> Microsoft leverages its immensely powerful position as the supplier of the ubiquitous Windows PC operating system, as well as many productivity and other must-have apps, to push users towards its first-party browser, Edge, through tactics that restrict, distort and subvert user choice.

Heh. This could have been written 25 years ago.

Though at least back then, Microsoft was winning. Since then, the market share of IE/Edge has become so irrelevant that most people have stopped caring so much about these tactics.

At this point, it mostly just comes across as adorable when Windows tries to push you to use Edge. Like "wow, they're still trying."

All this applies to iOS and safari too

Microsoft is effectively a monopoly, to say it's anything else and that other browsers are available is a nonsense for reasons that everyone knows.

Appealing to reason is a waste of time as no big monopolistic corporation will willingly forfeit money. The only realistic solution is legislative. I don't see that happening anytime soon in the US but perhaps it's possible in other jurisdictions (more likely now that the US is no longer the flavor of the month with many).