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Microsoft’s Edge browser benefits from its default status on Windows, limiting user choice. Complaints from rival browsers and developers highlight issues of unfair advantage, prompting calls for EU intervention under the Digital Markets Act to enhance competition.
While it’s easy to dismiss the battle between Edge and its smaller rivals as a mere fight for market share, the stakes are much higher. As Opera’s court appeal against the European Commission reveals, this fight is really about choice, whether users are truly free to select the browser that best fits their needs, or whether they’re quietly nudged into sticking with whatever comes pre-installed.
Under the DMA, the EU identifies certain large tech companies as gateways, subjecting them to specific regulations with the aim of managing competition.
Microsoft’s Edge browser, pre-installed and set as the default on millions of Windows devices, is drawing growing concerns from rival browser companies and industry advocates