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ImpendingCynic
2023-02-06 3:31:51 PM  
It's rather amusing how Windows made Bill Gates the world's richest person for two decades and now Microsoft's strategy is to abandon that "success" thing and fark it all up.
 
PluckYew [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 3:43:13 PM  
What do you expect from a video game company?
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 3:51:19 PM  
It's Satanic.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 3:58:53 PM  
Well, if that isn't dodgy, I don't know what is.

/install linux
 
madgonad [OhFark]
2023-02-06 4:42:44 PM  

ImpendingCynic: It's rather amusing how Windows made Bill Gates the world's richest person for two decades and now Microsoft's strategy is to abandon that "success" thing and fark it all up.


Microsoft's market cap is $1.9 trillion

Your definition of success must be unique.
 
LesserEvil [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 4:45:28 PM  
They need to fire the idiot doing this.

Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.

Stop it, Microsoft. The harder you push, the more we will push back.

There was a time when Microsoft used to promote engineers taking home/using their software with those yearly MSDN subscriptions that gave you a huge number of OS keys to "use", thus ensuring those engineers were truly invested in their ecosystem, and that they'd spread it to relatives and friends on new PC builds with all those "free" keys. Since Windows 8, it's clear the people making decisions were complete morons, promoted for their "future-thinking skills" rather than intelligence.
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-06 4:46:16 PM  

LesserEvil: They need to fire the idiot doing this.

Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.

Stop it, Microsoft. The harder you push, the more we will push back.

There was a time when Microsoft used to promote engineers taking home/using their software with those yearly MSDN subscriptions that gave you a huge number of OS keys to "use", thus ensuring those engineers were truly invested in their ecosystem, and that they'd spread it to relatives and friends on new PC builds with all those "free" keys. Since Windows 8, it's clear the people making decisions were complete morons, promoted for their "future-thinking skills" rather than intelligence.


Year of the Linux desktop.

Problem solved.
 
OldRod [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 4:56:30 PM  
I'm getting so tired of the endless updates that break shiat, especially in Microsoft Office - just leave shiat alone and stop moving things around FFS!
 
DeathByGeekSquad
2023-02-06 4:57:53 PM  
My obscure distro is so lightweight and perfect and does everything i want it to do and if it doesn't then I begrudgingly use my second laptop with bloatware Windows installed to perform normal tasks not supported by my distro that I'm in denial about.
 
LesserEvil [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 4:59:11 PM  

AmbassadorBooze: LesserEvil: They need to fire the idiot doing this.

Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.

Stop it, Microsoft. The harder you push, the more we will push back.

There was a time when Microsoft used to promote engineers taking home/using their software with those yearly MSDN subscriptions that gave you a huge number of OS keys to "use", thus ensuring those engineers were truly invested in their ecosystem, and that they'd spread it to relatives and friends on new PC builds with all those "free" keys. Since Windows 8, it's clear the people making decisions were complete morons, promoted for their "future-thinking skills" rather than intelligence.

Year of the Linux desktop.

Problem solved.


Yeah... most people run more devices on a Linux kernel than they can imagine. I have several servers and after updating one of my media "snatchers" (Headphones), I found it didn't want to run unless it had Python 3.7. OK... I try to use Linux's handy APT to install it, but no joy, my Mint 18 was too old to get that (WTF?) so I had to upgrade Mint (One of the Mint 18 repos was giving 404s even). After finally upgrading after chanting all the magic voodoo into my terminal, then installing Python 3.7 (and 3.8 for good measure), headphones still didn't run (Still complaining about version, though python3 --version reported 3.8), because I had to tell the startup script where to fetch the right version of python specifically... but that wasn't enough, as there were cached bytecode files (.pyc) that needed to be deleted. Sigh.... Grandma isn't ready for Linux anything if they have to fire up PuTTY and study a 2000pg manual in order to upgrade some of their apps.
 
mcreadyblue
2023-02-06 5:01:23 PM  

LesserEvil: AmbassadorBooze: LesserEvil: They need to fire the idiot doing this.

Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.

Stop it, Microsoft. The harder you push, the more we will push back.

There was a time when Microsoft used to promote engineers taking home/using their software with those yearly MSDN subscriptions that gave you a huge number of OS keys to "use", thus ensuring those engineers were truly invested in their ecosystem, and that they'd spread it to relatives and friends on new PC builds with all those "free" keys. Since Windows 8, it's clear the people making decisions were complete morons, promoted for their "future-thinking skills" rather than intelligence.

Year of the Linux desktop.

Problem solved.

Yeah... most people run more devices on a Linux kernel than they can imagine. I have several servers and after updating one of my media "snatchers" (Headphones), I found it didn't want to run unless it had Python 3.7. OK... I try to use Linux's handy APT to install it, but no joy, my Mint 18 was too old to get that (WTF?) so I had to upgrade Mint (One of the Mint 18 repos was giving 404s even). After finally upgrading after chanting all the magic voodoo into my terminal, then installing Python 3.7 (and 3.8 for good measure), headphones still didn't run (Still complaining about version, though python3 --version reported 3.8), because I had to tell the startup script where to fetch the right version of python specifically... but that wasn't enough, as there were cached bytecode files (.pyc) that needed to be deleted. Sigh.... Grandma isn't ready for Linux anything if they have to fire up PuTTY and study a 2000pg manual in order to upgrade some of their apps.


At least it's free amirite?
 
LurkerSupreme [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 5:02:17 PM  

LesserEvil: Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.


I'm of the opinion that these super aggressive "You really, REALLY want to use this software we think is really cool, buy/switch to it now or we'll pester you until you feel like you have no choice" campaigns are conceived whenever their sales/marketing team gets their hands on a massive influx of fresh cocaine.

Anytime they start trying to force you to use Edge, or sign up for Office 365, or upgrade to Windows 11 right away lest they come to your house and rape your dog: oh yeah, that's at least 2 kilos of pure uncut Columbian baby.
 
morg
2023-02-06 5:05:07 PM  
All major updates on my win11 laptop try to force me to login with a registered account. It's quite annoying but fortunately it goes away after a restart.
 
Seequinn
2023-02-06 5:07:35 PM  
Don't want to upgrade to windows 11?

https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm

I had to remember to turn it off recently, when I finally chose to upgrade a Dell laptop to 11.

Never had the problem with it trying to "trick" me into upgrading.  But my group has been discussing the choice to upgrade for some time and looking at alternatives for older systems.
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-06 5:15:36 PM  

LesserEvil: AmbassadorBooze: LesserEvil: They need to fire the idiot doing this.

Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.

Stop it, Microsoft. The harder you push, the more we will push back.

There was a time when Microsoft used to promote engineers taking home/using their software with those yearly MSDN subscriptions that gave you a huge number of OS keys to "use", thus ensuring those engineers were truly invested in their ecosystem, and that they'd spread it to relatives and friends on new PC builds with all those "free" keys. Since Windows 8, it's clear the people making decisions were complete morons, promoted for their "future-thinking skills" rather than intelligence.

Year of the Linux desktop.

Problem solved.

Yeah... most people run more devices on a Linux kernel than they can imagine. I have several servers and after updating one of my media "snatchers" (Headphones), I found it didn't want to run unless it had Python 3.7. OK... I try to use Linux's handy APT to install it, but no joy, my Mint 18 was too old to get that (WTF?) so I had to upgrade Mint (One of the Mint 18 repos was giving 404s even). After finally upgrading after chanting all the magic voodoo into my terminal, then installing Python 3.7 (and 3.8 for good measure), headphones still didn't run (Still complaining about version, though python3 --version reported 3.8), because I had to tell the startup script where to fetch the right version of python specifically... but that wasn't enough, as there were cached bytecode files (.pyc) that needed to be deleted. Sigh.... Grandma isn't ready for Linux anything if they have to fire up PuTTY and study a 2000pg manual in order to upgrade some of their apps.


