Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings
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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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Sort of related, but this reminds me of a really annoying thing that’s been happening on my work windows 11 machine.
Any time I launch chrome from VSCode to attach a debugger, edge launches along with it, and directs me to a page that says “try the new bing.”
Absolutely infuriating, makes me want to uninstall edge.
I mean, why not just uninstall edge then?
Good luck with that lmao
You can absolutely do it, the one that comes to mind is a small batch file you can download that disables it. I know there's plenty of other ways too though if you're not comfortable with that