Sure it's a bit different if you scope it to "desktop operating systems", but I suspect that's too narrow for the meaning of dominant market position.ĮDIT: Also Edge is now based on Chromium, and doesn't seem to be attempting the "extend, extinguish" part with web standards, at least nowhere near to the extent that they did with IE. (And Android did have browser choice in the EU at one point!) Nowadays I'm guessing the most common OS to access the internet is Android, and I'm sure iOS, MacOS and ChromeOS take up a decent market share. If you think of the early 00s, the internet would be used on what, 97% Windows, a little bit of Mac, and the rest barely a rounding error? Without looking up the numbers, my guess is that - legally speaking - they comfortably no longer have the same "dominant market position" which was the reason they were under so much scrutiny in the first place. Microsoft seems to be doing a lot of things with Edge that surely would have been considered anti-competitive in the late 90s / early 00s. Of course, it remains to be seen if perhaps the end-user setting is in a registry key instead of some secret place. ![]() ![]() So, for SMBs there seems to be no way out besides manually touching each machine. Both options listed (the cloud policy service and group policy) explicitly apply only to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (not business). The user can change this in settings, but options being offered for admins to shut this off is lacking. They'll probably call the helpdesk screaming "why did you delete all my stuff?!?!" Users whose default has always been Chrome, and whose bookmarks and saved passwords are all in Chrome, will be highly confused by a very similar-looking browser that has none of their stuff. Sounds kind of neat.īut to make sure everyone experiences this, Outlook will also start ignoring your system's default web browser and opening links in Edge no matter what. ![]() The link, if you have it, is If you don't have it, here are the screenshots: īasically it's a new feature coming where when you click a link in an email in Outlook on Windows, it opens Edge with a copy of the email as a side panel. Microsoft seems to be testing the waters with this announcement, with some sort of phased reveal - it's only visible in one of the three tenants I have access to.
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