Windows XP and vista and 7 don't get updates either.

And at least mint didn't have alternating upgrade buttons.  You chose to upgrade.  It wasn't tricking you.

Want to stay on an old OS, windows or Mac or Linux?  You can't expect any of them to keep working with new hardware.
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 5:19:56 PM  

ImpendingCynic: It's rather amusing how Windows made Bill Gates the world's richest person for two decades and now Microsoft's strategy is to abandon that "success" thing and fark it all up.


You say like as if thay haven't always had a reputation for putting out buggy piles of crap.
 
Twilight Farkle [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 5:21:56 PM  
i.imgur.comView Full Size


You downgraded your Windows 7 installation (or were fooled into doing so) to run an operating system that forces updates and you know that those updates include ads.

i.imgur.comView Full Size


It didn't have to be this way, but this future is the grave you chose.
 
OptionC [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 5:26:43 PM  

LurkerSupreme: LesserEvil: Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.

I'm of the opinion that these super aggressive "You really, REALLY want to use this software we think is really cool, buy/switch to it now or we'll pester you until you feel like you have no choice" campaigns are conceived whenever their sales/marketing team gets their hands on a massive influx of fresh cocaine.

Anytime they start trying to force you to use Edge, or sign up for Office 365, or upgrade to Windows 11 right away lest they come to your house and rape your dog: oh yeah, that's at least 2 kilos of pure uncut Columbian baby.


They are almost certainly trying to reduce their maintenance surface.  When you have approximately 17 kajillion users, reducing the number of permutations of software that your end users are running in meaningful quantities is important to help focus development resources rather than keeping them spread all over the damn place.
 
wingnut396
2023-02-06 5:35:58 PM  
They don't care what OS you use to access your data in their cloud.
 
dougermouse
2023-02-06 5:40:42 PM  
Shutup revenue unit and provide to the machine.  We've got layoffs to plan, we're not making enough money!! How much is enough?

High tech is seeing slowdown of sales because they all moved to subscription models, have a "do what we want you to do, not what you want to do" mentality, and a sense of winning by just showing up.  Customer orientation is dead, employee satisfaction is dead, yet the C level suits keep humping that chicken.  Really feels like the whole digital economy is about to collapse because of wanting too much blood for Wall Street.

/How much? All of it
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 5:50:36 PM  
Planned obsolescence is always the thing with this stuff.  Apple has it down to a science.
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 6:00:36 PM  

OldRod: I'm getting so tired of the endless updates that break shiat, especially in Microsoft Office - just leave shiat alone and stop moving things around FFS!


I have Office 2007 on my W10 PC. Works fine for me.
 
Ishkur [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:02:04 PM  
Solution: Turn off automatic updates.
 
logieal [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:24:22 PM  
Again, once they started using the updates as forms of pushing ads for their own products, I said I was done. I haven't installed an update on my Win7 system since 2015 when they started pushing patches disguised as ads for upgrading to 10.

Fark Micro$oft with a rusty fork.

/It's no longer an operating system
//It's a vector to extract more money from you
\|/ by force if necessary
 
poconojoe [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 6:33:13 PM  

Seequinn: Don't want to upgrade to windows 11?

https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm

I had to remember to turn it off recently, when I finally chose to upgrade a Dell laptop to 11.

Never had the problem with it trying to "trick" me into upgrading.  But my group has been discussing the choice to upgrade for some time and looking at alternatives for older systems.


it's a three line script to prevent a system from installing Windows 11. it seems like half my job is preventing Microsoft from making any "upgrades" and the other half is trying to get the updates I want to actually update.

/also today I learned Zoom started enforcing minimum versions on their software and just how many of my clients that never wanted to update their applications suddenly had to update. it was shiatastic...
 
OptionC [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 6:34:47 PM  

logieal: I haven't installed an update on my Win7 system since 2015


Yikes.  I hope you don't connect that thing to the internet.

