Microsoft marketing tactics are like a puppy taking a dump on the floor. Anything to get attention on their mediocre features that never quite live up to their promise or potential. I don't know why that is exactly, but I have grown weary of their half-baked BS in every Windows platform since 3.11.
We have a problem here that when we push a chrome install to the windows boxes, chrome takes over PDF. Then everyone that works with PDFs calls helpdesk because double clicking them is opening a read-only copy in Chrome instead of acrobat pro.
There ought to be protection placed on an extension once an app has claimed it, preventing other apps from just yoinking it without warning or confirmation.
But then yes we have to walk them through fixing the association and getting it back to acrobat, and it's not as
Does your organization not implement Active Directory and/or Group Policy Objects? I think this was a problem for my users until the third person told me it was an issue and I made a GPO to fix it. I get that most Slashdot users aren't actually Windows admins but seriously this is just a single policy change.
We have a problem here that when we push a chrome install to the windows boxes, chrome takes over PDF. Then everyone that works with PDFs calls helpdesk because double clicking them is opening a read-only copy in Chrome instead of acrobat pro.
There ought to be protection placed on an extension once an app has claimed it, preventing other apps from just yoinking it without warning or confirmation.
But then yes we have to walk them through fixing the association and getting it back to acrobat, and it's not as
Does your organization not implement Active Directory and/or Group Policy Objects? I think this was a problem for my users until the third person told me it was an issue and I made a GPO to fix it. I get that most Slashdot users aren't actually Windows admins but seriously this is just a single policy change.