Well obviously they lose telemetry when you leave the ms ecosystem, so the user journey has effectively ended at that point /s
> things like password autofill in a lot of the MS auth flows (which appear to be web-based, as far as I can tell) just don’t work
Cynically I could believe this is partly by design. If they manage to get you into edge often enough, sooner or later you'll set up your workflows in edge as well out of annoyance. Maintaining two separate browser environments is a burden, and sooner or later a lot of people will give up and stick to the browser you have to use in many cases.
> Do they really need Edge to gather your data if they own the OS?
"Need?" No. But that wasn't the question MS asked themselves. The question was probably "More data or less?" Framed like that, it's unfortunately obvious why they chose this route.
What's your reasoning behind using 4 separate browsers? I've tried Brave and Chromium but I don't see any reason to switch between my usual Firefox and another browser (unless a webpage doesn't work at all on FF)
Everyone in a technical role at my company uses one “normal user” browser and one “privileged account” browser.
This is to avoid confusion; no chance of doing some administrative action accidentally because I recognize the different UI elements of Firefox vs. Edge.
Browser containers/profiles/whatever don’t present visually different-enough UX to each distinct persona.
> things like password autofill in a lot of the MS auth flows (which appear to be web-based, as far as I can tell) just don’t work
Cynically I could believe this is partly by design. If they manage to get you into edge often enough, sooner or later you'll set up your workflows in edge as well out of annoyance. Maintaining two separate browser environments is a burden, and sooner or later a lot of people will give up and stick to the browser you have to use in many cases.