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Do "Show Files" in the Installer app's menubar and it'll show you everything it's installing.

In this case, it's installing Edge and the universal Microsoft AutoUpdater app. Given the range of stuff that thing has to support (including all the Office apps) and the privs it will need to run at to do so, I think the admin requirement is not entirely unreasonable.

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If Office 365 can use the Apple updater, so can Edge. Or they can do whatever Chrome does, it doesn't require admin rights. I don't think Microsoft can talk about secure and private and then require admin to install their software. It is archaic.

Ah, well at least it's using Microsoft's pre-existing AutoUpdater (the same one used by Office if you don't get it from the App Store)

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