We did the opposite. Teams is prevented from even installing any components by our endpoint security. Same with OneDrive.

The only downside is that Office installs have to be handled manually due to needing to click a couple errors screens. Office updates work fine, just new installs. Small price to pay.

Last year they fixed our group policy that repinned internet explorer to your taskbar on every boot.

We use teams, skype is still in our auto launch

Teams will load, and we don't use it. Even better, other things we do use will break if teams isn't logged into correctly.

And yet people think Linux (mint) is so hard to use and absolutely no replacement for windows.

Linux: go to app store, click install. Done

Windows: go to app store, click install done.

Literally the same process, only Linux doesn't randomly update your apps and make them crash. My windows installation at work literally had 3 outlook variants at some point (just like you mentioned) and none of them worked.

I literally never was forced to use the terminal in Linux (well I did but not because I had to) and in windows I have to do shitty things in the register to get back functions (like that terrible decision to hide the "refresh" in the context menu).

I genuinely think MS has gone down the enshittification route and I'm not just preaching to the choir. I have every day (sadly have to use it at work) annoyances with windows and Linux just works..

That narrows it down to 2 of the 2 options

I have to use a client-provided laptop from time to time, from a big ass org. Outlook stopped working recently, I called it in, they didn't even attempt a fix, just told me to use a browser instead lmao

Damn, and I thought having one instance of 365 Outlook launch on boot even tho they stopped paying for it was stupid.

New, or new new?