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

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

#5
Because they can do that. No surprises there and as I said before, Microsoft has not 'changed' as the methods are different but the strategy has always been the same and they have gotten very clever over the decades.

As long as their stock goes up, techies are always last place.

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

#6
I have no skin in the game, but even I am starting to think the obvious thing here:

Apple and Google own the entire mobile OS market. They could literally destroy Microsoft if they started to hugely degrade the experience of Microsoft products on iOS and Android with dark patterns a la Microsoft. But they don't. So far they were competing by making their own products better. Microsoft needs to think hard how hostile they want to be to its competitors and users, because two people can play this game. I don't get Microsoft, have they no pride or desire to become a great company? Have they just become content to be an old corporate software house who only manages to keep users through dark patterns and anti-competitive behaviour because they have given up on making products which people enjoy to use?

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

#8
What’s crazy is that edge is actually a really good browser. Some of the features they have wacked on top of chromium are awesome.

Especially when deploying it for a small business. It allows for easy integration with azure, profile syncing etc.

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

#9

I have no skin in the game, but even I am starting to think the obvious thing here: Apple and Google own the entire mobile OS market. They could literally destroy Microsoft if they started to hugely degrade the experience of Microsoft products on iOS and Android with dark patterns a la Microsoft. But they don't. So far they were competing by making their own products better. Microsoft needs to think hard how hostile…

Not to give Microsoft an out here but really?

The equivalent for this on iOS or Android would be allowing opening links in a different browser and web view engine.

The equivalent Microsoft apps on mobile OSs aren't degraded - they aren't even allowed to exist in the first place.

Microsoft is bringing the desktop experience in line with mobile here. Doesn't make it less terrible but contrasting Apple and Google as better actors in this sense is an odd take.

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

#10

Starting to think MSFT have completely forgotten the days of the browser choice button. Wonder when we'll see that again...

I just saw some clickbait article this week that said by some metric I don't remember, desktop safari moved to number two (presumably number one is Google Chrome) beating Microsoft Edge.

I remember how reaction was relatively swift with Apple and book publishers' illegal collusion even though Apple was not a major player yet, or maybe I am just wrong on this which is possible, I didn't follow the news closely.

In any case, I think Microsoft is doing a fine job by itself getting people turned off on edge by adding all sorts of bloatware that I doubt people will use edge as their only web browser.

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