- Microsoft Edge’s uninstall doc promotes the browser over Google Chrome, with none precise removing directions
- It encompasses a guidelines on supposed benefits over Google Chrome
- There is not any official solution to uninstall Microsoft Edge, because the management panel solely permits for a ‘restore’
It is no shock that Microsoft is making extra makes an attempt to shift PC customers away from different browsers in favor of its personal Edge choice but once more – however its newest scheme might be a brand new low level.
As noticed by Home windows Newest, a brand new ‘uninstall doc‘ was launched by Microsoft, supposedly explaining how one can take away Microsoft Edge out of your PC, however surprisingly, it does not. As an alternative, it compares Edge to Google Chrome with a guidelines (pictured under) of options that it claims can be found on Edge however not Chrome (which is not fully true) – basically, it is doing the other of what most individuals would count on a doc about uninstalling an app to do..
It’s a disgrace that this comes after Microsoft’s well-received privateness updates for Chrome incognito mode, which is a large constructive for its customers. Nonetheless, it’s now hit a low with this ‘uninstall’ doc that customers will not like in any respect. Microsoft already aggressively pushes Edge by way of pop-ups and adverts in Home windows 11, which many customers think about to be invasive and annoying. In the meantime, Chrome stays the preferred browser regardless of Microsoft’s boasts of Edge’s excessive consumer numbers in 2024, so it’s not a shock that many might need to uninstall Edge.
It should not come as an enormous shock, since Microsoft has used quite a few techniques to win customers over to its browser – however this feels notably disingenuous.
Jogs my memory of membership cancellation pages…
Attempting to eliminate one thing, solely as a substitute to be bombarded with causes for not eliminating it, will really feel awfully acquainted to many individuals who’ve tried to cancel a subscription. Attempt to cancel your PlayStation Plus subscription, for instance, and Sony will attempt to tempt you to stick with a proposal on a 12-month premium subscription.
Amazon can be infamous for this – should you attempt to cancel Prime, you must click on by a number of pages convincing you to remain – and it was really sued for this, primarily as a result of its advertising techniques had been considered as misleading and coercive by the FTC (US Federal Commerce Fee).
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So, Microsoft is way from the one firm that’s making an attempt to alter the minds of its clients desirous to ditch a product. Nonetheless, there’s no denying that this transfer appears notably unusual – you’d count on a doc which is meant to present you directions to uninstall a program to just do that, relatively than the other by making an attempt to get you to maintain utilizing it. It additionally feels a bit cheeky utilizing the phrase ‘uninstall’ if there’s actually no solution to formally uninstall Edge.
Personally, I believe that basically forcing customers to maintain a program put in on their PCs will as a substitute push them additional away from utilizing it. Saying one factor however doing one other might come again to chew Microsoft…
