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>>mfwit+(OP)
I changed it back to use default browser. It took all of 60 seconds to google the answer. They totally should take a calculated risk like this in order to gain more market share. Exercising control over software defaults rarely causes users to abandon a product entirely. The pain of changing the default back is much less than the pain of finding a new tool. Microsoft will not lose Outlook users by doing this. They will gain Edge users though. Yes, they will enrage the craftspeople who aren't a part of THE GRID, but that still won't affect the bottom line enough to matter.

>>SpaceL+2d
They also reinforce their reputation of using dark UI patterns hostile to their paying customers.

This type of thing doesn't come for free, IMO. There's a cost to this, even if they don't pay it in the short term.