Microsoft to Force Web Links Shared in Teams to Open with Microsoft Edge

A browser so good they have to force their captive audience to use it.

Microsoft got screwed by antitrust officials for only putting it's browsers in new windows installs 20 years ago. Antitrust enforcement is a fucking joke in this country now.

This shit makes me want to quit IT. Technology is no longer helping humans. Technology is controlled by capitalist cunts.

At my org, edge for all outlook links rolled out last week. Not only does it not let you use your default browser, half of the screen is taken up with a popup asking to make edge your default every time!

MS definitely didn’t get in trouble for this in the past and this time it’s going to work out

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Didn't this very same issue result in MS being called a monopoly all those years ago. And now they are right back at it again.

I don't have Microsoft edge on my Linux system. :)

Fucking Microsoft, they could right now be the beacon of the Internet right now, had they chosen Firefox as the base of their browser.

I'd actually be using it, as a counter to Chrome.

But no, of course they had to go with chromium and just become another dicksucker.

Didn't Microsoft lose a large anti trust court case about this shit for internet explorer? So we're just going the same route again because fuck the law and fuck our customers?

In any case, I am forced to use teams and since I run Linux I use it in chrome as the teams executable is just non workable.

Besides that, who in their right mond used teams? It's a bit of a rhetorical question, my org uses it (for the moment, still) and it is godawful.

Teams on browsers is a fucking joke. Want gasp two tabs open with chats? Oh nononononon, Can't have that! We'll helpfully display an all page hiding modal asking you "are you still here?" on one of these tabs (almost always, but in typical Microsoft fashion, not always always) and if you click "I'm back" we'll helpfully reload that page. Since many pages don't have their unique URL, as they should because that is how the internet works, the reload just kicks you out of what you were doing... Were you in an important meeting? Well now you're not anymore with mo way to get back unless maybe your boss tries to add you back himself.

Camera randomly just disappears, when you go into a preplanned call sometimes half the people end up in different chats, ahw whatever. I have a long, LONG list of other bugs and not enough energy to write it all down again

People should NOT use teams and should NOT use any Microsoft software, it's all shit. I use Linux for servers and its all fast and easy. i use Linux for desktop and I never have to deal with any of the Microsoft shit

how much more IT guys want to be abused before switching to linux in companies, it's not like they use something windows exclusive, only if it's the insecurities

For the last X number of years, I've listened to people proclaim how Microsoft has changed, they're not the '90s Microsoft anymore. They make things open source! They're putting Linux in Windows now instead of trying to murder Linux! They're not doing Internet Explorer things anymore! You old Slashdot readers are stuck in the past!

'90s Microsoft sends their regards.

So glad I don't have to use Windows at work

will open web links from Teams chats in Microsoft Edge to enable a new web and chat side-by-side experience.

I am so sick and tired of this fluffy language every tech company uses these days. "New experience" this, "New experience" that, the only new experience I want is the experience of kicking a shoe up Nadella's ass.

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I used Edge during beta and upon release. It's a decent browser. But Microsoft started adding their bloat to it and now just throws it in my face every chance they get. I no longer use Edge as a result.

Curious but what if I remove Edge from the machine?

Fuck Teams. It's the shittiest experience out of all the options. Discord is better, that's how bad it is.

Got affected by this, and the Edge literally showed a notification bar on how to disable this (as a user). So, slightly annoying but not too big of an issue as users can opt out right away.

I would be so frustrated working for a company like Microsoft when forced to write software “features” like this.

The business of M$ just fucking sucks

Good luck trying to open it on Edge when it's blocked from installing via policy

me: panik me 5s later realizing I'm on Linux: kalm

Such low, sad tactics. I've just converted an old MacBook to Linux. It'll be good to not have to deal with these shenanigans.

But why is this the same people that brought us the windows terminal, azure, vscode and improvements to python? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Deja vu anyone?

"I can't do X in blackboard"

"Are you using edge?"

"Yes"

"Install Firefox and use that, it will fix the problem"

Edge just doesn't work well with some sites; those of us without admin powers are going to have a very rough time trying to work around this.

Just gonna drop this here https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect

Litigation in 3... 2... 1...

MS being MS. The way they have been advertising Edge and pushing users to use edge have been crazy. They literally made it impossible to change default browsers in Windows 11 for a while and made it default when start/search is used to open links. They will keep re-installing Edge even if you remove it.

I'm still grateful that my W10 LTSC has been rocking solid for 2 years now. Less crapware.

Sadly my workplace recently standardised on Edge with most users being barred from using anything else. So this is just gonna be seen as cool innovation there, most likely. Probably the same in any MS-based business.

Should never have switched off slack

Thanks for the heads up. Just disabled it across our whole organisation :D (assuming Microsoft honours the policy)

I also hate how every time I accidentally open Edge it shits a search bar onto my desktop

The experience is the shittiest.

Lol. I would have to install edge.

Has Microsoft publicly commented on Google's WEI?

That's what happens to people using Windows and other Microsoft products.

My goodness this is dumb. I thought that while Apple was not above stuff like this, at least MS doesn’t stoop to this level. I guess was wrong.

what a cool software product to use at work

Outlook defaults to it as well I believe, but you can change it to open with the default browser in your apps settings.

Good luck forcing that when I don't even have edge installed.

At this point any person or company using Microsoft products deserves a boot the the back of the head.

..So everybody

Oh what a surprise! You know what's funny, is one time i compiled an app with pyinstaller but used the encrypted flag and some ip address from WA and microsoft were loading my executable all the time.... Not just visiting the download site, but running the actual EXE in some kind of automatic way I assume.

Guess I'm going to have to start advocating that my department stop using Teams for communication. This is just dumb

If yiu willingly use Teams you deserve this.

Any reason to not being using edge? Better performance than the other two, with more features

I, for one, welcome this. I have edge for everything work-logging related and Firefox for other sfw stuff (search for info for my work and occasional yt/reddit).

This will make it a bit easier, but I guess I'm a special case.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not happy it's mandated, but it just happens to do something I will use in my windows work machine. I don't use teams, edge or windows 11 otherwise