Microsoft insists the 'forced' installation of Office PWAs was a mistake caused by a bug

Over the last couple of weeks, Microsoft was seemingly caught forcibly installing shortcuts to its Office web apps. Users of Microsoft Edge found that their Start menus were suddenly populated with links to Microsoft Office PWAs (progressive web apps). But rather than being a slightly underhand way of advertising its other apps and services, Microsoft has a different explanation. The company says that the shortcuts started to appear as a result of a bug in the Edge browser, insisting it was not intentional. See also: KB4579311 cumulative update is causing numerous problems for Windows 10 users Microsoft is foisting Office… [Continue Reading]