Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella,
As browser developers, we believe PC users’ choices should be free and respected, not controlled, distorted or ignored.
That principle unites the Browser Choice Alliance in advancing a digital world where PC users control their own online experience, can choose their preferred browser without manipulation or interference, trust their preferences will be honored and participate in a marketplace where browsers compete on merit.
The approach Microsoft has taken is markedly different.
Microsoft leverages its immensely powerful position as the supplier of the ubiquitous Windows PC operating system, as well as many productivity and other must-have apps, to push users towards its first-party browser, Edge, through tactics that restrict, distort and subvert user choice. These include:
