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.

  • @light5speed
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    1211 months ago

    Microsoft always pushing things way too much, unnecessarily.

    But I actually like the feature. I use Outlook for corporate email and Edge for work related stuff. Firefox is my default browser. It was always confusing to open a link on an email message on the “wrong” browser.

    Now this doesn’t happen. Links on emails open correctly on the work browser.

    But we should definitely have an option to choose which browser we would like the links to open on.