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Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (10 children)

But are you sure you don't want to make Edge your default browser??

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Why do you think you need to download Chrome? Write a 500 word essay explaining how it's better than Edge.

    (For real, though, it's not. Use Firefox.)

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  • [+] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Your answer was 501 words, we have uninstalled all browsers except Edge and made Edge your default browser! Enjoy using Edge!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So there's also this neat feature in Microsoft Office where if you insert a hyperlink to a Google Doc/Sheets/Slides/Forms, Microsoft appends URIs to the end that prevents the link from opening in browsers other than Edge/IE. It can be corrected with a registry edit, but it's been an issue for years and years at this point. Super annoying!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Or another fun thing I recently saw at work, Microsoft changing Office programs to always open links in Edge by default so you have to edit a setting to make it open the default browser again - which caused a significant productivity loss when people suddenly had various intranet pages opened in a browser they were not logged into, and they all had to contact support to get the original sane behavior back.

    Microsoft is being run by marketing teams with hubris these days, there's absolutely no way they're testing these things with real humans before release.

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