You can set Edge as the default browser and links will open in Edge. You can also buy an Android phone with Edge pre-installed by default like a Microsoft Surf

You can set Edge as the default browser and links will open in Edge. You can also buy an Android phone with Edge pre-installed by default like a Microsoft Surface Duo. Microsoft has been trying to co-opt Android since Windows Phone failed. And they are able to do so because Android is relatively open (certainly more open than any mainstream consumer operating system has ever been). For instance, Microsoft added support for running Android Apps on Windows 11 and they added the Amazon App store to Windows rather than the Google Play store. Done completely without any involvement from Google. That is unprecedented openness for a mainstream OS. That's not to say that Android is perfect in regards to openness but the iOS/Android walled garden false equivalence that gets pushed around here is baseless.