I've been watching this, but have been waiting until there were enough details to, IMHO anyway, justify posting about it. The EU is looking hard at Microsoft, Apple, Meta etc. as part of their Digital Market Act. To comply with the new regs Microsoft [& possibly others, e.g., Apple] are introducing EU-only features. In Win11 they include allowing "... PCs in EEA markets to uninstall Microsoft Edge, disable Bing in Windows Search, and turn off the Microsoft News feed and ads in the Widgets Board. The company is also ensuring Windows 11 acknowledges user defaults, and will allow users to uninstall almost all in-box apps from the OS." This is available now in KB5032288 for Insiders in the Release Preview channel.
Microsoft is serious about driving traffic to Edge / Bing, along with every other advertising opportunity they can think of -- Win10 will be getting the Windows AI Copilot too -- so only the following countries will benefit... in fact, the only way to set up Win11 to take advantage of this is selecting one of these countries on initial Windows setup.
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Republic of Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
windowscentral[.]com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-will-let-windows-11-users-in-europe-uninstall-edge-bing-and-disable-ads-in-eea-dma
windowscentral[.]com/software-apps/windows-11/how-brexit-and-microsoft-teamed-up-to-ruin-windows-11
neowin[.]net/news/kb5032288-microsoft-windows-11-eu-changes-now-live-in-massive-new-build-226312787/