If this is true then Microsoft has descended to new lows.

Guess they need to be slapped with another AntiTrust charge to refresh their minds.

The message from your link - “You already have Microsoft Edge – the safer, faster browser for Windows 10” - strikes me as merely (unwanted in my case) marketing.  Wouldn't really call it a warning.  It'll probably get them some extra Edge users - some people will believe whatever you throw in front of them.

I can't really see them arbitrarily uninstalling currently patched Chrome or Firefox, seems like that would be crossing "The Line."  Never hurts to keep your bookmarks backed up anyway though.

Thanks for the post, always interesting.

Microshit can shove it!   

LOL

In other words: let's see if we can already get away with murder... oh, we still can't? Ooops. Never mind people, it was all a joke, nothing to see here, go back to whatever you were doing (crap!).

You posted this while I was still writing, but yeah, I was going to say something similar.   The problem is, however, while MS seems to be outwardly backtracking, it most likely isn't inwardly.  After the most recent MS updates I had several programs uninstalled: Right Click Enhancer; Speccy; Everything; NordVPN and TeraCopy.... not to mention Winstep Xtreme and several Stardock apps. 

While the latter ones 'may' have been unintentional [though now I doubt it], the ones I mentioned beforehand have previously been uninstalled on other machines of mine.  I also recall somebody else a while back posting about Updates uninstalling his copy of Speccy 

Frankly, it comes across as though MS doesn't want some 3rd party apps on its 'flagship OS', and therefore will uninstall them during Scheduled Maintenance [which now I also have disabled] and/or Windows Updates.  Like I said before, let's all do whatever it takes as users to slow down MS's march towards a Walled Garden, and hopefully as a united group we can prevent it.... like vote with our wallets if need be.

The problem with Linux becoming mainstream is that there are too many variants, and as such, there aren't enough major software developers willing to create for Linux because of it.  While Adobe's Photoshop, for example, may run on Mint and Ubuntu, it may not on Red Hat and others.   However, if the core variations between the distros were minimised so that various softwares ran on all of them, then perhaps the Linux OSes could rise to the fore.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Linux as I like Ubuntu and Mint a lot, it's just that I find myself coming back to Windows when I need various softwares to edit videos and etc.  I'd love it if developers like Ashampoo and Stardock would create their software for Ubuntu, though, then I doubt I'd want or need to switch back to Windows.