*shudder*
 
logieal [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:40:10 PM  

OptionC: logieal: I haven't installed an update on my Win7 system since 2015

Yikes.  I hope you don't connect that thing to the internet.

*shudder*


Well, not directly. I have a good firewall and other mitigations. But yes, it's what' I'm on right now.

Don't go to bad parts of internet, won't get bad things.
 
Myk-House of El [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:53:00 PM  

logieal: Don't go to bad parts of internet, won't get bad things.


Fark user imageView Full Size
 
Unscratchable_Itch
2023-02-06 7:03:53 PM  
I blame Agile.

/ I always blame Agile.
 
HighlanderRPI
2023-02-06 7:08:37 PM  
Looks like Someone forgot to turn off access to TFS for at least one of the 10,000 they laid off
 
Stephen_Falken [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 7:19:00 PM  
We are now 30 seconds before the Year of the Linux Desktop™. You Windows 10 and later users were warned ever since 2015 that this would happen - it's been in the EULA for years now. You have no one to blame but yourself for not paying attention. Windows 8.1 mainstream support ended on January 10. You think this is coincidence? Not on your life. Paging Farker Linux_Yes to the thread.

Fark user imageView Full Size
 
Twilight Farkle [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 7:23:19 PM  

Unscratchable_Itch: I blame Agile.

/ I always blame Agile.


Evil Agile Man
Youtube NZyi__N4zBo

Evil Agile man
Evil Agile man
He teaches how to standup
And how to blame the team
 
dyhchong
2023-02-06 7:39:06 PM  
I got a new phone yesterday, after a full day playing with it, updating it, installing apps, uninstalling apps I discovered the best thing about it.

Not once has it pestered me to input personal details or sign up to a brand account except where I specifically opened a not basic functionality brand app.

It has just...worked...without any annoyances. There were brand apps I wasn't allowed to uninstall, but when I hit disable they just went [*poof*] and disappeared except from my app list.

I'm actually considering signing up to a brand account because of how annoying they HAVEN'T been.

/it's a Motorola Edge X30, cost me $400USD shipped
//same spec as the Samsung Galaxy S22+ but with a slightly inferior camera array
 
dyhchong
2023-02-06 7:40:00 PM  
My old Samsung S10e STILL asks me to input my phone number for a Galaxy account EVERY TIME it's rebooted, it's farking frustrating.
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 7:44:57 PM  

OptionC: logieal: I haven't installed an update on my Win7 system since 2015

Yikes.  I hope you don't connect that thing to the internet.

*shudder*


imgs.xkcd.comView Full Size
 
NateAsbestos [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 7:52:30 PM  

logieal: Don't go to bad parts of internet, won't get bad things.


Sure, the internet is known to sit back and be chill.

Please tell me you at LEAST update your firewall...?
 
iamskibibitz
2023-02-06 7:55:23 PM  
After clicking "No, thanks," the user gets sent to a "Confirm your payment option"

That's kind of brilliant in an evil kind of way.
 
logieal [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 7:55:33 PM  

NateAsbestos: logieal: Don't go to bad parts of internet, won't get bad things.

Sure, the internet is known to sit back and be chill.

Please tell me you at LEAST update your firewall...?


Yes, absolutely. Just patched this past weekend. PfSense running on a Celeron J mini pc thing. It's pretty sweet.

I've got custom lists updated from ARIN as to the address blocks for basically everywhere unfriendly overseas. And some places domestically. I drop probably 1/3 of the total IP addresses in existence.
 
jso2897
2023-02-06 8:31:43 PM  

Twilight Farkle: [i.imgur.com image 448x448]

You downgraded your Windows 7 installation (or were fooled into doing so) to run an operating system that forces updates and you know that those updates include ads.

[i.imgur.com image 713x561]

It didn't have to be this way, but this future is the grave you chose.


Welcome to you're "Doom".
 
Sim Tree [OhFark]
2023-02-06 8:34:48 PM  

dyhchong: I got a new phone yesterday, after a full day playing with it, updating it, installing apps, uninstalling apps I discovered the best thing about it.

