Microsoft’s modifications in response to the Digital Markets Act already included permitting Windows machines within the areas it covers to uninstall Edge and take away Bing outcomes from Windows search, however now the listing is rising in some significant methods. New options introduced Monday for Microsoft Windows customers within the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) embrace the choice to uninstall the Microsoft Store and keep away from further 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 within the United States, and in accordance with Microsoft, it’s already reside within the EEA, beginning with Edge model 137.0.3296.52 that rolled out on May twenty ninth.
Additionally, setting a special browser, like Chrome, Firefox, Brave, or one thing else, will pin it to the taskbar until the consumer chooses to not. While setting a special browser default already attaches it to a couple hyperlink and file sorts like https and .html, now customers within the EEA will see it apply to extra sorts 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 Windows 10 and Windows 11 in July.
Microsoft additionally defined that even after eradicating the Store app from Start and Settings, “Apps put in and distributed from the Microsoft Store will proceed to get updates,” and it may possibly at all times be reinstalled.
Other modifications talked about embrace robotically enabling third-party apps so as to add their net search leads to Windows Search upon set up, and the choice to maneuver search suppliers round primarily based on consumer choice. With updates rolling out in “early June,” the Microsoft Bing app, in addition to the Widgets Board and Lock Screen, will open net content material with the default browser as a substitute.
