Changes are coming from Microsoft in response to the Digital Markets Act (Digital Markets ActThe law requires the company to allow Edge to be uninstalled, immediately remove Bing results from Windows search, and various other things that Microsoft doesn't like.
New features announced Monday for Microsoft Windows users in the European Economic Area (EEA) (EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) include the option to uninstall the Microsoft Store and the removal of additional annoyances or prompts that ask users to set Microsoft Edge as the default browser unless they choose to open it.
Additionally, setting up a different browser, such as Chrome, Firefox, Brave, or something else, will pin it to the taskbar unless the user chooses not to.
While setting a different browser default directly associates it with some types of links and files like https and .html, users in the EEA will now see it applied to more types like “read”, ftp and .svg.
The changes to the browser's default settings are live already for some users in the beta channel and will be rolled out widely to Windows 10 and Windows 11 in July.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
MS has been doing this since Windows 95. Every time in every version, the same thing.