Not once has it pestered me to input personal details or sign up to a brand account except where I specifically opened a not basic functionality brand app.

It has just...worked...without any annoyances. There were brand apps I wasn't allowed to uninstall, but when I hit disable they just went [*poof*] and disappeared except from my app list.

I'm actually considering signing up to a brand account because of how annoying they HAVEN'T been.

/it's a Motorola Edge X30, cost me $400USD shipped
//same spec as the Samsung Galaxy S22+ but with a slightly inferior camera array


Motorola used to be owned by Google so they tend to have a more stock system. Samsung amazon, etc. edit the stock android operating system to install extra bloatware and spyware.
 
2fardownthread [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-06 8:47:57 PM  

Carter Pewterschmidt: OldRod: I'm getting so tired of the endless updates that break shiat, especially in Microsoft Office - just leave shiat alone and stop moving things around FFS!

I have Office 2007 on my W10 PC. Works fine for me.


I could rant for days on this. I do not know what happened, but it is as though idiots took over all of the Office applications and decided to make them work the way idiots want them to work. Since the 1990s they have become hopelessly bloated with useless features that people laugh at... PowerPoint and Clippy and ridiculous templates. I guess I do know what happened... idiots are a huge and growing market!

But they would get people trained and comfortable with an interface. Then they changed the interface. They have done this five times. This is not racist, but I think they hired a bunch of Indian employees? Or young people from wherever who had nothing to lose by just changing whatever they wanted. I can't think of another explanation, except perhaps "Ballmer." The user base was ignored so that some people who barely used the technology could do experiments on the user base. Why is that progress?

If it were better, then it would perform, what, 10 times faster than it did in 1995. But it is slower, bloated, kludgy, buggy... and it takes up a huge space on the hard drive. Even the files it creates are huge.

It is idiotic. This is how Microsoft makes money. I have no doubt. But when someone comes along and talks about how Amazon and Tesla are going to make the world better, I have a hard time thinking about when Sili Valley ever really accomplished that in the long run. And that goes for 2000 dollar telephones too.

MS Word, and Wordstar, and Word Perfect used to fit on a freaking floppy disk and used to run as fast as you could type. They produced files that would fit on.. a floppy. Then AmiPro. 35 years later, it is all a kludgy mess sucking up 100 to 1000 times the resources to do the same work.

Microsoft should be ashamed of what it has accomplished in their march to mediocrity. I use MS products because I "have to." I endure them. I increasingly use alternatives. MS has ways of bullying and forcing people to keep using its products, but for a lot of things, I use a text editor from the 1990s, written by ONE GUY. Why is that, Microsoft?

By the way, the number one best feature of MS Word is the one that they are going to cut next. They have kept it since the 1990s, and once it is gone, I am jumping ship.

Things were different before 9/11, but young people will never believe it. Word processing has been getting worse, but young people will never believe it. The "new interface" is here! Get with the program, Granpa!
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 8:54:22 PM  

2fardownthread: Carter Pewterschmidt: OldRod: I'm getting so tired of the endless updates that break shiat, especially in Microsoft Office - just leave shiat alone and stop moving things around FFS!

I have Office 2007 on my W10 PC. Works fine for me.


I could rant for days on this. I do not know what happened, but it is as though idiots took over all of the Office applications and decided to make them work the way idiots want them to work. Since the 1990s they have become hopelessly bloated with useless features that people laugh at... PowerPoint and Clippy and ridiculous templates. I guess I do know what happened... idiots are a huge and growing market!

But they would get people trained and comfortable with an interface. Then they changed the interface. They have done this five times. This is not racist, but I think they hired a bunch of Indian employees?


