Microsoft’s modifications in response to the Digital Markets Act already included permitting Home windows machines within the areas it covers to uninstall Edge and take away Bing outcomes from Home windows search, however now the record is rising in some significant methods. New options introduced Monday for Microsoft Home windows customers within the European Financial Space (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) embrace the choice to uninstall the Microsoft Retailer and keep away from additional nags or prompts asking them to set Microsoft Edge because the default browser until they select to open it.
That final one is one I’d prefer to have available in america, and in accordance with Microsoft, it’s already reside within the EEA, beginning with Edge model 137.0.3296.52 that rolled out on Might twenty ninth.
Moreover, setting a special browser, like Chrome, Firefox, Courageous, or one thing else, will pin it to the taskbar until the person chooses to not. Whereas setting a special browser default already attaches it to a couple hyperlink and file varieties like https and .html, now customers within the EEA will see it apply to extra varieties like “learn,” ftp, and .svg. The default browser modifications are reside for some customers within the beta channel and are set to roll out broadly on Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 in July.
Microsoft additionally defined that even after eradicating the Retailer app from Begin and Settings, “Apps put in and distributed from the Microsoft Retailer will proceed to get updates,” and it could actually at all times be reinstalled.
Different modifications talked about embrace routinely enabling third-party apps to add their internet search leads to Home windows Search upon set up, and the choice to maneuver search suppliers round based mostly on person choice. With updates rolling out in “early June,” the Microsoft Bing app, in addition to the Widgets Board and Lock Display, will open internet content material with the default browser as an alternative.
