Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings

Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 1241 points – 12 months ago

Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry

Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.

Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.

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Outlook has a separate setting for opening links. It's very sneaky:

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/outlook-hyperlinks-edge-default-browser/

Thats a helpful pointer, thanks :)

Thanks for this. Turns out they also made it hard to make anything other than Edge your default browser (you have to set it separately for each file extension). How to fix that here:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-default-web-browser-windows-11