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Would be nice to be able to remove edge totally from windows
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Submitted 1 year ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 year ago
BC Uninstaller
Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
remove windows
moody@lemmings.world 1 year ago
I don’t know how it is in Win11, but in Win10 it’s possible to remove Edge via the AppX package manager.
downpunxx@kbin.social 1 year ago
simply begging for antitrust charges
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
They’re not really in the dominant market position they were in back in the 90s.
HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Still wadi g back into to pool by overriding system settings forcing people to use your browser.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Walk into an office building and show me where all the non Microsoft OS and office365 work is please
gamey@feddit.rocks 1 year ago
They abuse their dominent market position as OS vendor in this case, I don’t see why their position in the internet nrowser market dhould matter for that!
Tenthrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are in the office software space.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For those that haven’t found the fix:
Outlook Options -> Advanced-> File and browser preferences -> Open hyperlinks from Outlook in:
you can select your default browser or Edge.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s for Outlook. This article is about Teams.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes. And I’m trying to spread the outlook fix because it’s far more annoying than teams has been so far
donut4ever@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Only time I use windows and anything microsoft is at work, and there I don’t care what they do, not my computer. I’m very thankful for Linux and the open source community in general.
UnPassive@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Similar boat, but it still pains me using Windows at work. I’m constantly frustrated at work when I accidentally open something in Edge. Not my computer, but still my experience
donut4ever@lemm.ee 1 year ago
And that’s ok. Don’t let it bother you. Not your computer. It literally has zero effect one me. It does get frustrating at times when things just break out of nowhere and I wish it were Linux because I know more about it and I can fix it faster, but oh well, I guess I’m learning another OS to add to my resume.
Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
The way Microsoft is just ignoring the user’s default browser choice makes me not want to use edge ever.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like they are pushing their Edge browser over the edge… - in our company (also totally reliant on MS365), Edge sets itself as default browser after every reboot, no matter what you said before (we also have Firefox ESR as an alternative browser).
Every link clicked in Teams is processed in Edge via some kind of “safe links” checking. They probably sell it as advanced security, but it makes you feel like a five year old, as if you wouldn’t know what you are clicking on…
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
The first thing sounds like your company has badly-designed Group Policies?
UnPassive@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You could think of it as the companies fault, you can combat Microsoft if you have the know how, but personally I feel like Microsoft is abusing their power by strongly coercing users to use their services.
gamey@feddit.rocks 1 year ago
Where is the EU when you need them?!
min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
Busy trying to get Apple to let people use a browser other than Safari at all.
gamey@feddit.rocks 1 year ago
Let’s hope Apple just ends up leaving our market!
gamey@feddit.rocks 1 year ago
As if bundeling Teams with their office software wasn’t bad enough, they need a fist in the face o weak up!
Odiousmachine@feddit.de 1 year ago
They’re probably warming up in the background and striking when you don’t see it coming.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
What’s the point of a default browser if individual apps are going to override it?
FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same thing I’ve asked myself since Windows 95.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Did apps ignore the default browser setting in Windows 95? I remember things being way more consistent back then.
Apps looked more consistent too. Way too many apps are custom-rendered these days, and look completely different to regular native apps on the system. (it doesn’t help that Windows has multiple officially-supported UI toolkits at the moment)
FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This already happens with other file types. For example, if you click something from your widgets, it is a file type that forces Edge to be opened. Other browsers can’t open it. Microsoft is trying to make Edge its new Internet Explorer. I mean, just click on the Weather widget. See what app opens. Try to make another browser open it by default. You can’t on Windows 11. Smells like anti-trust courtroom action, take three.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro installed, but Edge takes back over as the default PDF viewer just about weekly.
And if I download a PDF and try to open it in the “downloads” menu, it always opens in the no matter what I do.
Just let me open my shit in it’s native software. Edge can’t even edit a goddamned PDF - why would ANYONE want it to be the default?
FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah. When I was using windows I just refused to install adobe and used Firefox as my default pdf viewer. It took me some time to figure it out. Adobe doesn’t care that they invented the pdf last Millenium. They just want in on the Microsoft bucks. Those two must have some boardroom deal.
bleistift2@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yaay, I look forward to links opening in Edge, where the app that’s FUCKING PROTECTED BY A LOGIN won’t have my session, because I opened it in chrome, and I CANNOT LOG IN BECAUSE MY PASSWORD IS STORED IN A PASSWORD MANAGER that’s not installed in edge.
SUPER USEFUL
lorez@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The Memento of bookbinders.
esc27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t hate links opening in Edge, but I loathe the stupid split panel crap. What moron at Microsoft thinks I need a copy of the email,message,whatever that I just read AND STILL HAVE OPEN IN OUTLOOK taking up space in the browser?
