Afternoon rant at Microsoft... html links
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elephanting rolling turds down the street.... so laptop had to update to the latest Windows 10 update. Update changed the default browser. Oh, but it gets better. Going to the default apps, it says Opera is the default browser. Click on a link in email, and I get edge - ewwwww. I don't know what POS from MS decided this, but I might trip your child or children on the playground. ----------------------------------------- So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it? As you know, I have recently entered therapy on browser tabs. So, oh wait, google reveals the truth. It turns out that Outlook now has its own default applications. Cute. Links default to edge. Tacky. One more excuse for me to change my email client. This is how I feel about crap like this: Microsoft Users engaging with stupid MS managers | Movieclips - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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elephanting rolling turds down the street.... so laptop had to update to the latest Windows 10 update. Update changed the default browser. Oh, but it gets better. Going to the default apps, it says Opera is the default browser. Click on a link in email, and I get edge - ewwwww. I don't know what POS from MS decided this, but I might trip your child or children on the playground. ----------------------------------------- So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it? As you know, I have recently entered therapy on browser tabs. So, oh wait, google reveals the truth. It turns out that Outlook now has its own default applications. Cute. Links default to edge. Tacky. One more excuse for me to change my email client. This is how I feel about crap like this: Microsoft Users engaging with stupid MS managers | Movieclips - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote:
might trip your child or children on the playground
Ah, I see ... more sentimentaltrashspeak?
well of course. Since I have a boatload of children and grandchildren it was just tongue in cheek. You don't visit the sins of the father or mother on their children. HOWEVER - I just updated the root post.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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elephanting rolling turds down the street.... so laptop had to update to the latest Windows 10 update. Update changed the default browser. Oh, but it gets better. Going to the default apps, it says Opera is the default browser. Click on a link in email, and I get edge - ewwwww. I don't know what POS from MS decided this, but I might trip your child or children on the playground. ----------------------------------------- So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it? As you know, I have recently entered therapy on browser tabs. So, oh wait, google reveals the truth. It turns out that Outlook now has its own default applications. Cute. Links default to edge. Tacky. One more excuse for me to change my email client. This is how I feel about crap like this: Microsoft Users engaging with stupid MS managers | Movieclips - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
I had MS Teams app close itself during an important meeting to update itself. I mean, WTF?!? Once I could reconnect to the meeting, almost 5 minutes later, I had to apologise. Luckily, they were still there waiting. Funnily, once I did restart the app, it proudly announced that it updated itself. pffft!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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I had MS Teams app close itself during an important meeting to update itself. I mean, WTF?!? Once I could reconnect to the meeting, almost 5 minutes later, I had to apologise. Luckily, they were still there waiting. Funnily, once I did restart the app, it proudly announced that it updated itself. pffft!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
Graeme_Grant wrote:
during an important meeting to update itself.
Last week minutes before a Zoom meeting, I fired up the laptop to be greeted by the 'Applying Updates...Please Wait' which took a few minutes. Finally, I get Outlook open to get the meeting link and when it opens Zoom, I am told that a new version was required to join the meeting. :wtf: Yep, I was late! (but thankfully not last) :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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elephanting rolling turds down the street.... so laptop had to update to the latest Windows 10 update. Update changed the default browser. Oh, but it gets better. Going to the default apps, it says Opera is the default browser. Click on a link in email, and I get edge - ewwwww. I don't know what POS from MS decided this, but I might trip your child or children on the playground. ----------------------------------------- So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it? As you know, I have recently entered therapy on browser tabs. So, oh wait, google reveals the truth. It turns out that Outlook now has its own default applications. Cute. Links default to edge. Tacky. One more excuse for me to change my email client. This is how I feel about crap like this: Microsoft Users engaging with stupid MS managers | Movieclips - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
charlieg wrote:
So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it?
IIRC, they've added separate settings to Outlook and Teams to override the default browser and use Edge instead. In Teams, it's under Settings ⇒ Files and links ⇒ Always open links in:, which they default to "Microsoft Edge" instead of "Default browser". I currently can't find the equivalent setting in the "new" Outlook desktop app, but I've definitely seen it in the "old" app. I expect we're supposed to be grateful that they give us the option to respect our selected defaults, even if they don't default to using our defaults. We'll probably find a future update removes the option and forces us to always use Edge, because not enough people with telemetry enabled have managed to change the option. :doh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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elephanting rolling turds down the street.... so laptop had to update to the latest Windows 10 update. Update changed the default browser. Oh, but it gets better. Going to the default apps, it says Opera is the default browser. Click on a link in email, and I get edge - ewwwww. I don't know what POS from MS decided this, but I might trip your child or children on the playground. ----------------------------------------- So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it? As you know, I have recently entered therapy on browser tabs. So, oh wait, google reveals the truth. It turns out that Outlook now has its own default applications. Cute. Links default to edge. Tacky. One more excuse for me to change my email client. This is how I feel about crap like this: Microsoft Users engaging with stupid MS managers | Movieclips - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
For me, when Edge opened, it opened with a pop-up that let you change it back immediately. But yeah, that is BS.
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elephanting rolling turds down the street.... so laptop had to update to the latest Windows 10 update. Update changed the default browser. Oh, but it gets better. Going to the default apps, it says Opera is the default browser. Click on a link in email, and I get edge - ewwwww. I don't know what POS from MS decided this, but I might trip your child or children on the playground. ----------------------------------------- So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it? As you know, I have recently entered therapy on browser tabs. So, oh wait, google reveals the truth. It turns out that Outlook now has its own default applications. Cute. Links default to edge. Tacky. One more excuse for me to change my email client. This is how I feel about crap like this: Microsoft Users engaging with stupid MS managers | Movieclips - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
I’ll pile onto this complaint with this: I use Foxit as my PDF reader. Every other day I get an alert that Foxit is not the default reader. When I go to the defaults config dialog, it shows Foxit is the default. What the elephant? You’ll probably always get Edge when opening a link from within a Microsoft app. Seems they’ve hard-coded it. Frustrating and just a little sad that their apps aren’t good enough on their merits, they have to strong-arm and trick you into using them. Corporations Rule! (unfortunately) :(
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel
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I had MS Teams app close itself during an important meeting to update itself. I mean, WTF?!? Once I could reconnect to the meeting, almost 5 minutes later, I had to apologise. Luckily, they were still there waiting. Funnily, once I did restart the app, it proudly announced that it updated itself. pffft!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
Couple of years ago we had a Windows 10 computer decide to update itself despite having been told to only do it on a schedule. It was the early days of W10 - I'm sure you remember the tales of people's laptops rebooting in the middle of presentations. This machine wan't even connected to the internet at the time, and hadn't been for several days, so it had downloaded an update but had saved it up, somehow. Anyway, it just went ahead and started the update process, except it stalled during the restart and we had to power cycle it and manually fix it. Took half an hour to get the update installed. Which doesn't sound too bad, until you realise that it was running the sound cues for a theatre performance and while it was sulking we were dead in the water. We had to abandon the performance and refund the audience. The Mac running Qlab arrived before the next show in the schedule. Shame, as the actual application it was running at the time (SCS) was quite a nice bit of software.
