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.
Well… https://lemmy.world/post/1070774 has a suggestion ;)
Looks like there are now more Microsoft programs people will avoid using.
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OP was pretty clear that this was the opposite of their choice
It happened at my work the other day. There was a popup with a not so obvious option that sets it back to your default browser.
Step 1: Stop using Outlook…
I’ll just tell my IT department to stop using Outlook. I’m sure they’ll get right on that ;)
More like Asshole Design
How arent Microsoft engineers annoyed by this themselves?Do they even use the products that they make?
Not having a job is more annoying
Only at work
I’m really interested in this info. Lots of senior staff at Google use iPhone. How many engineers do?
Also I remember lot of people at the Skype team quitting after Microsoft acquired them and forced them to use Windows
This caused me to rage quit my emails this morning. I’m going to back to Thunderbird.
Edge is an OK browser that’s rapidly being bogged down with bloatware, just like Chrome which it sought to destroy. I’ll keep using Firefox and hope the same thing never happens to it. At least they finally killed off IE.
I use it on my gaming machine because it’s there and it isn’t chrome. But it keeps harassing me with browser shopping notifications, recommendations that are always about AI, and you have to visit a pasted-in flags page to disable them. It’s shit
Not that I like the current Chrome, but with all this forcing down your throat Edge from Microsoft, I hate Edge 10 times more. I guess Firefox is the only good alternative even if its is not Chromium
Especially because its not Chromium
I quite like Chromium. Maybe is my tinted glass when I just switched from Firefox/Explorer. The fact that your browser would pop up almost instantly instead of taking those 2-3 seconds to start was quite revolutionary (Firefox of course caught up quite soon on that regard, Microsoft had to adopt Chromium to do the same).
But yeah, the current bloatware and resouce gourging are quite bad when looking at it impartially.
Yeah I’ll probably just switch to FF. But I use it so infrequently on there it’s not a priority.
I’ve been using Vivaldi a lot more though. Especially on my phone
Use Thunderbird
Microsoft: "you no want Microsoft? You want Microsoft. "
Weren’t they literally sued and almost broken up for doing something like this by antitrust prosecutors like 25 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
What’s even the point of having a system default if apps are just going to ignore it?
“This change is designed to create an easier way for Outlook and Microsoft Teams users to reduce task switching across windows and tabs to help stay focused,” says Katy Asher, senior director of communications at Microsoft, in a statement to The Verge. “By opening browser links in Microsoft Edge, the original message in Outlook or Teams can also be viewed alongside web content to easily access, read and respond to the message, using the matching authenticated profile. Customers have the option to disable this feature in settings.”
I don’t know if this is a neurodivergent thing but I 500% could never see myself in a position I could say something I knew to be such BS and put my name to it.
Maybe that’s why you don’t work in marketing.
Mmm yes, let the snake oil flow through you.
They’d do better finally fixing teams. We’re talking years after release, and there’s still no option to change my status behaviour. It forces DnD when I get called, it puts me afk after only 5min, …
Their software does not fundamentally work very well. So even if this bs would be talking about an actual feature, that’s some stone age project management right there.
Why fix, when you can sell?
My job involves a fair amount of paperwork (I know, I know, what year is this?) and the fact that Teams marks me as inactive when my hands are off the mouse for a couple of minutes borderline offends me.
At this point it’s better to put it down, like the sick panda it is!
It’s buggy, bloated, slow and with a horrible UI.
Technically, yes, lizard people diverge from ordinary human neurological make-up and marketers are all lizard people.
For real though, someone developed this feature. Like, how soul-crushing must that be, developing such blatant anti-features.
Eh, considering how MS wotks internally, the dev probably didn’t even know what he was developing.
Just find an alternative to it. There are a lot that are free or/and Open-source.
It’s not that easy for corporate environments, but yes, IT departments need to push back, this is pretty fucked up
That’s how it works with Microsoft. Even search in Windows disregards completely your default browsers settings into opening them straight in Edge.
I mean, do people actually use the search feature for anything besides looking for files IN your system?
And Microsoft thinks that if they don’t find the file we want them to search on a search engine we don’t use on a browser we don’t use.
Microsoft thinks that if you type the full word you must not actually be looking for the thing you typed
It also ignores the files and apps on your PC
They’re always ruining the UX to push their own system.
