alt Hacker NewsAs someone who has been primarily Mac for most of my life, I started using a Windows machine fairly recently for work.
I'm tied down to the Windows eco-system (Teams, Outlook, etc).
I still haven't gotten use to the idea of every link in Microsoft apps opening in Edge regardless of your settings.
This might seem like a small thing, but the entire UX seems to be designed around benefiting Microsoft, not the user.
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It is incredibly user hostile. And it's not even free. This is an ecosystem you pay for.
They're treating folks shelling out $200 for an OS as if they were cattle on the adtech train.
This is the fault of whoever is administrating your Windows machines, Teams and Outlook are perfectly capable of opening links in your configured default browser.
It's by design completely self serving. It's no longer a product for the users the users are the product.
Unfortunately I think it can and it will get a LOT worse before the push back will make any difference.
After all most users are not tech savvy and will be stuck with whatever is installed when they buy the machine and for the corporate there aren't any real alternatives.
>I'm tied down to the Windows eco-system (Teams, Outlook, etc)
All of them are available for the Mac.
> every link in Microsoft apps opening in Edge regardless of your settings.
fwiw, there is a setting in Teams itself to have it use your default browser instead, on top of having to change it on a system level. This does not work when using the PWA though