WHY am I being FORCED to deal with Microsoft edge?

I  100% agree bro- it sucks- microsoft edge needs to stop trying to force itself on me. its worst than internet explorer

Dear MS staff who will never read this:

Prepare for more fines and suits from the EU, boys! Seriously, stop doing this. It relies on the ignorance and stupidity of users of your operating system in order to 'trick them' into using your optional product. It is really disrespectful to people who use your operating system...hey, I hear all of the FREE, open source linux builds are getting more application software support every day and the developers don't pull this kind of stuff, imagine that! Are you scared of losing supremacy? Is that it? I hear fear makes people do really irrational things.

Why don't you just do a regular advertising campaign highlighting the benefits of using edge over chrome and firefox? Is edge not good enough to do this or is tricking people just so much more effective that you just throw ethics out the window to make a buck?

Sincerely, 

A windows user who is one more violation from never booting into his windows partition again, good thing steam games have been getting more linux support. 

PS to the OP:  Like some of the other commenters on this forum, I also was able to go to my task manager and kill the process. However, I couldn't do it simply from my task bar. This is clearly another slimy MS developer tactic to get above the required effort vs motivation curve for noncompliance to their wishes.

Edge blows. I uninstalled it. I would have no use for Winblows if games ran on Linux.

This is insane. I woke up, turned my pc on and see that while my computer updated Microsoft sneakily installed a new version of edge. The icing on the cake, however, is that my system's screen was commandeered by an unclosable presentation forcing me to watch a slow and meticulous explanation of all of the changes you've made to my system that I never asked for and want nothing to do with.

This behavior is doing the opposite of what your company wants to happen. These forceful tactics do not make anyone want to use your service and immediately make you a nuisance and enemy to the user. It's as if you as a company feel your users are going to be too stupid to notice this change or too lazy to go back to using their original browser and just passively accept the changes you've made. We're not cattle. We make our own decisions. 

So here I am, taking up my time and energy trying to change things BACK to the way I had them, on the computer I pay a lot of money to own and maintain.

I Agree, the more I'm pushed the more I don't want it or will even give it a chance. Only positive reviews from real people will do that for me. Another peeve is using Microsoft Bing and getting popups to try Edge with the only options of "try it now" or "maybe later". How about "don't show me this again!"

You eat with that mouth