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Re:Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Reve... by kop316 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:16PM (#19321703)
Heh. This reminds me of something else with using Microsoft. My employer uses Office365 with a smart card authentication for email. In order to use the encryption features, you have to enable an activeX plugin from Microsoft. Microsoft Edge does not trust the Microsoft published plugin and disables it every time I boot up Edge (EDIT: I should note even when I attempt to enable it, it shows up as "disabled" on the extension tabs, and I have never gotten encryption/signing working on Edge). It only works on Internet Explorer (which Microsoft is actively trying to get people off).

I get the impression they don't do extensive Q&A with their products.

Re:Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Reve... by JoshuaJB on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:39PM (#19321962)
Eh, half the problem is that there are far too many options to maintain, many of them legacy. Smart card authentication has worked great in Edge on Office 365 for years without any plugins at Microsoft, so I imagine your employer has got the wrong box checked somewhere triggering a fall back to ActiveX.
Re:Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Reve... by ska on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:53PM (#19322661)

   Eh, half the problem is that there are far too many options to maintain
In microsofts case, this is partially self-inflicted, and cultural.
Re:Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Reve... by jdsully on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:43PM (#19323162)
Enterprises want options. How else are they going to disable solitaire and make work as miserable as possible?
Re:Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Reve... by kop316 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:56PM (#19322158)
So the smart card authentication works (I can log in), it's using the smart card to encrypt/sign emails.
Re:Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Reve... by JoshuaJB on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:06PM (#19323378)
Oh, I could certainly see that. I don't recall encryption/signing working very well in the best of cases. If you haven't yet, I'd suggest submitting a bug report (I think there's a button somewhere in the O365 web interface). ActiveX is very deprecated and likely will be removed from Edge as part of the move to Chromium (just my personal speculation - I don't know if that's the official plan).