While many people might be happily making the jump to Windows 10 on their respective notebooks, tablets and desktops, there is at least one person who is fuming about the situation, and that would be Mozilla CEO Chris Beard. Chris Beard published an open letter addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, where he aired his grievances that Microsoft decided to remote “choice and control” from the user, and even admitted how his team wanted to work things out with Microsoft, but it ended up without “any meaningful progress.”
Basically, Beard’s main bone of contention is that when users make the jump to Windows 10, the new operating system would cajole users to jump aboard Microsoft’s latest Edge browser for a new Internet experience. While it remains technically possible for one to be able to retain one’s previous settings and defaults, Beard is convicted that Microsoft has cleverly put aside these settings so deep within the operating system, it is not easy for the average PC user to access them.
Beard also wrote in a separate post, “Sometimes we see great progress, where consumer products respect individuals and their choices. However, with the launch of Windows 10, we are deeply disappointed to see Microsoft take such a dramatic step backward. It is bewildering to see, after almost 15 years of progress bolstered by significant government intervention, that with Windows 10, user choice has now been all but removed.”