'Have fun!' shouts the truck driver, having dropped off your new car, which has helpfully arrived pre-configured for a life on concrete blocks in the front yard. Today, the idea of shipping an OS without a browser seems more like buying a car that gets delivered to your house without any wheels. Over 20 years ago, Microsoft's decision to bundle IE with its Windows browser was the straw that sent the DOJ charging after the company. But it's interesting to see how much perspectives have changed on this point going forward. Apart from that, is there a huge reason to uninstall Edge? The only reason to fall back to the old Edge compared with the new one, as far as I can tell, is if you really made use of the annotation feature, which no longer exists in the new app and will not, apparently, be returning. While you are asked if you wish to complete the process the browser kicks it off without so much as a by-your-leave. Much as the Windows 10 giveaway theoretically ended in 2016 but is actually going on today, it's still technically possible to uninstall Chromium Edge.Īs for Microsoft's justification for why you can't, the company writes: 'We want to ensure all Windows customers have the latest Microsoft Edge browser for the performance, privacy, security, productivity, and support features it offers.' Ironic that the company mentions privacy, since the Chromium Edge installer automatically starts importing your user data from Chrome as soon as Windows boots up post-installation. You aren't able to uninstall Chromium Edge - once it's on your system, it's on there for good (according to Microsoft), though those of you who are a little more familiar with digging around in the guts of Windows already have a gleam in your collective eye(s). In all that conversation, not much attention has been paid to a different point. Firefox is the only significant alternative, and Firefox's overall market share has been falling. There have been some discussions of how it's arguably better than Chrome itself and some worry about what it means for the internet to have a single company (Google) in such a position of browser dominance. The new version of their browser, also called Edge (sometimes Chromium Edge, to differentiate it from the older version) has rolled out to general applause. After several years spent trying to build their own ecosystem around EdgeHTML, Microsoft called it quits and decided to switch to Chromium.

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