JBloodthorn@kbin.social 1 year ago
This is from the same company that coded the behaviour into Teams such that if I take a deliberate action to hide the meeting window, it pops up a smaller on-top window. But if I just click another window (potentially on accident), it does not.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
A lot of talk of antitrust in this thread.
Unfortunately while this behaviour is disgusting and unethical, it’s not exploiting a dominant market position to stifle competition.
To do so teams would need to be in a position of dominance, which (thankfully for anyone forced to use this garbage) it’s simply not.
This sucks, but don’t count on the government doing anything to fix it.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
As someone else mentioned, the weather app does it too on windows 11. Who knows what else? It is exploiting their control of the OS to stifle competition if they’re making it so it’s harder to use the competition’s products. Sure, teams isn’t in a domoninant position, but Microsoft and Windows are. To imply this is just about teams is to ignore the bigger picture. What if they made it so you couldn’t add shortcuts to other browsers? Clearly that’d be too far, right? What’s the difference between that and not allowing links to be opened by another browser?
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
IOS didn’t allow you to set a default browser other than Safari for years and still doesn’t allow third party browsers to use their own web rendering engine.
If the DoJ don’t care about that, they done care that Teams ignores your default browser.
Again, I don’t condone what they’re doing. I just doubt the Justice department will care.
zik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MS lost a very similar anti-trust case in the EU in 2010 about IE being part of Windows.
efftee@kbin.social 1 year ago
time_fo_that@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is the way
zik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And it’s only a few years ago that court action stopped them from doing this same thing with IE. www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/…/microsoft
Countmacula@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Teams is the worst application I have ever used. I mean Skye wasn’t a godsend by any stretch but Jesus Christ
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Teams is terrible, but I’d put SharePoint above it on the scale of awfulness. Hate, hate, HATE using SharePoint.
Countmacula@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sharepoint doesn’t give me a ton of issues but i really only use it as a glorified onedrive.
Yepthatsme@kbin.social 1 year ago
Microsoft is poison. It’s the bully in school that gets bullied back and instead does underhanded shit that it sometimes gets away with because daddy owns the principal.
Tenthrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe Microsoft will get broken up properly this time.
FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 1 year ago
How bout them monopolies?
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 1 year ago
I don’t know if I was part some A/B test or what, but my outlook defaulted to opening links in edge with the email in a sidebar some weeks ago.
It was an unpleasant surprise.
radix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same thing happened with links in Outlook a few weeks ago. After the first 3-4 attempts, I finally saw the option to turn it off.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Can we please keep these post to sysadmin community. Literally nobody gives a shit about teams outside of work and guys like us can’t change IT policy. Like at my work there’s only few IT guys, so they default to using MS products as the business won’t increase their budget to manage and test other apps.
thenicnet@kbin.social 1 year ago
I find this mildly infuriating, so I think it fits here.
sep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is nothing “mild” about the fury I have for teams.
dezmd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
OP is a dupe bot, literally mirrored my original technology post, screenshot and word for word text like it was his own.
Original: lemmy.world/post/3600463
Brewtown138@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Edge is superior these days anyways. The problem is Team
dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Superior to what exactly? Performance wise, privacy wise, and UI wise, Firefox destroys Edge.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
weren’t they forcing everything to open in edge anyways and if you try to uninstall edge you can break a lot of stuff
buttscream@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My teams takes me to MSN for any link I click on. I asked my IT department and they couldn’t fix it so I get to copy and paste and link I need to use.
Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Well this will really blow your skirt up: Teams runs in Edge (WebView) already.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like MS is trying to run afoul of anti-trust laws, again.
AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They can read the room, the US government is pathetic.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Late stage capitalism: The corporations are the government.
Final stage capitalism: an absolute fusion of corporation and state, where the fascist party commands the nations capital/industry/corporations as though they are business units of the state; existing solely to benefit whatever megalomaniac happens to lead them at that point in time.
Angius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If the antitrust laws don’t do anything to Safari on iOS, they won’t do anything to Edge on Windows.
Elohim@lemm.ee 1 year ago
iOS allows you to change the default browser, a key aspect that this change to Teams circumvents.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s, like, their whole business model
lichtmetzger@feddit.de 1 year ago
They were forced by the EU to add a browser choice option in Windows XP so users can easily get rid of IE. A few years later and they try the same shit all over again.
insert GTA San Andreas meme here
panda_paddle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe, but it’s not like everyone doesn’t just install the browser from the Goliath of the industry. Which at this point seems redundant, since they may as well be the same browser.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’ve already done this in Outlook. It opens the web page in Edge and the email in a side panel. I don’t really like it but I’ve not mustered up the energy to find out how to fix it. It did ask me if I wanted to turn the feature off the other day but I’d already shut that pop up down before I realised what it was.