Switch to Microsoft Edge nag screen

I must say, I'm not too impressed by this periodic full-screen nagging on Windows trying to get me to switch to Microsoft Edge from Google Chrome. Microsoft only gives me a "skip for now"; in other words, they will nag me to switch to Microsoft Edge in the future whether I like it or not: https://imgur.com/Uhla4RJ

Surprised they can get away with that given the fight they had with the EU about IE years ago.

In reply to a post by ian72:

Surprised they can get away with that given the fight they had with the EU about IE years ago.

Agreed. I wonder if people in countries within the European Union also see this nag screen.

I don't know if it still works, but have you tried disabling this nag screen?

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/06/02/you-can-disable-th...

That was a different issue, wasn't it? It wasn't about advertising IE.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

I don't know if it still works, but have you tried disabling this nag screen?

I suppose I could try that and see if it works for next patch Tuesday. But for less tech savvy people who have computers set up for them by other people with Google Chrome installed, no doubt in many cases they will just click the "recommended" setting and fall for the coercion towards Edge.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

That was a different issue, wasn't it? It wasn't about advertising IE.

The EU have made it very clear that they take a dim view of Microsoft using their dominant position in the operating system market to push their own products over that of their competitors. Hence my doubt that users in the European Union will be seeing this screen.

And people say Apple is bad. I don't get any of that on my Mac.

i presume that is on Windows 11?

Edited by zyborg47 (Wed 14-Jun-23 12:59:49)

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

i presume that is on Windows 11?

Windows 10.

No, it was about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.

They were made to include a screen during setup that prompted the user to download an alternative to IE if they wanted. If I remember correctly there was even a version of Windows with IE removed (as much was possible given that various bits of the user interface used it).