• shibco@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    It is truly shocking how shit Microsoft is under Nadella. It’s like 100× worse than Gates or Balmer. Wild.

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      5 hours ago

      What’s really wild is that people put up with this shit.
      For me the straw that broke the camel’s back was finding out that system32 is owned by the installer user and I’d have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
      And here people are like: “Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought.” While the apologists go: “You can disable those in the registry.”
      I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO!

      The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Microsoft was always bad. But now that they’ve saturated the market, they need shadier and shittier gimmicks to keep justifying their inflated stock price.

      Now they’re trying to sell businesses on AI as a full replacement for worker headcount. It’s a bald faced lie. But with enough money spent on marketing and gimmicks like this…

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      Balmer and Gates worked their way up, especially Gates from basically nothing. They understood mostly what their customers wanted. But Nadella only understands short term revenue. Not the longtime customers.

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        2 hours ago

        Gates’s Mom was an IBM executive. He got handed a multi million dollar contract before he was out of undergrad. That’s not “from nothing”. The man was practically coronated

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    6 hours ago

    So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?

    I may finally pull the plug on my full conversation to Linux this or next year. I already dual-boot and have been a single inconvenience away from kicking Windows Spyware Edition to the curb, anyways.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?

      That’s sort of the joke of it all. Microsoft needs to tell their investors “We sold AI to 100 million new users!” to justify these bloated investments in OpenAI.

      So instead of selling it as DLC, they just shave off a chunk of the 365 subscriptions and say “that was people paying for AI”.

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    11 hours ago

    Krunklom announces he’s going to keep using Linux and to kiss his fucking asshole, gently, and delicately, after Krunklom has taken a shit, Microsoft.

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        11 hours ago

        Linc for Business? Skype for Business? OneDrive? SharePoint?

        Literally no one on earth, from the admins to the users, likes fucking anything Microsoft does anymore.

        Can we please please please tell them to fuck all the way off?

        Just because it wasn’t planned doesn’t mean they can’t be obsolete.

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          At my job we really miss Skype, sure it was a bloated system on the end. But we could send files to customers during video conferences. They could send back their edits and so on.

          With Teams I can barely send an emoji to my customers. Not to mention the bug with the “the other person might use Skype for business”. No, they are using Teams, both my customer and I have to force close Teams and restart for it to recognize us both using latest Teams version.

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    12 hours ago

    My birthday is next week and for it, I’ll be moving to openSUSE on my gaming rig and server. I’m both nervous and excited! If only I could get them to let me do that at work!

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    11 hours ago

    Jesus Fucking Christ. Why would anyone who wants to write a simple letter or some other basic stuff in Word (which is what most of home users do) want any of this crap?