[usconservative]

those who upgrade by selecting "Express Settings," as most do, will find Edge the default even if they had previously specified a competitor like Firefox or Google's Chrome.

Free clue for the author: EVERY WINDOWS UPGRADE DOES THIS! HELLOOOO!!!!!! Did you do any RESEARCH prior to writing this crap?

You do know (author, not you dayglored..) that the default settings can be easily changed back by the end user don't you?

Stupid articles written by uninformed, uneducated tech writers just really piss me off. WHINE WHINE WHINE my default settings changed when I installd an OS Upgrade!!! What to do, what to do!!!

Dumbasses.

[dayglored]

IMO, the whole point of doing an “in place” upgrade is to retain all the user settings, applications, licenses, keys, passwords, etc. from the existing installation. Of course you can reset changed settings, but why should you have to?

Personally I rarely upgrade in place, since I use the occasion of a new version to do a clean up and fresh install. Windows goes stale after a year or so.

But when I do an in place upgrade I want everything that can be carried forward to be carried forward. Stepping on the user’s browser preference is totally unnecessary and arrogant. Just because they’ve done it before doesn’t excuse it in 2015.

I’ll probably upgrade in place to get the free ride, on one of my machines, but most are staying at Win7 until 2020.