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It's curious because Microsoft owns the operating system and was more than capable of designing in such a way that would allow sysadmins more control over third party browsers and software. Firefox would have been willing to work with them to provide the necessary levers. They already do with group policy.
"Security" is a term that shuts down arguments and silences all accusation of anticompetitive behavior. And they absolutely abuse that. You don't think the bean counters are ecstatic about the fact that they have effectively been able to turn every IT department in the country into Edge salesmen? You don't think there was a board meeting where the benefits of that were discussed?
Of course. I hate MS as much as the next linux user, but unfortunately from the IT team's pov it makes a lot of sense now that MS' browser isn't a broken pile of shit anymore.