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Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by hospitalJail »

acdha wrote: post #527
hospitalJail wrote: post #457

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That isnt factual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMA Google doesnt control RCS. Its a general format. Apple could implement RCS. At most, they are a loud voice. Any phone can adopt it. This is completely different from a closed imessage that cannot be adopted by others. Not to mention, imessage has been pretty anti-consumer with all their security problems, inability to accept high quality video, etc... None of this…

Google does control the proprietary extensions to RCS they use to try to catch up to iMessage on security and features. The developers of apps like Signal, etc. have been asking for access for many years but Google chose to exclude them as they try to build their user base. Similarly, most of the carriers in the US haven’t actually implemented it themselves - they’re just paying Google’s Jibe subsidiary to host it fo…

>proprietary extensions to RCS

Oof gross. Do you have any further reading? I couldn't find anything on it.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by gmerc »

Don’t get me started on the fucking gamification of the start menu with microsoft reward coins (+100 to try bing on edge) to drive microsoft internal team KPIs

This is as bad as Facebooks legendary QP abuse in metrics season that everyone used to win their PSC because we are talking about 300$ product here, Win11 PRO that is as crammed with adware - tiktok, instagram, office, onedrive, blah blah blah as in the worst days of steve balmer now.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by gmerc »

alvarezbjm-hn wrote: post #382
freeAgent wrote: post #332

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It must be a soul crushing job to spend all one’s time justifying anti-user features with corporate doublespeak.

For some people. For some of us it comes more naturally (Making BS statements to justify some hostile policy)

Nothing chatgpt can’t master tho. it’s a dead job

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Post by nhubbard »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #193
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #119

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I don't know if it's still happening, but for a while windows updates were helpfully "fixing" the EFI boot partition (or maybe it was a boot firmware thing, I never figured it out) by making windows primary and breaking my Linux entry . My friends would be like "do you want to play games?" and I'd be like "yeah hang on while I make some boot media so I can recover afterwards."

Windows 10 updated my laptop's BIOS and in the process reset it to defaults. This basically bricked my laptop. Yeah I know how to go in and set a boot drive again, but not everyone should have to understand how that works.

That's almost certainly your laptop manufacturer's fault. Dell pushes BIOS updates via Windows Update on a regular basis, and I've never had the settings reset because of said update. (source: I administer 80 Dell desktops, 40 Dell laptops, and 8 Dell servers)

However, I do feel your pain, I don't understand why other motherboard manufacturers don't save your existing BIOS settings. Asus and MSI, I'm looking at you all... why can't you just ask me instead of undoing my work?

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Post by mdhen »

dmitrygr wrote: post #317
trelane wrote: post #304

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Or you could run Linux on Linux hardware and get the full hardware support and sweet battery life without the Microsoft spyware.

> sweet battery life Linux has never been this, and likely never will be. On any hardware supported fully by both, Windows will always have better battery life. Back when I was a thinkpad user, i'd literally live in a vmware workstation linux VM on windows, and THIS had better battery life than linux natively on the same thinkpad.

It's actually gotten a lot better in the last 3 or so years. Especially with power-profiles-daemon. I think it's pretty much at par with windows at this point. Assuming you are running an up to date kernel.

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Post by diffeomorphism »

bombela wrote: post #344
dmitrygr wrote: post #317

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> sweet battery life Linux has never been this, and likely never will be. On any hardware supported fully by both, Windows will always have better battery life. Back when I was a thinkpad user, i'd literally live in a vmware workstation linux VM on windows, and THIS had better battery life than linux natively on the same thinkpad.

I came to assume the battery only exists to act as an uninterruptible power supply as I travel to the next power outlet ;) It feels like over the past 10y Linux only went from 2h to 3h of battery life. While MacBook went from 3h to 13h.

Battery life of hackintoshes never was that impressive or was it? But if you want apples to oranges instead, then even in its very basic, hacky state linux on that macbook gets 8-10 hours:

https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1500039345142923269?la...

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by worksonmine »

gmerc wrote: post #602

Don’t get me started on the fucking gamification of the start menu with microsoft reward coins (+100 to try bing on edge) to drive microsoft internal team KPIs This is as bad as Facebooks legendary QP abuse in metrics season that everyone used to win their PSC because we are talking about 300$ product here, Win11 PRO that is as crammed with adware - tiktok, instagram, office, onedrive, blah blah blah as in the worst…

Just a matter of time until you get to unlock RAM and storage from your own hardware by completing chores, "Make Edge your default browser to unlock +1GB of RAM".

I haven't touched Windows in a decade and don't miss a single thing. Every computer literate user should make the switch.

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Post by procarch2019 »

1ain0n_dev wrote: post #87
procarch2019 wrote: post #63

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I think anyone using outlook is probably using it out of necessity for work. Not everyone can just jump to Linux when they work in a company.

Do you not have different machines for work and personal use?

I don’t do more work outside of my professional work.

I get away with just my phone and an iPad for everything else.

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Post by procarch2019 »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #303
procarch2019 wrote: post #63

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I think anyone using outlook is probably using it out of necessity for work. Not everyone can just jump to Linux when they work in a company.

Doesn't Outlook have a web version?

It does, but the applications and environments I need to use are Windows only anyway.

IT policy also doesn’t let us have anything other than Windows. I could skirt it for the day to day stuff, but I wouldn’t want to maintain my setup in multiple places anyway

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Post by procarch2019 »

bad_username wrote: post #590
procarch2019 wrote: post #63

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I think anyone using outlook is probably using it out of necessity for work. Not everyone can just jump to Linux when they work in a company.

Thunderbird works pretty well with Office365 accounts.

I’ll have to check it out, but sometimes I think I should just lean in to all the MS integrations.

I do like OneNote and use the ‘Send to OneNote’ for meeting notes all the time.

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