The real crime here is downloading Chrome.

Firefox, for privacy protection.

Honest to god, the browser that wins is the one with the least bullshit popping up in my face when I open it

Being slightly forceful might work, but being too forceful has the opposite effect. I've seen a lot of people avoiding Edge not because of its technical demerits, or due to lack of knowledge, but because MS forces it so much down your throat that something "feels" off.

Somewhere there is a designer and or an engineer that was forced to make that stupid thing and they hated every minute of it.

One of their choices should have been: "This survey is exactly the reason I am going to a different browser. "

The Microsoft Edge marketing team is indicative of what’s wrong with Windows.

MS is getting so thirsty it's pathetic. All the Win 11 garbage and now this. It's sad really.

I always bypass ever launching Edge by installing with winget install mozilla.firefox

Or just install Linux.

Everyday is the perfect time to switch to Linux and Firefox. Come back to computing!

I have to use Windows for work, and every single day, I open Outlook and I'm greeted with "WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY, please share your data with us." And every day I say "Don't share optional data." Clearly there's a fucking problem here.

Who wants to use any product or service this desperate to try and keep you.

But not Firefox? Lol

with the added trust of Microsoft

That's rich.

Desperate ex girlfriend, Microsoft.

I swear Microsoft, particularly the Windows and Edge divisions, have consultants on retainer directly from Hell - specialists in making things absolutely infuriating for no particularly good reason.

i don't trust chrome OR whatever browser microsoft wants me to use.

also to say i 'trust' firefox would also be an overstatement, but you could fairly describe it as, "I distrust firefox less" than either google or microsoft.

The article doesn't count the popups you get when you try to change your default browser

I’ve uninstalled Chrome on all computers in my home. Back to Firefox with Edge as a backup browser if needed.

Thirstily?

I dont really use windows often outside of my work devices these days, but even if I did I wouldnt use edge as a primary browser based on how things rolled with IE6 and active X.

Yeah yeah youre a new friendlier Microsoft, webstandards and html5 are more locked in, and your browser is a chrome fork, and you "<3 Linux". I remember what you are and how you locked down the web when you had a chance. Personally I dont use chrome for the same reason given the direction google has been heading.

But to answer "why not Edge?": because you spent the better part of the last few decades sucking and amoral companies dont deserve the benefit of good faith.

What does Microsoft gain out of pushing Edge so hard. It's running on Chromium now, they're not going to break people's Google habits, they don't even charge for it.

So why the unwavering push?

I never had this problem to put Vivaldi or any other browser instead of EDGE. Maybe i'm still with W10, maybe the last Windows which can be tamed. The only thing is that in Windows it isn't enough to declare the browser as default in the browser settings, you must do it also in the Windows default app settings too, but after this you'll never seen EDGE again, at least in W10.