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Microsoft has adhered to the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) by enabling Windows 11 users to uninstall Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Bing, and more. (alternativeto.net)

submitted 8 months ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I thought they said it was an integral part of the operating system and couldn’t be removed. Are you telling me that Microsoft lied?

[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

to be fair you always could remove edge, it just legitimately broke a lot of windows apps

[–] current@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can +1 this, a looong time ago I tried uninstalling Microsoft Edge and it made the system go ballistic. Every time I clicked a link, instead of going to my default browser (Chrome then) it would just open a completely broken Edge window with no functionality. Any time I tried to change settings, it'd do the same thing. Anything to do with touching the internet got fucked. I spent hours trying to reinstall Edge, contacting a Microsoft support person who was useless, before I realized that the official site only provides the Windows download for Edge if you set your user agent with... any system other than Windows. Huh.

[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

you could have used winget or chocolatey as well.

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