Users from other countries are outraged. Why the hell is it just Europe?
Microsoft will soon allow users in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway to reopen all links in Windows using their default browser, rather than forcing them to use the Edge browser.
As the company announced on Friday, with the release of the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 for the Dev channel, links from Windows system apps will no longer open using Microsoft Edge, ignoring the default browser selected by the user. But not for all countries.
While this may seem inconsequential to many, forcing the Edge browser to be promoted to the detriment of the default browser annoys many Windows users.
You can find this strange behavior, for example, by using a web search in the Start menu and clicking on any result. However, the list of actions leading to an annoying result is much more extensive.
Windows 10 and 11 include many features that display links on the web. For example, help articles in system settings and Windows applications, the same search results in the Start menu. When you click on these embedded links, Windows forces them to open in Microsoft Edge, regardless of the default browser you set up.
Earlier this year, the company also confirmed that web links from Outlook emails and Teams chats now also open in Edge "to improve and optimize product usage."
The imposition of Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 users annoyed some people so much that they even created special tools (for example, EdgeDeflector) designed to force the use of the default browser by replacing all system links "microsoft-edge://" with "https://".
However, Microsoft noticed the attempts of independent developers and made changes to the OS, as a result of which this solution no longer works in the latest builds of Windows 10 and 11.
So far, Microsoft has not explained why only European users are allowed to open all links using the default browser, while everyone else should continue to put up with the company's highly controversial policy.
Perhaps the decision concerns the local legislation of these states, or they were simply selected as a control group for testing the function.
The innovation was very favorably received by users in Europe, but Windows users from other countries are now even more disappointed with the decision-making policy at Microsoft.
"How do I make Windows 11 think that I'm from the EU?",-asked one of the Internet users in the discussion of this innovation. To which he was quickly told that, perhaps, if he has to go to some tricks to get the system working correctly, maybe it's time to try a new OS altogether?
The offer is fair, although Windows for many has long been a matter of comfort and habit. It is a pity that Microsoft has such a controversial policy, regardless of the opinion of millions of users of their product around the world.
Microsoft will soon allow users in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway to reopen all links in Windows using their default browser, rather than forcing them to use the Edge browser.
As the company announced on Friday, with the release of the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 for the Dev channel, links from Windows system apps will no longer open using Microsoft Edge, ignoring the default browser selected by the user. But not for all countries.
While this may seem inconsequential to many, forcing the Edge browser to be promoted to the detriment of the default browser annoys many Windows users.
You can find this strange behavior, for example, by using a web search in the Start menu and clicking on any result. However, the list of actions leading to an annoying result is much more extensive.
Windows 10 and 11 include many features that display links on the web. For example, help articles in system settings and Windows applications, the same search results in the Start menu. When you click on these embedded links, Windows forces them to open in Microsoft Edge, regardless of the default browser you set up.
Earlier this year, the company also confirmed that web links from Outlook emails and Teams chats now also open in Edge "to improve and optimize product usage."
The imposition of Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 users annoyed some people so much that they even created special tools (for example, EdgeDeflector) designed to force the use of the default browser by replacing all system links "microsoft-edge://" with "https://".
However, Microsoft noticed the attempts of independent developers and made changes to the OS, as a result of which this solution no longer works in the latest builds of Windows 10 and 11.
So far, Microsoft has not explained why only European users are allowed to open all links using the default browser, while everyone else should continue to put up with the company's highly controversial policy.
Perhaps the decision concerns the local legislation of these states, or they were simply selected as a control group for testing the function.
The innovation was very favorably received by users in Europe, but Windows users from other countries are now even more disappointed with the decision-making policy at Microsoft.
"How do I make Windows 11 think that I'm from the EU?",-asked one of the Internet users in the discussion of this innovation. To which he was quickly told that, perhaps, if he has to go to some tricks to get the system working correctly, maybe it's time to try a new OS altogether?
The offer is fair, although Windows for many has long been a matter of comfort and habit. It is a pity that Microsoft has such a controversial policy, regardless of the opinion of millions of users of their product around the world.
