![]() Would DOCSIS 3.0 and version 3. Not too far, the apples that fell from that tree, are now our favorite CableTV and Internet Service Providers, and probably our favorite cell-phone carriers too. This should remind us of what happened to AT&T back in the early 80's with the breakup of the Bell System into the "Baby Bells". Why ?īut these are unchartered waters and I may even start to sound really stupid here.īy the way good computer history there Bevi. Prime examples, Dropbox and GoogleDrive once the shared PDF opens in your default mobile browser, for example, just a fraction of a second later, a message appear to download their app or to continue to their website it won't open natively in the Adobe Reader app automatically.įor the average residential-market users, they fall prey and end up paying for this service instead of just opting to manually download each time and opening in Acrobat Reader. Now mostly every popular linux distribution out there has to fall in-line with Microsoft's development cycle style (not to mention the growing backdoors at the kernel level and rootkits with each stupid upgrade).Įvery cloud storage service out there that has their own PDF viewers and handlers are doing similar practices. ![]() Yup! Just like they've been doing in the linux world too for the past 15 years. It's a big problem for accessibililty users They lose all ability to read and access the PDF file in Edge because Edge isn't fully accessible. ![]() I think this PDF hijacking is similar: MS is ignoring the customer's preference settings and instead opening PDFs in its own program, Edge, rather than Acrobat or any other brand of PDF reading software. Same with PostScript fonts: they wouldn't work on Windows because of a near-hidden setting burried a dozen levels deep into Windows' options settings. Programs like WordPerfect (the then market-leading word processor) and Lotus (the marketing leading spreadsheet) were wiped out and MS's Excel and Word took over our desktops. Was due to some hidden encoding "hooks" MS put into the Windows OS that crashed everyone else's software. ![]() Next, check that your Acrobat plug-in is set as the default PDF viewer in your content settings for Chrome. If you haven’t yet, visit the Chrome Web Store to download the extension. IIRC, didn't the FTC slap MS with a lawsuit in the early 1990s for simimlar practices?Īt that time, competing programs couldn't function correctly on Windows, crashing and unusable when used by the general population. If Acrobat Reader is already the default PDF viewer on your computer, you may have already been prompted to download the plug-in. Microsoft's hijacking of PDF files is not only unethical, but could also be a violation of US anti-trust/unfair trade practices. ![]()
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