<story><title>Outlook now ignores Windows&apos; Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default</title><url>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-emails-open-next-to-web-links-in-microsoft-edge-b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Microsoft is always striving to improve and streamline our product experiences—offering a new way to use the classic Microsoft Outlook app on Windows and the Microsoft Edge web browser.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;to help you stay engaged in conversations as you browse the web.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the people who write this sort of BS-filled prose really believe in what they&amp;#x27;re writing. To be completely honest, the style almost sounds like LLM output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike31fr</author><text>No, they don&amp;#x27;t believe in it, I know from experience. They know it&amp;#x27;s BS. They know it&amp;#x27;s bad. But it&amp;#x27;s not appropriate to say out loud things like &amp;quot;We made this change because we want more money and don&amp;#x27;t really care about freedom or privacy, so that&amp;#x27;s how it&amp;#x27;s going to be whether you like it or not&amp;quot;, so they are trying to find nice sentences. But they know, trust me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Outlook now ignores Windows&apos; Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default</title><url>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-emails-open-next-to-web-links-in-microsoft-edge-b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Microsoft is always striving to improve and streamline our product experiences—offering a new way to use the classic Microsoft Outlook app on Windows and the Microsoft Edge web browser.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;to help you stay engaged in conversations as you browse the web.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the people who write this sort of BS-filled prose really believe in what they&amp;#x27;re writing. To be completely honest, the style almost sounds like LLM output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reliablereason</author><text>It is likely written by some copywriter. That person believes in nothing, they are simply performing a task that has been assigned to them.</text></comment>