MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by trinsic2 on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:09PM (#35807838)

LOL, you are so right on that, average users do not understands the issues at hand about this, we need some kind of movement that better explains the issue.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by rtsil on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:47PM (#35809410)

And yet average users fled IE en masse as soon as they had a (back then) good alternative. There is still hope!

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by grey_earthling on Thursday May 04, 2023 @07:35AM (#35813833)

I'm not sure they fled IE as such. They saw a link (advert) on Google that said “make your internet better” and they clicked it.

Yes, some techies actively chose Chrome knowing full-well what the alternatives were, but I'm pretty sure the advertising produced much greater numbers.

(Also, the techies who enthusiastically recommended Chrome were the same ones who enthusiastically recommended Twitter a few years later, and are now enthusiastically recommending Signal — which illustrates the quality of their judgement when it comes to monopolies.)

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by screamin_jesus on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:46PM (#35880810)

Techies enthusiastically recommended chrome because it was by far the most stable and responsive and secure browser.

Prior to quantum, firefox was a dog, and let's not talk about internet explorer...

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