Fark user imageView Full Size


The problem is that once certain types of software reach certain levels of functionality, they're perfectly adapted to their tasks. There's no reason to use anything past Office 2007, because it does everything you need in that kind of software suite. So, they fiddle with the interface, which only annoys people who are familiar with the software. They can fritz with the file formats to make different versions incompatible, to force you to upgrade. Or just try and get you onto a subscription for something that works fine as standalone software.
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 8:54:46 PM  

dyhchong: I got a new phone yesterday, after a full day playing with it, updating it, installing apps, uninstalling apps I discovered the best thing about it.

Not once has it pestered me to input personal details or sign up to a brand account except where I specifically opened a not basic functionality brand app.

It has just...worked...without any annoyances. There were brand apps I wasn't allowed to uninstall, but when I hit disable they just went [*poof*] and disappeared except from my app list.

I'm actually considering signing up to a brand account because of how annoying they HAVEN'T been.


Windows really wants you to create an account because lots of the services require cloud storage. Windows has a ransomware protection tool built in for example, but it needs cloud storage to recover your data if a ransomware attack gets past it. You can sent URLs between devices, something I use a lot. You can get your phone linked to your PC so all your phone photos are automatically available on your PC desktop, SMS messages appear on your PC etc. It can update saved passwords and logins between all your devices etc etc.
All these features need an account to link your devices.

I have all these.

But Microsoft doesn't know my name. The account name I use is a fictional character (not Carter, it's a MST3000 Name Of David Ryder name.)
MST3K - Space Mutiny - The many names of David Ryder
Youtube RFHlJ2voJHY


If you have a smartphone then your phone company knows your name, address, bank details etc, and it tracks your location 24/7 and knows every phone call you have made and received. You gave more personal details to get your phone than I did to get Windows 10.
 
joelybarger
2023-02-06 8:55:09 PM  
And here I am still using Office 2007...

/no problems
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 8:57:10 PM  

2fardownthread: By the way, the number one best feature of MS Word is the one that they are going to cut next. They have kept it since the 1990s, and once it is gone, I am jumping ship.


What's that?
 
dyhchong
2023-02-06 9:02:20 PM  

Carter Pewterschmidt: 2fardownthread: By the way, the number one best feature of MS Word is the one that they are going to cut next. They have kept it since the 1990s, and once it is gone, I am jumping ship.

What's that?


Text Editing, part of their new partnership with ChatGPT means you no longer can type into the main document in Word, you just give it some concepts and it writes your thing for you.

/I'm guessing he means macros.
 
NeuroticRocker
2023-02-06 10:01:40 PM  

LesserEvil: They need to fire the idiot doing this.

Got a major update for Windows 10? Deal with several screens of "Upgrade to Windows 11" screen with alternating buttons to dismiss... the worst of it is that we KNOW they switched up the buttons just to TRICK users. WTF? It is literally done ON PURPOSE to TRICK THE USER.

Stop it, Microsoft. The harder you push, the more we will push back.

There was a time when Microsoft used to promote engineers taking home/using their software with those yearly MSDN subscriptions that gave you a huge number of OS keys to "use", thus ensuring those engineers were truly invested in their ecosystem, and that they'd spread it to relatives and friends on new PC builds with all those "free" keys. Since Windows 8, it's clear the people making decisions were complete morons, promoted for their "future-thinking skills" rather than intelligence.


Look up "Dark Patterns"

in short, it's abusive, misleading, and deliberately destructive UI meant to make users perform actions that are opposite to their intent.
 
Bruscar
2023-02-06 10:29:56 PM  
I really can't believe that there is an honest soul within the MS organization. There's no way a company, that performs with such consistent incompetence, could reap such large profits if all its' actions were honest and above board.
 
chitownmike
2023-02-06 11:23:32 PM  

Carter Pewterschmidt: 2fardownthread: By the way, the number one best feature of MS Word is the one that they are going to cut next. They have kept it since the 1990s, and once it is gone, I am jumping ship.

What's that?


He's bluffing, word has always sucked
 
Goimir
2023-02-06 11:25:10 PM  
MS has been producing junk since MS DOS 6.0

/still run windows on my laptop because I'm too damn lazy.
//it updated to windows 10 by itself one day.
 
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