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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by kbenson on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:40PM (#35804498)
That's sort of like condemning all of the U.S. because one state does something you don't agree with. In a large organization different departments may do different things and have different incentives, and until they overstep too much may have quite a bit of autonomy.

Considering all actions taken as part of some overarching plan is probably assuming too much. Some actions probably are towards some larger strategy, but myriad other ones are likely sub-level decisions. Always looking at large corporations such as Microsoft as one entity with a cohesive goal is easy, but it's also simplistic, which doesn't always yield a useful and productive discussion.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by JohnFen on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:56PM (#35808321)
> That's sort of like condemning all of the U.S. because one state does something you don't agree with.

It's more like condemning all of the US because it has implemented a national policy that only one state really wanted.

It doesn't matter that only one state wanted it. It's still national policy and thus fair game to criticize the entire nation for.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by kbenson on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @08:01PM (#35809528)
Is it a company wide policy that Microsoft apps open links in edge, or a Teams and Edge thing?

Do office apps open links in edge? Does VS code?

If they do, then I agree with you. If they don't, then I don't, for what should be obvious reasons.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by JohnFen on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:31AM (#35817007)
If a company has implemented it in a product that is publicly released, it's a company policy even if only the dev team was responsible for it.
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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by kbenson on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:05PM (#35822075)
Eh, no. That's a reach. A company policy would be something that the whole company is expected to follow. If only the teams that coordinated on it follow it, that's not a policy in any way, it's just a choice that a portion of the company made, it could be something that the company doesn't care about one way or another or it could be something that wasn't addressed prior to release (if you think every decision a team makes gets complete review and is totally understood, I think you're wrong).
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