Instead, MS builds Edge with a load of (mind-booggling) functionality that, not-only no-one asked for, but positively put businesses off ever using Edge: things

Instead, MS builds Edge with a load of (mind-booggling) functionality that, not-only no-one asked for, but positively put businesses off ever using Edge: things like built-in shopping price-comparisons and price-tracking[1], “Bing Rewards”[2], and most egregiously of all (and quickly back-pedalled…): directly advertising retail finance services to users[3]. All (well, most) of this unwanted functionality can be disabled via Group Policy (and MDM for non-AD computers?) but only businesses with competent/knowledgeable IT people can do that - for everyone else it’s just going to push users away. Microsoft (and Edge, Windows and Bing) so desperately wants to be loved by users - that’s how you maintain market-share, but they can’t stop self-sabotaging everything with the most asinine things like above (…and the Windows 11 Start Menu). I don’t understand it - and I used to work at Microsoft![4] [1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/769820/microsoft-edge-gets-yet-another-shopping-feature/ https://www.howtogeek.com/769820/microsoft-edge-gets-yet-ano... [2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards/edge-bonus https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards/edge-bonus [3]: https://www.howtogeek.com/769427/microsoft-edge-wants-to-give-you-a-loan/ https://www.howtogeek.com/769427/microsoft-edge-wants-to-giv... [4]: granted, I was in DevDiv, where the only objection I had to the products’ direction was the colour scheme - my friends in OSG (Windows) and Bing had lots of horror stories of orders to implement dumb ideas coming from org heads - rarely was it actual user demand. Arguably what makes Apple a standout is their internal propensity to say “no” - Microsoft needs that.