> Edge has objectively been better than Chrome on Windows
No, Edge is not "objectively" better. It is not even better privacy wise, seeing that it will sell it's users for anything (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288052), I can paste more and more such examples. Two products which are this similar can not be "objectively" better than each other enough to force one down everyone's throat.
> but almost nobody knows this as people still default to installing Chrome out of 10+ years of habit.
Then MSFT should fire their marketing department and start afresh. People know about other browsers like Vivaldi and Brave so they can clearly be explained about Edge's virtues with the immense MSFT budget.
> Humans are creatures of habit and the bad and good impressions from the old days tend to stick around regrades if the current realities have shifted,
By this logic all agency can be taken from people and they should be forced to use products deemed "objectively better".
> So market success in the browser space is clearly no longer about having the better product, but about having the stronger brand and supporting ecosystem.
Regardless of my views on the demerits of Edge, this is true of every industry and if MSFT doesn't know how to build a brand and ecosystem, clearly lots of execs need to step down.