So missing a Clippy Joke. "You seem to be trying to get work done. Would you like me to get in the way and bother you?"
Having said that, the irony that MS is so desperate to get people to user their browser is just sweet to me, given how they stalled the development of IE on v6 for so long and basically wrote their own epitaph for control. Having said that, I am glad that MS is pushing a new browser when they're actually doing repeatable studies showing varies ways it's better--of course it helps when they actually are repeatable and aren't exploiting pointless Edge cases.
I also entirely agree that Google which original made Chrome mostly to push more Javascript and general standards adoption still going that way--being on the cusp of and pushing for things to be the standard while they're integrating them into Chrome--as really not the route to go at this stage. Originally it made sense because there was a lot of improvements that the dominate browser (IE) basically didn't do and the second upstart browser (Firefox) were really taking their time to push. At this point, though, it's not really clear what Chrome has specifically to add--I mean, beyond fixing the various ways in which those new standards have been a massive target for spamming ads*.
So, bravo MS on the actual work. DIAF over this "App Recommendations" or whatever they're calling it. I still won't be using Edge because I don't use Windows most the time and when I do I'd rather use Firefox or Chrome with ad blocking extensions (and a host file). Maybe some day MS will actually convince me by making their web browser open source and port it to Linux. You know, the new normal.
* Obviously, that was part of the goal on Google's part, but I don't think their aim was nearly in the scope of the scummy/abusive and more in the general and possibly annoying. Even so, it was blatantly obvious from day -1 that <video> and <audio> were abuse magnets even without codec vulnerability concerns, so I chalk it up to some serious incompetence on their part. The whole various gif and 101 other ways to simulate a movie (without audio)? Not really something they can absolutely fix, but they could always cut websites off from adwords that do such things (along with all the other scummy tactics).