Microsoft is testing a new prompt in Edge for Android, asking users to set it as their default browser on startup.

Microsoft is using a banner to get users to use Edge as the default browser in Windows 11 ... spotted using annoying full-screen multipage popup ads to get Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows ...

Navigate to the “Default apps” screen and scroll down. 4. Click the Microsoft Edge icon and you’ll see a pop-up with a list of your installed browsers. Select a different browser to be your ...

It then goes on to explain things you can do with Microsoft’s AI features, but also has a sneaky checkbox that, checked by default, allows Edge to ... close out the pop-up in the top right ...

Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that the pop-ups are genuine and should only appear once. “This is a one-time notification giving people the choice to set Bing as their default search ...

The pop-up has a “bring over your data from ... to use Edge in Start menu search results, even if their default browser is not Edge. Microsoft has been forcing Windows 10 and Windows 11 users ...

A new pop-up on Microsoft Edge tries to corral people into switching search engine. If you have your default search engine set to Google, widely regarded as superior to Bing, Microsoft will ask ...

As reported by The Verge, this pop-up has a checked-by-default option to ... think of this as an attempt by Microsoft to trick you into switching over to Edge. After all, if all of your data ...

and cash-back pop-ups generated by Shopping in Microsoft Edge (many settings automatically sync between Edge browsers when you sign in with a Microsoft account; the default search engine and all ...