I envision hell as a place MS engineers have to go and support their
product to seniors...
When I want to be like Peter Pan and fly, my happy thought is Bill
Gates having to get a big tax deal signed for the IRS in the next few
minutes and he has to wait for his windows system to do updates...
On 6/29/24 10:03, Steve Jones 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
<mailto: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
<mailto: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/
<https://www.howtogeek.com/my-windows-computer-just-doesnt-feel-like-mine-anymore/>____
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*From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com
<mailto: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
<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Microsoft____
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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 $99/year. It's
the best value in online backup that I know.____
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Personally, I've been using ThunderChicken for email longer than
I can remember.____
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and Micro$oft has always been evil and incompetent. ____
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This brings an old joke to mind....____
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part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com____
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:58 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com
<mailto:khoh...@kwom.com>> wrote:____
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html
<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://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.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.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
<https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/well-done-microsoft-youve-made-me-hate-windows-11-with-your-pushy-ads>____
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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.____
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*From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com
<mailto: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
<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Microsoft____
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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?____
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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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