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by username3 1136 days ago
Is everyone misreading the article?

The new policy is to ignore your default browser from Outlook and Teams and open Edge. There is an option to turn off this policy to use your default browser.

> Microsoft 365 Enterprise IT admins will be able to alter the policy, but those on Microsoft 365 for business will have to manage this change on individual machines.

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> There is an option to turn off this policy to use your default browser.

First time playing this game? Here's how it works:

1) Change the default behavior, but have the old behavior be an option

2) ~Everybody switches to the new behavior

3) Telemetry says ~nobody uses the old behavior, so remove the option in order to "streamline the experience"

1b) Revert the setting every time there is a system update.
> There is an option to turn off this policy to use your default browser.

They should add a new option to ignore this one that is also turned on by default. Default overrides all the way down.

In Teams, there is also an option to switch off notifications and another one to use Windows notifications.

Guess which ones of the two don't do shit.

Here's a hint: I'm using Teams via browser to get rid of notifications.