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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 kernal »

ho_schi wrote: post #108
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.

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 complet…

I have an even better solution. Just get Chromium to change their license to make it a requirement to always respect the user's chosen browser.

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

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Post by kernal »

scarface_74 wrote: post #458
Analemma_ wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That is on iOS, on MacOS they allow other browsers and respect the systemwide defaults. Why is that in any way exonerating? Most people do most of their actual computing on their phones now, it is not an irrelevant toy platform. We should be more, not less, hard on Apple than Microsoft for pulling this shit on their mobile platform.

Can I I stalk another browser on ChromeOS?

Open the Play Store on ChromeOS and pick any browser you want.

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

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Post by justsomehnguy »

thebruce87m wrote: post #474
flagrant_taco wrote: post #425

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Shipping a device that will overheat and reboot when the device is a couple years old and fixing it by silently throttling the device isn't pro consumer either Those devices really should have been recalled or offered a generous trade-in value to account for the fundamental design flaw

It has nothing to do with overheating. It is battery ageing. The internal resistance of a battery increases as it ages, leading to brownouts when peak current happens. The throttling feature still exists in iOS. All that’s changed is that you will be made aware that it’s happening and you can switch it off if you prefer a brownout when your battery is degraded. Other manufacturers are happy to let your handset reboot…

> It has nothing to do with overheating. It is battery ageing. The internal resistance of a battery increases as it ages, leading to brownouts when peak current happens

yawn Why my 8 years old Moto XT910 eat the battery like cookies but did not reboot? It's battery wasnot only old, but swollen a bit, it's USB port was damaged so sometimes the charge didn't actually happened... but it still could survive a couple of hours with enabled radio and GPS, serving a navigation app with 3G updates? And didn't reboot?

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

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Post by timbit42 »

vxNsr wrote: post #200

While obnoxious, they’re not doing anything truly nefarious under the hood: they’re just prepending every link with “edge://“ to open edge. This functionality was available to basically every single app since apps have become a thing, it might be interesting if other apps decided to force open chrome in response…

What would happen if you edited the binary from "edge://" to "http://"?

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

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Post by kernal »

codetrotter wrote: post #324
SebastianKra wrote: post #305

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Apple are experts are experts at creating these patterns that fall just at the edge of being classified as anti-consumer, to the point where you frequently find heated discussions about whether they are. Battery throtteling on the iPhone 6s; The sandboxing / sideloading discussion; The no-iCloud experience; The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better; How unauthorized Apps on MacOS…

Google seems just as bad tbh. The only browser I have installed on my phone is Safari but when I click links in YouTube it always asks which browser I want to open the link in. Safari or Chrome. No I don’t want to install your shit browser on my phone Google. Kindly frick off.

I don't want Apple's shitty AppStore on my iPhone. I'd like to replace it, but I can't because Apple doesn't think I should be able to install apps that aren't approved by Apple. They can go fuck off as well.

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

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Post by nipperkinfeet »

Microsoft's black patterns are starting to irritate me. This most recent incidence had an effect on several of our 365 users. Even with GPO, this still overrides the browser's default settings. Microsoft buried the option to set the browser to its default in the settings of Outlook. For every user, we must change it manually. We'll be searching for alternatives to Microsoft Office in the future.

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

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Post by trelane »

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.

> On any hardware supported fully by both

This hardware does not exist, or at least it's exceedingly rare. something most folks miss is that the OS supports the hardware (though for Windows it's more the drivers than the OS, but I digress), but equally (and perhaps moreso) the hardware supports the OS.

Modern hardware is full of code (almost always proprietary), in ACPI, in EFI, in the EC, in all the devices. You cannot (without significant engineering effort) make the hardware support both OSes equally.

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

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Post by 0xedd »

browningstreet wrote: post #471

I was looking at Distrowatch with my son.. lamenting at all the different distros, the distros I've never heard of, and the frequency of changes in the top 10 with distros I'm not familiar with. Free software devs are obviously free to do as they wish, but Apple vs Microsoft vs Google vs 100+ Linux distros wasn't going to lead to the outcome some of us were hoping for. We're looking at building a monster Davinci Reso…

The issue is that [non-tech] people don't go around changing OSes. So long as PCs come with a default of user-hostile-OS-1 or user-hostile-OS-2, the question of "Linux year of the desktop, when?" is invalid.

That said, be responsible where you put your money. My wife no longer uses iOS. I no longer use iOS or Android. Raspberry is a media server for TV.

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