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It runs a bunch of pre and postinstall scripts, which seem to mainly be sending install telemetry to Microsoft: https://imgur.com/LbCd89v

There's a `send_event` binary in the package which appears to post data to https://self.events.data.microsoft.com/OneCollector/1.0/

Well, now they have telemetry of me launching the installer, realizing that they don't give any context about what is being installed, and closing it...

Microsoft demoed the ability to install PWAs from Edge on macOS at BUILD, so maybe the installer is partly to prepare to support that?

I get that Dropbox needs an installer (it integrates with Finder etc).

For a web browser, it seems a bit gratuitous. I'm holding off for now.