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Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.

Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.

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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Microsoft: "you no want Microsoft? You want Microsoft. "

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[-] light5speed@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Microsoft always pushing things way too much, unnecessarily.

But I actually like the feature. I use Outlook for corporate email and Edge for work related stuff. Firefox is my default browser. It was always confusing to open a link on an email message on the "wrong" browser.

Now this doesn't happen. Links on emails open correctly on the work browser.

But we should definitely have an option to choose which browser we would like the links to open on.

[-] jerd@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Looks like Microsoft is due for another anti trust lawsuit. They should remember Bill’s fun adventures in capitol hill.

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[-] SilentMobius@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Doesn't surprise me at all, the company I work for has gone all in with AzureAD SSO and that will only work on Edge (edge supplies info for the MS asset verification software that constantly eats my CPU) so now we can't use anything other than Edge for any internal service and need to develop for Edge if we are writing an internal tool.

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[-] Takato83@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

Ugh noticed this earlier today and thought it was something on my end (setting messed up or reverted), but nah just Microsoft making it hard to love windows as usual

[-] Rathernotsay@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I guess we are never regulating tech companies again even though this behavior was already blocked by the FTC Microsoft case twenty years ago.

[-] khoplex@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago

It happened to me last week and it pissed me off. If i wanted to use Edge I would, Microsoft needs to cut the pushy shit out.

[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

As long as people continue using MS products they'll be victims to this BS. Switching my family to Linux (Currently Fedora, will later try Debian again) has been a blessing for everyone here.

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[-] andrewtate@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago
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[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I use this and never had a problem again. https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect

However I cannot comment on Office since I use FOSS office software (OnlyOffice). Please try it and let us know how it works out. It redirects everything I do to OperaGX (my preference) including those "START" searches.

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[-] Coolcoder360@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

There's a setting for this in Outlook now, basically a toggle to choose either edge or the system default.

Not nice to have an extra setting for it but at least it can be turned off

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[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

I'd be all over Linux if all my games ran on it.

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[-] ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With their new upcoming UI that breaks existing Outlook addins (and sucks too btw) and this one. I can't wait for people to do away with Outlook. I'm the only one at work that even uses Thunderbird (with Owl for exchange addon). Was laughing my ass last time that Outlook had a zero day and our IT was telling us to not use the Outlook app until the zero day is fixed.

Btw this is what the new Outlook looks like

It looks like the web version, breaks addons and alot of features that the current one has are missing.

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[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago

Move to Ubuntu, you are not obligated to use Microsoft.

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[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

People use outlook? Like at home on their personal computer?

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