Windows 11 default desktop Chat/Teams widgets are Edge web views that eat up hundreds of MB of memory: https://archive.is/pyvEO
Edge also preloads in the background even if it's not the default browser: https://archive.md/AAjz4
Both links also detail how to disable these "features."
What are you going to do when MSFT goes full pro-women? The fireworks will be fun. Smart money is not being "permanently" anything but avoiding lock-in as far as possible. Company goes too "woke" then take your money elsewhere.
I can't get over the woke crap they are pushing in both Office & linkedin.