Microsoft reached its deadline to comply with EU’s DMA changes that it announced last year. As such, the company published the changes it made to Windows including the ability to uninstall stock apps.
Back in November, Microsoft announced that it was making major changes to Windows so as to comply with the European Union (E.U.)’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The changes were several and they were first released to Insiders as Release Preview under KB5032288.
These included a clear demarcation of stock apps as «system» apps. The ability to uninstall Edge and Bing web search were also added. The sign-in experience was also modified. You can view the full set of changes in the announcement article.
The deadline for such DMA compliance was set to March 6 2024, and as the company published details about the changes it made in a blog post.
