Oops. Musta slipped on some bits or something. That's a shame... 🤷♂️
This is not the kind of thing you mess around with willy-nilly, since screwing up your registry settings can cause all kinds of havoc and even brick your Windows install. Google, meanwhile, would have to make edits to your OS registry files in order to set Chrome as the default web browsing app, and even though programs do this all the time when installing or uninstalling components, it's usually not as easy as a single button click outside of a Windows settings menu.
Changing your default web browser from inside the browser itself isn't likely to pose any kind of threat, but good information and software security is preventative rather than reactive. So, Microsoft likely just determined that it needed to keep these kinds of registry changeable actions contained within Microsoft's own settings system, which is far more likely to be secure than some future version of Google Chrome.
This is probably what Microsoft is referring to when it writes in one of the few notes on the update that"This update addresses a compatibility issue. The issue occurs because of unsupported use of the registry.
Could Microsoft also be acting petty and making it just a teensy bit harder to use its competitor's product while making its own much easier as an alternative? Who's to say; it's not like Microsoft got into a very famous anti-trust battle with the US government over this exact issue of the company giving system-level preference to its own web browser over a competitor's, right? ), at a minimum, the best you can say is that Microsoft wouldn't go out of its way to necessarily...
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