I had a strange issue today: I couldn’t open any webpage in the Edge browser on my Windows 10 machine:

Edge browser with error message "Can't reach this page"
Edge browser: “Can’t reach this page”

Network icon showing Internet access

The network icon was showing that there was Internet access and a quick check on the command prompt showed that the connection (including name resolution appeared to work fine):

Command prompt showing that ping to www.google.com works fine.ping www.google.comPinging www.google.com [172.217.168.196] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.217.168.196: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=55
Reply from 172.217.168.196: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=55Ping statistics for 172.217.168.196:
Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms
ping to www.google.com

Other browsers such as Firefox (my default browser) and Chrome also worked fine but some other Microsoft applications also didn’t work such as the Microsoft Store:

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