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 JohnFen on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:03PM (#35808395)

I think user agent strings were a terrible idea from the get-go, so I'm OK with Microsoft (and everyone else) fudging them this way. I think it'd be even better if everyone used the exact same UA string.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by tatersolid on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:35AM (#35811251)

> I think it'd be even better if everyone used the exact same UA string.

Then why send a UA string at all? Save the bytes on the wire.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by JohnFen on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:30AM (#35816974)

I agree -- I don't think the UA string should exist. But it does, so the next best thing is having everyone send the same string.

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