News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support In this week’s recap, we take a look at Microsoft’s continued efforts to make Edge your default browser, significant changes to Windows, and a new Dev Channel build, among many other things.
Although we are heading closer to the holiday season in many countries, that does not mean that news has slowed down. Far from it, in fact. This week, we’ll be recapping Microsoft’s continued efforts to make Edge your default browser, some changes to Windows, and a new Windows 11 Dev Channel build, among many other things. Find out about all of this in our weekly digest for December 11 – December 17. Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner slammed Microsoft’s practices with its Edge browser over the week. He stated that the company its back to its old tricks again, calling the activity “blatantly anti-competitive”, “openly abusing”, and “desperate”. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, we’ve been talking about this in detail here at Neowin, about how Microsoft is showing notifications on the download pages of competing browsers, calling Edge more trustworthy. Clearly, moves like this haven’t gone over well with the competition. Speaking of stifling the competition, Microsoft has essentially disabled EdgeDeflector via the latest Patch Tuesday update on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The software forced Windows to deflect your default browser preferences in all use-cases, including Windows Search. That said, there is a workaround using another open-source software called MSEdgeRedirect, but it remains to be seen how long it will work as intended, given that Microsoft seems to be hellbent on preventing the switching of default browsers in some use-cases. Not all news on the browser front is negative, though.
