I read it the same way. I thought maybe this whole google getting taken to court business for manipulating their way to top search engine scared Microsoft by nah..
It got installed edge on an android phone as well.
While Microsoft doesn't normally control anything on android, my workplace requires a Microsoft intune to be installed to run the company email or teams on your phone. This effectively creates a workprofile with it's own play store and a forced install of several applications such as edge
Yeah seems like a request for a work provided phone would fix it. A guy I used to work with bought a burner flip phone when something like this was required and got the company to provide a work phone. After a month or two he would just openly use his normal phone and no one batted an eye.
Demand they provide a work phone. Never put Microsoft's stuff for work on your personal devices!!!
I would never do that to my personal phone, I installed that in a old phone that I had laying around.
That works, too. Glad to see people not trusting work apps on their private daily devices.
You should demand a work phone but work apps are usually insolated from the rest of the system for both yours and your employers benefit.
It enables your job to track you off hours. Did you go to a protest on the weekend your company doesn't approve of? If you aren't careful, you might give it permissions to your photos. If it's some form of 2FA, it might desire access to your SMS. In earlier days, the Outlook app use to be able to wipe the phone, it is more sandboxed now. But can you see how allowing access to your private information is a bad idea? Just say no. If it's for work related apps, they owe you a device to run it on.
The amount of tracking the intrusiveness of it highly depends on the type of management they used.
MAM or work profiles are most often used for personal devices and it grants the employer the ability to only manage specific apps and or profile.
MDM enrollment is used for corporate owned devices and is more capable.
Here is some documentation for MS Intune, it will be slightly different for other providers but it will be roughly the same: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/android-deployment-scenarios-app-protection-work-profiles
If it's for work related apps, they owe you a device to run it on.
Absolutely.
I don’t like how any of these big tech companies try and force us to use their spyware vs letting people make an informed choice. I don’t agree with the technique, but the silver lining may be that we desperately need competition with browsers and the reality is that this is how US predatory capitalism works now. Companies take advantage of people because we have no proper regulation in the tech space. Maybe some people will switch to from Chrome to Edge (reskinned Chrome) Ranking for privacy on a 1-10 scale imho
Chrome 0 Edge 1 Firefox 5 Brave 6 LibreWolf 9
I'm afraid you might have misread the title... unless you're very optimistic
