Last month, Microsoft blocked a third-party application called Edgeflector for users registered in the Windows Insider program and now, Giant Tech has blocked the application for all Windows 11 users with the latest 22000.376 Build.
For those who don’t know, every time the user looks for something through the search box in the start menu, Microsoft takes them to the edge of the browser and the Bing search engine.
Applications such as edgeflector help users to avoid these sidewalks and see search results in their choice browser.
According to Microsoft, the move is needed to support the end-to-end encryption feature on the OS.
“The window also offers a certain end-to-end customer experience in Windows 10 and Windows 11, the search experience of the taskbar is one example of a final-to-end experience that is not designed to be directed.
When we become aware of improper divortions , we issue improvements.
“Microsoft spokesman said in a statement to the verge.
Edgedeflector application developers, Daniel Alexandersen, blow up the company’s steps to block applications on their blogs.
“This is not a caring company that cares about the product again.
Microsoft is not a good servant of the Windows operating system.
They prioritize advertising, bundleways, and service subscriptions for their user productivity,” Aleksandersen wrote on his blog.
With his recent movement, Microsoft has explained that he wants Windows users to stick to the Edge browser.
Giant Tech recently increased his campaign against Chrome when starting to show instructions such as “the browser became 2008! Do you know what’s new? Microsoft Edge.” Every time the user visits the Chrome browser download page.
However, the company then returns from an aggressive strategy.
With the launch of Windows 11, the company also changes the way the user sets the default application.
In the new operating system, the user must specify the default application in accordance with the type of file or type of link instead of one switch.
This means that to change the default browser, users must change the default file type for FTP, HTTPS, HTTP, HTML, HTM, PDF, SHTML, SVG, WebP, XHTML and XHTML.