There are a few places in Windows where Microsoft does force links to open Edge instead of whatever your default browser is. Depending on your usage patterns I

There are a few places in Windows where Microsoft does force links to open Edge instead of whatever your default browser is. Depending on your usage patterns I guess it is possible to never stumble across those places [1], but they do indeed exist [2]. [1] E.g. I've only really encountered them in one place so far, and it's easily possible to avoid that place, too. [2] That one place I certainly know of is the lock screen in case you've kept the default "Show random pretty pictures" setting turned on.