Remember when Notepad was just… Notepad? A simple text editor nobody asked to be modernized?
Yeah, Microsoft didn’t care either. They bolted on Markdown support and AI features anyway. And now we’ve got CVE-2026-20841. Remote code execution. Via a text file. This is the kind of thing that makes you go “oh come on, really?”
the dumb shit that locks down the wallpaper is usually a group policy and those are basically on/off type options with very little configuration options
the Outlook profile thing with the phone number is usually because IT doesn’t get to control that and its in the HR section of your profile on the 365 portals, so the path of least resistance is just put it in your email signature and stop bothering us with your requests that take lots of manpower because microsoft has made this all so overtly complicated so that they can sell more stuff to your buisness that requires more input that nobody knows how to do because microsoft write shitty info documents that read like a jigsaw puzzle