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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

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Post by lowercased »

coldpie wrote: post #123
hospitalJail wrote: post #86

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Apple sells the ability to be part of an 'in-group'. People don't buy their phones for their computing abilities, they do it to have access to other Apple users. Its a psychology trick that took decades of marketing to pull off, but they are deeply entrenched as someone's identity. These users have a religious devotion and will defend them, because an attack on Apple is an attack on them and their group. If you don't…

I don't know whatever weird psychology junk you're talking about. I bought an iPhone Mini because it's literally the only phone on the market that fits in the human hand. iOS sucks and I'd love to go back to Android, but there are zero Android phones of a usable size available for purchase. So iPhone it is.

> but there are zero Android phones of a usable size available for purchase. So iPhone it is.

My local dollar store has a couple of prepaid android 5.5" phones. Not much size diff from my iphone 12 mini.

Point still taken though - 'regular' sized phones from 6 years ago are mostly gone from the mainstream market. I really hope there's another mini or a bumped up iphone se. I would like them to keep the physical home button with touch id as well. Or maybe a touch id sensor someplace else...?

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

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Post by skeaker »

frob wrote: post #4

Windows 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.

I wonder why in these threads nobody ever says to just pirate Windows. It's not hard to do. Sometimes people will float security concerns but it's a safe process if you just load an official ISO and then crack it, and even if it were questionable on the security front it's not like you're doing anything that really needs that sort of security if you're just playing video games. If Windows is going to make itself mandatory for some games but they're also going to pull nonsense like in the OP, piracy seems like a reasonable option to voice your objections without abstaining completely.

And yes there are also ways to stop data collection if you're concerned about giving that to them.

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

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Post by COGlory »

Aleklart wrote: post #188
RGBCube wrote: post #43

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Sure, Ubuntu is still a level-up from Windows, but it isn't really the best Linux experience - Canonical isn't all that great. I would recommend Fedora if you want the bleeding edge or Debian if you want a super stable system (Or NixOS stable, but NixOS is kind of hard to get started using).

RedHat also has been declared isn’t all that great recently. Looks like only decent operating system remains is MacOS, others are highly specialised, like BSD, box of unfinished toys like most of Linux distros, betas as Windows 11 or ads and spyware infested services upsell platform: android, windows again, redhat and ubutu..

What's wrong with openSUSE or Debian?

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

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Post by COGlory »

jjoonathan wrote: post #41
moss2 wrote: post #35

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You don't need Windows for gaming any more. Ubuntu 22.04 comes with graphics drivers. Steam has Steam Play and Lutris has a huge library of install scripts, so everything is handled for you. The one thing you will need to do occasionally is experiment with different Wine distributions. This means you will need to right click on your game and select the distribution from a drop-down box. Exhausting, I know.

Did linux eventually get HDR support or is it still one (of many) sacrifices you make to game on linux?

It's in progress, but it's one of very few sacrifices you make. Anti-cheat is really the only other one of note, and many games are now supporting anti-cheat on Linux.

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Post by theandrewbailey »

ninju wrote: post #82
rationalist wrote: post #33

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Is Bill Gates still involved with Microsoft, I thought he retired to run his foundation?

Bill Gates' involvement with Microsoft fully stopped on June 27, 2008 -- 15 years to the date

He was still involved after that, because he was on the board until 2020.

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

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Post by hutzlibu »

marcosdumay wrote: post #262
hutzlibu wrote: post #242

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EU can only implement laws regarding companies doing buisness in europe. EU cannot tell Microsoft in general what to do.

It can tell what Microsoft does in Europe. But, of course, MS can always decide to abandon the region instead of complying too.

That "region" is a very big market. So that is not really an option for them. On the other hand large parts of the economy and government in the EU are totally dependant on Microsoft products and would be screwed if they would pull the plug.

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

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Post by peppermint_gum »

andrewcamel wrote: post #251

This is reminiscent of the USA vs Microsoft case in 2001... I wonder how much the antitrust team at Microsoft gets a say in product decisions like this. Just feels like they're toeing a line... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... . Also definitely not in the best interest of users, which isn't the Satya Nadella way of operating, at least not as demonstrated in the developer tools side of t…

> Also definitely not in the best interest of users, which isn't the Satya Nadella way of operating, at least not as demonstrated in the developer tools side of the business.

Oh yes, good tsar, bad boyars.

Whenever Microsoft does something good, like open-sourcing some dev tool, it's because of Nadella. But he isn't responsible for the state of Windows. If only someone told him about the forced telemetry, forced updates, forced Microsoft account login, pushing Edge down users' throats, and so on... I'm sure he would fix all those problems, but sadly, he doesn't know. And it's just a coincidence that all this stuff intensified when he became the CEO.

I even saw a comment on HN saying that it's "Ballmer loyalists" who are truly at fault for the current state of Windows.

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

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Post by ljm »

dizhn wrote: post #250
post-it wrote: post #116

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And it'll inevitably turn itself back on after a mandatory upgrade, just like all the other user-hostile things you can turn off.

Like android playstore notifications. You can turn them off sure. But you'll keep getting the notification that reminds you to turn them on. You only have to say yes once. But it dutifully asks you again and again if you say no to something. These things have become so yawn to me these days.

As has been the case for the past 10 years or so, UX consistently plays second-fiddle to analytics.
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