The fact that Microsoft is willing to make sure that, in the future, their next iteration of web browser (called Edge to make the infamous Internet Explorer branding go away) is more tied to other applications in Windows regardless the choice of users, is reminiscent to what Microsoft did in the past. If you are young enough to not know what that means, let's just say that Microsoft tried to crush any competing web browser application twenty years ago with hardwired and questionable ties within Windows, combined with external software distribution.
Since Microsoft has always an arm of the US government, they managed to get away with that, something any other corporation wouldn't have survived on the merit of it.

Well, apparently Microsoft is doing it again. This time, I'm not surprised, not even infuriated. I think Windows 10 in and of itself should be the subject of criminal investigation for its built-in spy and surveillance tools (phones home every few minutes) and everything else is just a minor detail compared to it. I also think Microsoft sees Windows as fading, and the trick they think they have found is to bring it back to life by making it a service corporations out there would have to subscribe for, on a per user per month basis. Something that in itself should accelerate the move from corporations to greener pasture.

Also there is this idea that, by tying two programs from Windows together, this makes Windows more secure. This claim is demonstrably not true, since everyone out there can comment and swear on two decade worth of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, with a new row of critical security fixes coming every month.

Tying together by ignoring user's choice is both a step towards closing the open Windows as we knew it, effectively destroying Windows. Also there is this sence that stepping towards Windows as a service, this operating system is no longer something you own. Something that, at every moment, may act against you by virtues of the changes incorporated in the latest software upgrade you can't not allow in. Effectively like a surveillance tool in your work room.