What if you've removed Edge from your system?
Haha nice try.
Ready for a 15 minute long process that will restore itself in the future, not to mention trusting some random website for a guide.
Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
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Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#102The final straw for me and Windows was when I took the time to remove some annoying feature, cortana or edge, can't remember. Then an update replaced my work. It wasnt some 'uninstall program', but a multi-step process that involved registry editing. I don't feel like I have control over Windows.
You never had control over windows. Not since the ME/XP days. You don’t have control over MacOS either. The only OS you have any control over is Linux and even some of those you don’t.
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#103so this is their website, showing you how they document the way they taunt their own customers?
fucking lmao, linux since years ago don't care
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#104Right in the KB:
"Ultimately though, if this experience isn't right for you, you can turn off this feature the first time it launches in Microsoft Edge, and then in Outlook settings at any time after that."
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#105Isn’t the bigger issue that Edge is really just Chromium with a different UI (AFAIK)?
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#106Windows is just full of hostile, anti-user patterns these days. I've considered building a windows box just to have a gaming rig multiple times over the last few years, but every time an article like this or their crusade against Chrome reminds me that Bill Gates is still the same anti-trust monster he was in the 90s.
This is a niche but effective reason to get a console.
Alternatively, a Windows box locked down to LTSC.
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#107Its getting worse everywhere: some things I've noticed: Mobil Safari seems to be using the search bar to hijack my google search (Particularly for locations which open in apple maps) Although I'm mostly linux these days I went to install an alternative browser on a windows machine (using edge to download). I mentioned this in another post, but edge seems to watch for "chrome" or "firefox" downloads and politely remin…
I really don't like to use Edge, and I don't like imposed changes, however if you read the article, it says that it can be turned off, or am I missing something?
"Ultimately though, if this experience isn't right for you, you can turn off this feature the first time it launches in Microsoft Edge, and then in Outlook settings at any time after that."
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#108Windows is just full of hostile, anti-user patterns these days. I've considered building a windows box just to have a gaming rig multiple times over the last few years, but every time an article like this or their crusade against Chrome reminds me that Bill Gates is still the same anti-trust monster he was in the 90s.
Dear European-Union!
How about enforcing direct control about Microsoft business? Not just another “low” fine in the ten to twenty billion range. Just stopping Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon.
Enforcing AT&T to not enter any new business worked well. In consequence we got UNIX, C, open-source and documentation and finally the TCP/IP-stack of BSD, GNU and Linux. This had a positive effect for the complete computing industry and society. Reagan relaxed all rules, allowed AT&T to split up - the results were bad. No IT company had to fear any regulation afterwards, either politics didn’t want regulate or didn’t understand computing at all.
We don’t need this companies with too much power using incompatibility, vendor lock-in and storing away our data (the newest approach).
Chances for regulation Europe seem a little better? Less lobbyists and less tax money involved and people don’t believe in capitalism. Too late (10xtimes) and too little but at least they react.
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#109Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#110It took us half a day to roll back our systems to get rid of the new Outlook. It's a web based email client through an Edge browser window and it's awful. I do not want to use an Edge browser window to access email, I don't want to even have to see the edge browser at all.