Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
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Microsoft is ignoring browser choice again

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.

  • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    “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.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Technically, yes, lizard people diverge from ordinary human neurological make-up and marketers are all lizard people.

      • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        For real though, someone developed this feature. Like, how soul-crushing must that be, developing such blatant anti-features.

        • Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.mlBEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          Eh, considering how MS wotks internally, the dev probably didn’t even know what he was developing.