I worked on Edge for a bit (before it became chromium based). Browsers are ridiculously expensive to maintain. Like on the order of burning billions. The way E

I worked on Edge for a bit (before it became chromium based). Browsers are ridiculously expensive to maintain. Like on the order of burning billions. The way Edge was funded was that the default engine was Bing. Bing ads is how Edge stays afloat. Seeing how many users changed Chrome to default, this was a constant struggle. It seems some exec finally pulled the trigger and went full hostile to maximize their revenue KPI. I legit still hate the Bing page. It’s slow. It loads with msn ad crap. They even put ads on start menu. We had to constantly spin up new VMs to get Edge. The first user experience with ads on your face was very annoying. I don’t think the execs even seriously dogfooded Windows. It seemed like promo driven development. I don’t know how Apple is able to resist ad revenue unlike Google and Microsoft, but oh boy Apple seems to be cut from a different cloth. This decision seems shortsighted.