Ask Paul: April 3 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and Happy April, too. Here’s a lengthy and diverse set of questions to kick off the weekend.

... And a passerby left this note on our mailbox.
Civility
Rather than address specific questions about this issue, I’d like to remind everyone that I aggressively police our site’s comments for personal attacks and delete them accordingly. Some seem to believe that I delete comments that disagree with me or my opinions. That’s not the case at all, and a cursory examination of the comments on the site proves that nicely. What I will not tolerate is a personal attack against me, other site authors, or readers, and I’m especially disheartened to learn that people have repeatedly set up accounts specifically to bully me and others here.

Please, feel free to disagree on whatever topic. But do so without insulting others, impugning their intelligence or sanity, or anything else that, frankly, should be obvious. The inanity of what people quibble over and the mean and personal ways in which they do so is unacceptable, always. But in these days especially, it’s inexcusable.

Thanks for understanding. --Paul
Edge notifications
SherlockHolmes asks:

it looks like I have some problems with the new Edge. As I understand it, Edge should be able to send toast notifications when its closed. I allowed outlook.com to do desktop notifications and also allowed Edge to keep running in the background. But I dont get E-Mail notifications when I get new Mails in my Inbox. Any ideas whats wrong? Thanks.

Based on a months-old Microsoft Tech Community forum post, this has been an issue with the new Edge, but I’m not sure if it is now. And neither of Microsoft’s roadmap updates for the new Edge (here and here) mention notifications. Obviously, this can and should work---both Chrome and legacy Edge support this---but I’m not sure if this is an ongoing issue. I haven’t configured any sites to provide system notifications (though some, like Google Calendar, will issue their own in the browser frame).

Does anyone see notification toasts and Action Center integration with the new Edge? I can ask Microsoft about this if not.
Teams for video conferencing
will asks:

With everyone working from home we have seen a surge in the usage of Teams, and while it is good here has been some vocal people on just how "easy" it is use and its features. Due to the currently limit of only having 4 people on the screen at one time in a video call we have also now purchased many Zoom licenses. People are now preferring to use Zoom over Teams due to ease of use and video based meetings. I know that Microsoft announced in 2019 they would be increasing the number of people on screen up to 9, but Zoom allows for a lot more than that. Even the status update for increase the video calls on screen was last updated in January with "we are still working on it".

Teams is a business tool, so I’m not sure a lot of people are comparing it with Z...

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