I LOVE Microsoft These guys are the best One of my favorites is making the network adapter like 30 billion clicks deep and throwing in the new network adapter settings thing that screws up nerd configs. I love it I love that OneNote was absolutely perfect and they turned it into a shitbird webapp I love that they constantly depreciate fully functional features and if they replace them its cracked out versions of its former self, totally hawt.
I cant lie, i did love that when windows 10 got pushed on us, printers that hadnt worked in forever suddenly had support, their generic print driver was pretty amazing, but thankfully in true microsoft fashion, they made sure to obliterate that in w11. I think its like when Meta got caught trying to fuck with depressed people. Microsoft knows they are so embedded in the world that they want to keep us all slightly frustrated. I dont know if theres a conspircay associated with that or if theyre just dicks. I lean toward them just being dicks On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 10:46 PM Ryan Ray <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a few hundred employees embedded into the Office 365 infrastructure > and it's not that bad. I've been a Windows Administrator since the NT days, > migrated a school district from Novell Netware to AD when it was time. > > The intune management platforms are good for computers and devices as an > MDM service. It is a little slow processing new policies due to it being > "in the cloud". > > Sharepoint is a decent-ish document management / website portal for your > employees. It's nice to be able to do a lot of searches into your company > and figure out what's happening with your data. > > Outside of work I don't personally like some decisions they're making, > like shoehorning things like "recall" into your OS. I don't like them > fucking with my OS, and advertising. It takes a bunch of work to use intune > policies to remove a lot of the "Cruft" out of the OS, especially for > employees. > > I really like the Windows Susbsystem Linux. It's nice to be able to run a > Ubuntu box on my windows machine. > > It depends what you're looking to do. I also use MacOS quite heavily. You > should use all OS's and determine what you like about each one to keep your > life moving forward. > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 4:43 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > >> Oops, one more, how did I forget this one? It kind of sums up all the >> others. >> >> >> https://www.howtogeek.com/my-windows-computer-just-doesnt-feel-like-mine-anymore/ >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince >> *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2024 6:10 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Microsoft >> >> >> >> We do subscribe to MS 365. Partially for the office suite of programs >> (mostly Word and Excel for us), but the main attraction is that we get 6TB >> of online backup for a measly $99/year. It's the best value in online >> backup that I know. >> >> >> >> Personally, I've been using ThunderChicken for email longer than I can >> remember. >> >> >> >> and Micro$oft has always been evil and incompetent. >> >> >> >> This brings an old joke to mind.... >> >> >> -- >> >> bp >> >> part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:58 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: >> >> >> https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html >> >> >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/ >> >> https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-11-start-menu-ads-how-to-turn-them-off/ >> >> >> https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851902/microsoft-bing-popups-windows-11-malware >> >> >> https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/well-done-microsoft-youve-made-me-hate-windows-11-with-your-pushy-ads >> >> >> >> Email support has gotten difficult now that people tell me they have a >> new PC with Outlook but it isn’t Outlook, it’s “new Outlook for Windows” >> which is apparently the successor to the Windows Mail app which was the >> successor to Outlook Express. Outlook Express was actually a decent >> program, especially for free, but the successors are crap IMHO. In any >> case, “new Outlook” is nothing like actual Outlook. Which you have to buy >> as part of Microsoft Office 365. >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Nate Burke >> *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2024 4:42 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Microsoft >> >> >> >> My Windows XP box is still pretty stable. >> >> On 6/28/2024 4:13 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> >> Is Microsoft becoming evil, or incompetent, or both? >> >> >> >> I could cite a bunch of examples, but “the new Outlook for Windows” comes >> to mind. And Copilot, which seems like they brought Clippy back from the >> dead. I am resisting the urge to type a whole bunch more annoying things >> they are doing as of late. Even the techie media has been dumping on them. >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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