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Please do correct me if I’m missing something, but this seems like a lot of uproar over not much... the article states that this only applies to enterprise, who

by jakear 7y ago

Please do correct me if I’m missing something, but this seems like a lot of uproar over not much... the article states that this only applies to enterprise, who would most certainly have IT admins, and those IT admins are able to block the extension through Group Policy. They’ve also been given one month prior notice about the change. This also only applies accounts which are owned and operated by IT, making it IT’s decision what happens on them, not the actual users. Disclaimer: I work at msft, nothing related and no knowledge of this besides the article. Opinions are my own.

farisjarrah 7y ago
I was an IT admin for a company of 100 people. If you mess with employee's browsers or browser layouts or search functionality, you are going to get a LOT of angry users. Furthermore, Microsoft is forcing companies who do not want this functionality to take evasive action to prevent this from happening. It's not the fact that this functionality is useful or the fact that this functionality isn't evil thats making people angry. Its the fact that they are forcing changes on people that people may not want or need. That is user hostile behavior.
jedieaston 7y ago
If you use your work Office 365 licenses on your personal machine (as is heavily encouraged in Education since you get 5 BYOD devices), this will automatically install when your machine is updated to 2002, and IT can't do anything about it since they don't manage your personal laptop.
Kneecaps07 7y ago
It's not just Enterprise. Plenty of small businesses use Office 365 as well. They don't all have on-site IT staff, and they often don't have competent IT consultants who keep an eye on this stuff.
JC5413789642675 7y ago
A bit underhanded, given the text from the bulletin. "Once this feature has rolled out, your end users can change their search engine preferences only via the toggle in the extension; they cannot modify the default search engine in browser preferences."

by jakear 7y ago

farisjarrah 7y ago

I was an IT admin for a company of 100 people. If you mess with employee's browsers or browser layouts or search functionality, you are going to get a LOT of angry users. Furthermore, Microsoft is forcing companies who do not want this functionality to take evasive action to prevent this from happening. It's not the fact that this functionality is useful or the fact that this functionality isn't evil thats making people angry. Its the fact that they are forcing changes on people that people may not want or need. That is user hostile behavior.

jedieaston 7y ago

If you use your work Office 365 licenses on your personal machine (as is heavily encouraged in Education since you get 5 BYOD devices), this will automatically install when your machine is updated to 2002, and IT can't do anything about it since they don't manage your personal laptop.

Kneecaps07 7y ago

It's not just Enterprise. Plenty of small businesses use Office 365 as well. They don't all have on-site IT staff, and they often don't have competent IT consultants who keep an eye on this stuff.

JC5413789642675 7y ago

A bit underhanded, given the text from the bulletin. "Once this feature has rolled out, your end users can change their search engine preferences only via the toggle in the extension; they cannot modify the default search engine in browser preferences."