Update: Microsoft has given me the same statement, attributed to the same exec. And a spokesperson said the company declined to talk about possible timing for this change. The statement from Aaron Woodman, VP Windows Marketing: “In the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509 released to the Dev Channel on Wednesday, we streamlined the ability for a Windows Insider to set the ‘default browser’ to apps that register for http:, https:, .htm, and .html. Through the Windows Insider Program you will continue to see us try new things based on customer feedback and testing.” Microsoft has moved to a new servicing model via which it will only be releasing one feature update per year to Windows 10 and 11 in the latter half of each year. But the wording in recent blog posts for Insiders indicates that Microsoft is planning to release some new features for Windows 11 outside of this feature update, so hopefully, this change will come sooner rather than later.
