It really wants you to make the swap.
If you ever want to feel noticed, just try downloading Google Chrome using a clean install of Edge. On pretty much every step of the way, from entering your search for «Google Chrome download» on Bing to clicking the website and visiting the download page, Microsoft will do its utmost best to remind you that, hey, it worked really hard on Edge, and it’s running on Chromium now, so there’s no need to use another browser, honest.
Once you have Google Chrome installed, the pestering stops. However, Microsoft may introduce a new feature that will single out people who predominantly use Chrome and ask them if they wouldn’t mind pinning Microsoft Edge to the taskbar, pretty please.
Microsoft is trying out making Edge even more of a pest
Windows Latest did some digging through the latest Microsoft Edge Canary build, and it found some interesting variables. One of them has a really long name, «msOptimizeChromePBSignalForPinningOnCloseCampaigns», which has a few elements to it that can be broken down to understand what it’s up to.
