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    9 days ago

    Bitch I can’t even find basic settings cuz they are so hidden in sub menus

    I’m no programmer or UX designer but I can imagine what a mess things are on the dev side

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      As an admin it gets so much worse. Twice a year your admin portal gets renamed, redesigned, merged with and/or split from another one, or removed, and all those changes are done halfway.
      Which means some settings are only on the old version and others only on the new. Then the old one is discontinued even though the new one doesn’t have all its functions, yet.
      So you completely rely on Powershell. But wait, there’s 2 incompatible versions of it now.

      I’m currently thinking about a career change, after reading in Microsoft’s official documentation that you need to install the new version of Powershell, import the beta version of several commandlets and then run a long script provided by them, only to keep every user on your org from creating their own Teams teams.
      And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It’s called “self service”, enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.

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        Jesus Christ.

        I’ve been doing linux admin and honestly I haven’t been looking back. My breaking point was Microsoft pushing a kb that rebooted domain controllers for no reason.

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          I still remember the update that sent domain controllers into a bootloop.
          That was fun!

          And the one that bluescreened all Windows servers.
          No, the other one!

          Oh, and the one that did an in-place-upgrade by itself, then locked your server cause it wasn’t licensed for the new OS version.

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      9 days ago

      Most open for frustration. Most open for ads. Most open for taking away control from the user.

      Trust me, in a few years windows will be a monthly subscription, still filled with ads and no control over your own pc. Windows 10 will turn to a yearly subscription already. 30 dollars per year per pc for security updates. Office is already subscription based. Companies smell money, want to turn everything to a subscription.

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    8 days ago

    I skipped briefly through the entire video and everything I’ve heard and seen was absolute bullshit bingo.

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    9 days ago

    whenever someone holds their hands like that when giving a talk, they’re trying to feed you a plate of shit

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      18 hours ago

      I disagree. Holding your hands like this is just a good way to not stand still.

      Using this kind of open stance, from my experience, makes presenting easier and makes me more confident.

      But yes, presenting peeps from BigEvilCo make it way worse.

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      Alt universe where MS went full fossy, the event focused on rolling release called “Open Windows”.

      Their version of the Recall is called “Skylight” and is an extension of their full local AI “Peephole”, for which a lot of companies pay specific licencing fees of the input data it is trained on (depending on their needs & quality of selection).

      Their search engine “Periscope” got some heat lately for giving users the option to display sponsored generic links.

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        18 hours ago

        It would be so interesting to see a company thrive, which actually keeps their initial motivations intact.

        Sad to see people fall for the greedy ways of pleasing investors and chasing trends…
        Would be very interesting to have an actual example of a nice megaco (if that is even possible)