Luckily there's still the trick of not using Edge.
Who knows for how long.

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The only thing Edge is good for is downloading literally any other browser…

It also has a good use of being the toilet of browsers. As in, if you ever are required to temporarily install some pervasive plugin or extension to take a proctored exam or something, Edge is good to use because you know you won't use the that browser for anything you care about and you can protect good browsers from those garbage plugins.

That's what I have an entire laptop for. I call it the Dust Collector. It's sole purpose is to collect dust and maybe once or twice a year be ready for a proctored exam. It's not even allowed on my home network.

No, that was IE. Edge is decent enough browser for normies, equal to chrome.

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Because Dennis is a bastard man!

Better to use winget, though. That way you don't even need to bother with Edge's initial setup screens.

So somebody took a look at the modern web and thought "Hey, this is pretty good, but you know what would make it even better? Even more shit you didn't ask for popping up in your face with every click!"

"Customers hate AI" means "Cram more AI into everything" to Microsoft.

As Ftumch said, winget is really the way to go these days. No browser, just:

Terminal > winget install mozilla.firefox > Done.

You're not wrong. Edge is just Chromium with MS branding. It's not a bad browser like IE was.

Although if they do shit like this it will be.

The Grammarly plugin also started opening their AI chat panel in the side panel randomly once a day.
And they also have a ton of false positive highligting that's just plain ridiculous since they 'improved' their spelling checker with AI.
I uninstalled it.

Cool. Well, Billy pedogates, edge sucks, Outlook sucks, and copilot sucks. Don't use them. Always try to remove them. I know you love to try to shove it on me like your trying to dose the wife for you stds. But Microsoft will always be tainted by you.

Just let the AI have a teensy weensy peek at all of your emails, guys, it's just an itsy bitsy little peek, what's the big deal, why don't you trust us??

Better to use apt-get though. That way you don't even need to bother with the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.

I'll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won't move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.

I mean I've already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk so how much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?

I thought they wanted people to use their products?

this just pushes people away.

It's good for viewing PDFs

Who uses edge though

Edge browser now required a GPU with 12Gb VRAM minimum.

OF COURSE YOU CAN RENT GPU CLOUD COMPUTE!

People installing firefox or chrome.

Fair enough, let me rephrase that to "5 years ago, edge was decent enough". But so many big companies are ruining their product with AI these days. It s almost the status quo.

Using a macbook for the picture tho. Rude.

You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis

…I don’t know if any of the above is true but if it didn’t even stop you for a second to question it, isn’t it time to get off Windows?

I’m not even going to recommend an OS, just anything but Windows. Fucking Apple is more trustworthy.

Steve.

Steve fuckin’ gets it.

Edge is nice at work because it works with all the apps we have that still expect IE rendering quirks.

I wouldn’t bother with it if you are at home.

I only use Edge at work because of some screen refresh glitch with Chrome. Whenever I would do something in Outlook, the entire screen would blink for a second. Very annoying. I never put a ticket in because Edge worked fine. Now I will have to enter ticket hell.

This experience helps users quickly understand content

They really think we're stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

I'm pretty sure now you can do a powershell one liner for that

I feel like most people with a new Windows installation aren't going to know that one.

haha nuke the partition, put Linux on it

I've been learning intune and its terrible, its crazy that even Microsofts new software is garbage.

Intune is 15+ years old.

Well then I guess it being crap is justified, assuming they stopped developing after a year or two.

And if it's a gmail account you get to have two companies reading all of your mail!

None, if you ditch windows.

Not me though

Quick and easy guide for anyone wanting to disable CoPilot.

Better to build from source, that way you don't have to deal with the snap versions of the program

Windows users, I hope you guys know that you have our support in these trying times. I'm wearing a ribbon and everything.

Microsoft only beats you because they love you

Oh, you mean Microsoft 365 where UIs all clash, familiar buttons are moved every other month or put into a different admin center, and how disjointed the whole platform is when you want to administer the whole thing? You don't say..

Regular folks. Tbh I default my clients to it lol. Syncs their shit in PC upgrades which makes it easier for me. If they install something else, whatever.

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

Gentoo user: "Of course we build from source! (What are snaps?)"

Microsoft is currently pushing everyone to use office on the cloud, so they kinda are making office work on Linux (in a web browser).

Outlook running natively on windows is currently being phased out, Of course the cloud services version of outlook sucks eve more than the native version, and that's saying something. It looks like it's just hotmail to me. But that's what they're pushing everyone to. I wouldn't be surprised if the start phasing out other office products running natively in the coming years. Office already does everything it can to save files to one drive.

Cloud services are making them money, so much like how they're putting AI into everything, they also seem to want to put everything on the cloud because.... more cloud money! After all you can't just continue to use the older version of excel installed on your computer when excel exists in the cloud. You'll have to pay a subscription to continue using their software because it lives in the cloud.

Yeah your strategy would make sense if Microsoft were still the machiavellian schemers they used to be. But now they just seem to be chasing after money in the short term in whatever looks to be growing (cloud services and AI) with no real long term strategy at all. And they really really want people to pay a subscription to use their software. But in their greed they just might kill their Windows business.