14 DAY TRIAL // Some of the Windows 10 Threshold 2 users who installed the latest cumulative update claimed it reset their default apps, configuring apps such as Edge and Groove as the one choice for browsing the web and listening to music.
This isn’t the first time this is happening, and Threshold 2 itself did the same thing, while other early Windows 10 adopters claimed similar changes had been made by other cumulative updates too.
But enough is enough, more and more users say, and complaints posted in the Windows 10 Feedback app pretty much speak for themselves, with hundreds of users voting for them to show Microsoft that updates for the new operating system should not reset default apps.
“Please STOP changing my default programs and apps with every upgrade. If I want to use Adobe instead of Edge, that should be MY CHOICE NOT YOURS. This is still MY computer,” one such suggestion that has more than 160 votes in 2 weeks reads.
New prompts for default apps
It’s not a surprise that Microsoft’s pushing so hard for its default apps. The company has also made some other tweaks to Windows 10 to make sure that users least give them a try before switching to third parties.
For example, prompts are now displayed whenever users try to change default apps, with messages specifically supposed to convince them to take them for a spin.
“Give Microsoft Edge a shot. Before you switch defaults, see what you can do in an app built just for Windows 10,” one such prompt reads. Users are provided with two different options, to abandon the switch and try Edge or to switch anyway.
It’s hard to say if the pre-installed Windows 10 apps are still default on the majority of PCs running the OS because Microsoft doesn’t provide stats on this, but judging from these complaints, this really doesn’t seem to be the case.