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Microsoft has issued a Windows 10 patch to address EU regulators' concerns about its ubiquitous OS as industry chatter swirls around Edge and Bing potentially dodging antitrust watchdogs due to a lack of dominance. In other words, despite all the AI attention lavished on Bing and Edge, Microsoft's two less-loved products might …

  1. 43300 Silver badge

    Are they going to be issuing a patch for W11 too?

    1. Zippy´s Sausage Factory

      I doubt it. Maybe they'll try to claim Windows 11 is a "challenger" to Windows 10 and therefore exempt?

  2. Roland6 Silver badge

    So Edge is not supplied with Windows ?

    Edge/IE can only really be said to lack dominance if it is wholly separated from the market dominate Windows bundle. Ie. Windows will install etc. without a web browser.

    Which has a rather interesting impact on product registration and users ability to download an alternative browser.

    KB5034203

    So I suspect change locale to say Ireland and then install to enable the EEA functionality.

    1. captain veg Silver badge

      Re: ability to download an alternative browser.

      Windows has a functioning command-line FTP client.

      -A.

  3. ldo Silver badge

    In A Way, It’s Kind Of An Embarrassment

    Microsoft gets let off because it is too small to matter.

  4. tiggity Silver badge

    Edge

    Have they changed how Windows behaves?

    Despite having a (non Edge) browser set as the default, there were various scenarios where Windows would open things with Edge anyway via search / Cortana! (probably due to use of the dodgy "magic" microsoft-edge prefix added to urls & Windows using Edge to launch those)

    So, unless this has changed, Edge should be included as highly likely that (beyond initial near compulsory run of Edge to install an alternative browser, giving essentially 100% of Windows users running Edge at least once) that Edge will be fired up at some point due to the dubious microsoft-edge special prefix handling..

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