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Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Heh, I actually really like it for work. With a adblocker of course, I'm scared of your workplace.

Since its a Microsoft product, and any consulting firm wotlrth their salt works with Microsoft, it's actually really nice to open any link in teamdls and for everything to automatically log into the corporate account through the SSO. I'd about trackers at work, the while pc might be monitored for all I care.

At home that's a whole different thing though, brave with extra privacy stuff because I got tired of some pages not working in Firefox anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I dislike almost every Microsoft product, and always prefer the alternatives, but que sera sera. :) I don't doubt that it works.

    We're required to use Microsoft Teams at my office, and oy, what an endless annoyance. If you're in an MS environment all day, can you tell me how to make Teams understand that I've read something? All day every day, any time there's a message in Teams, I spend five seconds reading it, then ten seconds trying to get Teams to stop marking it "unread."

    Agreed about Firefox, except I love it so much I haven't given up on it. I just can't. Been using Firefox since 1957. When a site doesn't work, I jump to Chrome and it's almost invariably OK. Only a slight hassle, plus that I hate Chrome too.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    My trick with teams is to go to the notifications tab (the top one), and to click anything popping up there. Reactions are weird though, sometimes people's reactions don't show up there and I need to go to the chat, to the message they reacted, yeah these are annoying. Most of the time doing a swipe through the notifications tab is enough though.

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