Just got this right before midnight in my MS Admin app alerts. If you dont configure the policy, in September it defaults to opening web links in Edge regardless of OS default browser setting.
I woke up this morning to One Drive doing its usual thing being HOT GARBAGE, now I’m going to bed with Teams becoming HOT GARBAGE.
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Web links from Microsoft Teams chats to open in Microsoft Edge; Teams chat will open side-by-side with link
MC669480
Plan for change
Published date: August 21, 2023
Affected services
Microsoft Teams
Tag
MAJOR UPDATEADMIN IMPACTNEW FEATUREUSER IMPACT
The Microsoft Teams desktop app for Windows will open web links from Teams chats in Microsoft Edge to enable a new web and chat side-by-side experience.
By opening web links in Edge, users will be able to see those links side-by-side with their Teams chats—web links will open as new browser tabs and the Teams chats will open next to them in the Edge sidebar. This new, single-view Teams experience in Edge is designed to minimize switching between windows and to help users stay in the flow of work while referencing web links.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126334.
This change to use Edge to open web links from Teams chats follows a similar, previously announced change in the Outlook for Windows app. Customers impacted by this change in Outlook were notified via MC541626, MC545904, or MC548092.
Admin controls are available as detailed below.
Read more about how we’re optimizing the experience between Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Edge:
What’s New in Teams | Microsoft Inspire 2023 Notes:
This change does not affect a device’s default browser setting in Windows.
This only affects commercial users signed into Teams with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) accounts.
The policy described in the following section configures which browser is used to open web links for both Teams (chat) and the Outlook for Windows app (email), or, if you did not receive an Outlook for Windows app Message center notification, this policy will only apply to Teams (chat).
When will this affect your organization:
Timing:
Microsoft Teams desktop app for Windows: This change will start rolling out late September.
Outlook for Windows: Roll out in progress. If this change affects your users, you will have received either MC541626, MC545904, or MC548092, and can refer to them for specific timing.
Note: Depending on your Outlook for Windows update channel, you may experience the change in Teams first. Action:
Use the Choose which browser opens web links policy to configure which browser will be used to open web links and to set whether users will be able to make changes to which browser opens web links in both the Teams desktop app for Windows (chat) and the Outlook for Windows app (email).
If you did not receive a message center notification for the Outlook for Windows app (email), then the setting only applies to Teams (chat).
If you did receive a message center notification for the Outlook for Windows app (email), then the setting applies to both Teams (chat) and Outlook for Windows app (email). You will not be able to manage each app individually using this policy. If you’ve previously configured this policy for the Outlook for Windows app and wish to maintain that configuration, no action is required.
Note: There are no Microsoft 365 subscription restrictions in using this policy to configure which browser opens web links in Teams.
Use of the policy to manage the change in the Outlook for Windows app depends on your Microsoft 365 subscription. If you received the Outlook for Windows app Message center notification, please refer to MC541626, MC545904, or MC548092 for details on whether configuring this policy will apply.
If you have not configured the policy, or wish to change it, find the details below. How this will affect your organization:
Links from Teams chats will open based on the browser configuration in the Choose which browser opens web links policy. If no configuration is selected using the Choose which browser opens web links policy, web links from Teams chats will open in Microsoft Edge.
Only links set to open via a web browser are affected. Links that are set to open in a client app or within Teams itself will continue to do so. User experiences will vary by policy configuration; please see the next section.
You can manage this experience at any time. What you need to do to prepare:
If you’ve previously configured this policy for the Outlook for Windows app and wish to maintain that configuration, no action is required.
Use the Choose which browser opens web links policy to configure which default browser will be used to open web links and to set whether users will be able to manage which browser opens web links in both Teams (chat) and the Outlook for Windows app (email). You will not be able to manage each app individually using this policy.
The Choose which browser opens web links policy is available using the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 (formerly the Office Cloud Policy Service) or as part of the Administrative Templates for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Enabled: Configures which browser opens web links from the Teams desktop app for Windows (chat) and the Outlook for Windows app (email):
Microsoft Edge
Web links will open side-by-side with users’ chat or email in Edge.
Default browser
Users will not be able to change this from the respective apps’ settings menus.
Disabled/Unconfigured: Web links from the Teams desktop app for Windows (chat) and the Outlook for Windows app (email) will open in Microsoft Edge.
Web links will open side-by-side with users’ chat or email in Edge.
Users can manage the browser change: Via the in-product notifications explaining the side-by-side experience.
At any time via the Teams settings menu: Settings > Files and links > Link open preferences
Note: If you want to manage this change for your entire organization so that Teams only opens web links using the device’s system default browser, you will need to configure the policy to Enabled and select Default browser.
