The issue with Micro$oft is that the company is old enough now that all the
original a**holes have retired, and now we have a whole new set of a**holes
who never learned anything from the original a**holes.
Apple is pretty much the same (minus a couple of years), plus they all just
*KNOW* their a**holes can't possibly stink.
My traveling laptop is now a chromebook that I have configured to run
lacros, which is basically Debian Linux (or maybe a slightly unique fork of
Debian if you prefer). On top of it I can run the box-stock linux version
of Chrome (and pretty much all other linux browsers). It is my favorite
because it runs "closer to the metal" than either Windows or MacOS.
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On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 10:13 AM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
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