They f'd up 11 days since Microsoft f'd up
Decided 0.5 Vistas Stood by it well documented Jun 3, 2020 their #27 worst decided on record

The new Edge arrived uninvited, by design

Microsoft force-installed Chromium Edge via Windows Update in 2020

↳ caused by Automatic Edge delivery via Windows Update (June 2020)

The market's verdict: +2.6% on MSFT in the week after.

Status: Stood by it. Working as intended™

What actually happened

In June 2020, Microsoft began automatically delivering the new Chromium Edge through Windows Update to Windows 10 machines, and later to Windows 7 and 8.1, replacing the old Edge whether anyone had asked for it and with no uninstall. The company that spent the nineties in court over a browser bundle had rediscovered the technique, this time with a decade of antitrust settlement behind it and a support page explaining that this was different. The browser is good. The delivery method was a flashback.

This one is well documented.

They did it more than once

Before that: Microsoft won the browser war and stopped making browsers (Aug 2001)

First they bundled it, then they forced it. Same instinct, twenty years apart.

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  • Impact

↳ caused by Automatic Edge delivery via Windows Update (June 2020)

Timeline

  • Jun 3, 2020 Stood by it Microsoft stood by it.