This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

  • ditty
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    111 year ago

    So there’s also this neat feature in Microsoft Office where if you insert a hyperlink to a Google Doc/Sheets/Slides/Forms, Microsoft appends URIs to the end that prevents the link from opening in browsers other than Edge/IE. It can be corrected with a registry edit, but it’s been an issue for years and years at this point. Super annoying!

    • Natanael
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      1 year ago

      Or another fun thing I recently saw at work, Microsoft changing Office programs to always open links in Edge by default so you have to edit a setting to make it open the default browser again - which caused a significant productivity loss when people suddenly had various intranet pages opened in a browser they were not logged into, and they all had to contact support to get the original sane behavior back.

      Microsoft is being run by marketing teams with hubris these days, there’s absolutely no way they’re testing these things with real humans before release.