Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.
Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.
I switched to thunderbird a little while back when they started adding advertisements that look like actual email into my paid for windows application. Nope.
I work for a break/fix shop supporting users in many different environments and I say I have never seen ads disguised as emails in Outlook. I see a lot of other very frustrating things from them but never that.
Here’s an example.
This is the web owa version, but it looks similar in the windows client as well. I don’t have an example from my own inbox because I uninstalled outlook, but this is the same thing.