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Windows 10 Informs Chrome and Firefox Users That Edge is 'Safer' (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a VentureBeat report:Microsoft has turned on a new set of Windows Tips that inform Chrome and Firefox users on Windows 10 that Edge is a "safer" browser. We reached out to Microsoft to find out how long this latest recommendation has been active. "This wave of Windows Tips for Windows 10 users began in early November," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat. If this sounds familiar, that's because Microsoft turned on similar Windows 10 tips back in July, warning Chrome/Firefox users about battery drain and then recommending Edge instead.
They got in trouble because of how they abused their operating system monopoly to forcefully promote their browser.
HAVING a monopoly isn't illegal, and certainly TRYING to have one isn't illegal. ABUSING a monopoly in certain specific ways is illegal. They had a monopoly on the desktop OS, more or less. Enough that when they told Dell and HP "you may not sell computers with Windows and also provide Netscape", Dell and HP had no choice but to comply. Microsoft basically made it "illegal" to pre-install any browser other than IE. You're not allowed to abuse a monopoly in one area (operating systems) in order to unfairly gain a monopoly in another area (browsers).
In addition, Microsoft did other unfair, anticompetitive things like for a while IE would refuse to download Netscape. Netscape couldn't be pre-installed, because Microsoft wouldn't allow that, and it couldn't be downloaded on a fresh Windows system, because Microsoft wouldn't allow that.