Since people hate it so much and Microsoft is treating their OS like a website to be monetized then it wouldn't surprise me if the tabloid service gets embedded in the kernel, so as to prevent people from disabling or removing it.
Na, they will be too busy trapped in AI created unskippable commercials taking over their audio and visual cortex on their neural linking device to remember there was anything better in the past.
Even in today's age (during COVID) some small % of the populace actually moved out from the big cities and into rural -- or just smaller city -- communities.
I have hope. Sadly the positive societal changes move with the average speed of a glacier.
To be honest, it was. It still is, and it's getting more and more integral and inseparable as time passes.
It just didn't need to be their browser. But the more important thing, they were fighting the trend, and making sure their browser didn't work. That is what broke the Netscape plan.