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.
“Suddenly”? This has been happening for a long time. If you click on outbound links from built-in Windows apps, they used to always open in Edge unless you used a tool named EdgeDeflector to redirect them to your preferred browser. In 2021, they killed EdgeDeflector by making it impossible to redirect links with the
microsoft-edge://protocol baked in, even if you go deep into the registry settings to change this. They will eventually do this to Outlook and Teams too and get away with it, just like they got away with restricting EdgeDeflector.There is a new tool that stops this:
https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect
But, yeah, this shouldn’t need to exist
It really shouldn’t. Someone should give that dev a break
Oh hey, it’s the dev! Thanks for making that, it’s incredibly helpful!
You’re welcome!
Yes suddenly. This basically started happening at work within the last week for no apparent reason.