Additional Information
Read more about how we’re optimizing the experience between Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Edge with this feature in our blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/16/discover-new-ways-to-multitask-with-microsoft-365-and-edge/
We always value feedback and questions from our customers. Please feel free to submit either feedback or questions via Message Center.
This shit makes me want to quit IT. Technology is no longer helping humans. Technology is controlled by capitalist cunts.
I’m out of software the first chance I get. I hate it. Tech is no longer fun and inventive, it’s exploitative and designed to milk the most money out of every user.
I don’t even particularly care about the capitalist part. I just find that the new things are no longer fun, but terrifying and causing anxiety about the future. I used to love keeping up with the newest stuff, but I already feel like a Luddite after the last few years
Don’t quit IT. Combine your abilities with other IT people and make new things that create competition.
how much more IT guys want to be abused before switching to linux in companies, it’s not like they use something windows exclusive, only if it’s the insecurities
So glad I don’t have to use Windows at work
I get to use a Mac for work. But they still require me to use Chrome, so…
Mac is the same. Linux is the only non bloated OS
Macs don’t force you to use a specific browser. That was my point. This isn’t really about bloatware.
Didn’t this very same issue result in MS being called a monopoly all those years ago. And now they are right back at it again.
Fucking Microsoft, they could right now be the beacon of the Internet right now, had they chosen Firefox as the base of their browser.
I’d actually be using it, as a counter to Chrome.
But no, of course they had to go with chromium and just become another dicksucker.
Even if they used Firefox or any other browser as a base I wouldn’t use it, it started as a decent browser but they just had to stuff it with cruft, they even took things they were offering as an extension and baked it in instead of letting people choose what they want to install on their PC.
of course they had to go with chromium and just become another dicksucker.
Interesting take to put Google higher on the list of fuckery corps than Microsoft, but what goes around comes around in different ways. I’d make a guess it’s more likely they’re just doing what they do, going full embrace and extend on chromium to dilute Chrome’s dominance. Unfortunately they determined that means going full Internet Explorer with their integration into the OS (which they get to play technicality over with antitrust concerns since their ‘apps’ are what default it rather than an underlying OS ‘default’ that this effectively deprecates).
Cheers.
Today, Google is definitely worse than MS for the web.
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Didn’t Microsoft lose a large anti trust court case about this shit for internet explorer? So we’re just going the same route again because fuck the law and fuck our customers?
In any case, I am forced to use teams and since I run Linux I use it in chrome as the teams executable is just non workable.
Besides that, who in their right mond used teams? It’s a bit of a rhetorical question, my org uses it (for the moment, still) and it is godawful.
Teams on browsers is a fucking joke. Want gasp two tabs open with chats? Oh nononononon, Can’t have that! We’ll helpfully display an all page hiding modal asking you “are you still here?” on one of these tabs (almost always, but in typical Microsoft fashion, not always always) and if you click “I’m back” we’ll helpfully reload that page. Since many pages don’t have their unique URL, as they should because that is how the internet works, the reload just kicks you out of what you were doing… Were you in an important meeting? Well now you’re not anymore with mo way to get back unless maybe your boss tries to add you back himself.
Camera randomly just disappears, when you go into a preplanned call sometimes half the people end up in different chats, ahw whatever. I have a long, LONG list of other bugs and not enough energy to write it all down again
People should NOT use teams and should NOT use any Microsoft software, it’s all shit. I use Linux for servers and its all fast and easy. i use Linux for desktop and I never have to deal with any of the Microsoft shit
They lost something similar. But the US is different now. We don’t hold companies accountable anymore. Look at the food industry, look at Facebook, Google, etc.
Curious but what if I remove Edge from the machine?
You’re going to want to remove other parts of Windows as well, such as Windows Explorer, the Win32 runtime, the kernel, etc.
(In other words, install Linux.)
Already do, this was a hypothetical.
Well you don’t have to remove the kernel: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-alt/message/ddc72018dac23e08b6a007e165e13587
“I can’t do X in blackboard”
“Are you using edge?”
“Yes”
“Install Firefox and use that, it will fix the problem”
Edge just doesn’t work well with some sites; those of us without admin powers are going to have a very rough time trying to work around this.
I would be so frustrated working for a company like Microsoft when forced to write software “features” like this.
The business of M$ just fucking sucks
But why is this the same people that brought us the windows terminal, azure, vscode and improvements to python? 🤦🏻♂️
As a wise man once said: Developers! Developers! Developers!
Microsoft will appeal to developers, because those are techy enough to realistically leave their platform and because developers supply the value to their platform. Normal users can be milked, though.
Litigation in 3… 2… 1…
The experience is the shittiest.
Should never have switched off slack
A browser so good they have to force their captive audience to use it.
It’s like the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft 22 years ago. They are still trying to push their browser.
