thought maybe MS should confront Google on that rather than just deleting a browser that will most likely be reinstalled within a minute or two of being deleted.
Yeah. I would also if I was Microsoft. In fact, I would try and deconstruct Chrome and find out if it DOES have these kinds of programs in it's source code.
Generic Gamer said:
Yeah, that or an extension was dodgy and MSE deleted the entire browser rather than the extension since 3000 Chrome users isn't a huge proportion of them.
OT: Oh come on people, Microsoft wouldn't purposefully do this, how dumb do you have to be to think this is a viable tactic for them?
Indeed not, however people thinking this is a viable business tactic from Microsoft doesn't shock me either. A lot of gamers, especially here, really detest Microsoft, so when they get the chance to bash them for anything that sounds bad, they leap at the chance.
Anything to make them feel good, even though they likely didn't consider the possibility that something of this nature could be true. If Chrome was tagged for this kind of thing, and the browser was deleted in response, why not investigate the idea of a keylogger or built-in spyware instead of writing off Microsoft as the Big Bad Wolf trying to take down the three Little Pigs of Internet browsers?
