To date, users have been able to work around this anticompetitive behavior by using utilities like EdgeDeflector. (And access back-end Microsoft services like Bing and MSN.) Instead, the user must manually undertake incredibly ponderous steps to make a non-Edge browser the default in Windows 11, and even then, certain actions, like clicking a news story in Widgets or searching the web from the taskbar/Start, will still launch Microsoft Edge. It will not.Īs I wrote on Friday, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 build to Windows Insiders in the Dev channel last week that blocks workarounds to the bizarre default web browser functionality in this OS.Īs originally designed, Windows 11 does not allow rival web browsers to set themselves as the default with a single click as with previous Windows releases. Bad news for anyone who hoped that Microsoft would do the right thing when it comes to respecting user choice in Windows 11.
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