Microsoft abandoned an online document which was ostensibly on the restoration of those who wanted to uninstall the Edge browser, but in fact, was an attempt to dissuade those who plan to delete the application to stick to this.
We reported on the “uninstall document” last week, which was in the form of a web page which, based on research results, seemed to be closer to the deletion of your PC.
However, during navigation actually to the page, it turned out that the document was to compare Edge to Google Chrome and boast the virtues of the first.
When it made the headlines, there were a lot of people who are not impressed by this heavy persuasion attempt – not surprising – and now Microsoft has put the web page, as Windows noticed.
When you try to visit this page now, you are redirected to the Microsoft Edge portal, which is always to promote the advantages of the browser – but unpretentious that this could help you delete the edge (and no mention of chrome nowhere, Nor, it should be noted).
Analysis: a misleading tactic that had to be preserved
As you probably know, Microsoft has a long history of people to use Edge, dating, well, the creation of the browser. The Windows operating system has long played a host of various boosts, or simple and simple advertisements, pushing Edge, so it is not exactly a surprise to see that Microsoft had tried another angle on persuasion.
The misleading nature of research results, compared to the content of the web page (when it was always active), was the real problem here – and I am not surprised that Microsoft quickly abandoned it.
What has aggravated is the attraction of click on “uninstall Edge” when for most people (outside Europe), there is no official way to completely remove the browser from an installation From Windows 11. Indeed, other bits of the operating system are based on the code in Edge, or it is Microsoft’s position on the issue, anyway.
You can delete all shortcuts and so on the browser, and ignore it, but you cannot really delete the application as such. He will always be sitting there hiding in the background. (In addition, I should clarify, you can to try To ignore it, but it will appear again and again with a certain regularity in the form of suggestions in various parts of Windows that you should use Edge and to make it your default browser).
One of the most frustrating elements of all of this is that Edge is a real product – he leads our list of the best web browsers, in fact – but with constant attempts to promote it, Microsoft is more likely to move away The people of the application, not in the fold.
