It's already installed and it works well enough. Plus, if I'm using Windows, I'm already sending a bunch of telemetry to MS, so I don't see a reason to go out of my way to send some to goog, too. Also, I'm not a Netflix customer, but I understand that on PC you need Edge to get high-definition (>=1080p) video. Chrome doesn't work (neither does it work on Mac). So the question becomes: is there a legimate use case for Chrome when Edge is available (and is mostly the same thing)?

I, personally, am quite against using a Google browser (or derivative), but for my gaming PC where I only launch the browser once in a blue moon, I just can't be bothered to download anything else since Edge works. On my work PC I use Firefox, and am quite happy with it.

There are significant changes in Edge compared to Chrome stable and perf and efficiency improvements on Windows (not to mention deeper system integration).

From a business perspective, IE mode and onedrive userstate sync for o365 customers

From a personal perspective, goog and microsoft are basically equivalent and I don't want either of their browsers.

Edge is the only Chromium-based browser that allows for Vertical Tabs.

Vivaldi has it, and it's a Chromium-based browser made by people who left Opera after it was sold to the Chinese. Opera had vertical tabs even a decade or so ago, back when it was still using its own Presto engine (they switched to Chromium and seems to have lost this feature).

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it looks like Vivaldi is closed source. Do you know how it is monetized?

Search engines, bookmarks and they offer email services.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

I'm thinking Microsoft is hoping for the reverse: Why download Chrome when you have a perfectly good Blink based browser already installed.