Quote:Windows continues to be the most popular desktop operating system. While it sometimes seems that Microsoft is only interested in using Windows as a vessel for pushing its other services, those that make the company money, it sometimes is introducing useful features to the operating system as well.

Users from the EEA, the European Economic Area, get several enhancements this year according to a new announcement on the official Windows Insider blog.

These changes put a break on Microsoft tactics to get you to use Microsoft Edge, web-based searches, or the Microsoft Store and improve usability significantly, but only if you live in one of the EEA countries.

Microsoft Edge: the major changes



Microsoft used varies strategies to get users to use its Edge browser. Some of them legitimate, others annoying or close to malware-like behavior.

One of the main points of criticism leveled at Microsoft was that it is difficult to set a default browser other than Edge and keep it the default.

This should not be a problem any longer for users in the EEA, as Microsoft Edge won't prompt users anymore to set it as the default browser, if you do not launch it.

So, if you ignore Edge, Windows and the browser should not push prompts into your face anymore to make it the default.

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