This morning I turned on my PC to be greeted with a jubilant installation banner touting the "new Edge Browser from Microsoft". Only option presented: install the turd.
The following banners also only had the option to continue installing. Clicking the cross in the upper right corner to stop this only made the install move one step further.
What kind of behaviour is this? I've never used Edge and have no wish to do so, I have much better browsers installed.
As Edge is part of Windows, and they have a new version of Edge (they changed the rendering engine from their own too Googles Chromium), I guess they saw it as part of your update of the system.
Even if you have not used som parts of your system, it is usually updated regardless. I installed a firmware update to a Keysight scope that I am testing, and it also updated things in the scope that I (yet) had not used.
So I do not find it that very strange. That said I agree they should perhaps informed better about it.
Personally I use Edge (the new Chromium based version) on not only my Windows machine, but also om my two Macs, and my iOS devices (one iPhone and two iPads), and I am very happy with it so far. I think they made an excellent browser, replacing my previous most used one (Chrome) as the default one.