--- title: Microsoft is sacrificing Edge on the altar of Copilot description: Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 feature that auto-launches Edge on login, a move the author argues is driven not by browser competition but by the need to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-sacrificing-edge-on-the-altar-of-copilot-pikeurupv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft is sacrificing Edge on the altar of Copilot | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 feature that auto-launches Edge on login, a move the author argues is driven not by browser competition but by the need to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-sacrificing-edge-on-the-altar-of-copilot-pikeurupv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PIkeuRUpV.png og:image:alt: Microsoft is sacrificing Edge on the altar of Copilot og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft is sacrificing Edge on the altar of Copilot **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 feature that auto-launches Edge on login, a move the author argues is driven not by browser competition but by the need to funnel users into the Copilot and Bing AI ecosystem. Despite Edge being a genuinely capable Chromium-based browser, it holds only ~12.9% desktop market share versus Chrome's 69.4%. The aggressive tactics — auto-starts, default-browser friction, recommendation banners — risk eroding user trust and accelerating migration to Linux, whose desktop share has hit a record 9.52%. The author warns that coercing technically savvy users, the very people who influence broader adoption, is a short-term strategy with long-term reputational costs, and that Edge's quality should be allowed to speak for itself. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Microsoft pushes Edge to auto-launch on Windows 11 startup in latest beta](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-pushes-edge-to-auto-launch-on-windows-11-startup-in-latest-beta-8bu9khgwx) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Copilot swallows your browser. 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