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NorCalBusa

NorCalBusa

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Microsoft has been on a down-sizing binge for months. 60k people got buyout offers, others let go. Suddenly Outlook/OneNote, Teams etc. all take a globally giant shit. Coincidence?
 
They have been sucking at their upgrades for a couple of years now.... almost to the point of where I am feeling they are saying "You get what you get fool".

Had not thought about your point, but yeah... WTH.
 
Most programmers/IT professionals I've spoken with in confidence related that they had left backdoors...just in case their employers gave them reason to partake in constructive vandalism.

Is that what happened recently? We may never know. I would not bet against it.
 
Couple of weeks ago, MS bricked MS-Office on my wife's laptop,

It asked to update, so she did, and it then said "sorry, no longer supported, you can only go into read only now -- HOWEVER, we'll sell you a subscription..."

It was borderline ransomware.

I managed to get it rolled back, but what a freaking CF that was.
 
budman said:
They have been sucking at their upgrades for a couple of years now.... almost to the point of where I am feeling they are saying "You get what you get fool".

Had not thought about your point, but yeah... WTH.
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Indeed. I know several guys that bailed and went to Google's suite. They're all retired, so no heavy lifting- they all like GMail better. Wouldn't surprise me if Google doesn't quickly put up a, "Come on over" ad campaign soon.
 
I used Open Office on one of my computers for a while until Microsoft offered me a really cheap license for their product - not the latest, but it works. I was able to do what I needed with Open Office, although some things are a bit clumsy.
 
I switched to Mac a year and a half ago for personal use cause I got tired of the constant windows updates that could take hours.
Plus the snail pace of the intel chip
 
Blankpage said:
I switched to Mac a year and a half ago for personal use cause I got tired of the constant windows updates that could take hours.
Plus the snail pace of the intel chip
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Keynote...love it.
Pages...it's fine.
Numbers...terrible.

That being said, I still have MS Office on my MBP because of my work's MS365 license. Only thing I can't do is run Excel Macros but we don't use them.
 
I left MS mail apps years ago when the wanted to store your email on their servers, but you had to give them your password, which meant they could read every email and data mine them. I switched to Thunderbird and never looked back.
 
Open Office - LibreOffice - google docs and sheets.. Thunderbird for email.. I don't mess with any MS stuff if I can avoid it.

It's absolutely crazy that so many people and businesses have had such a long outage..
 
MC BumSlap said:
Keynote...love it.
Pages...it's fine.
Numbers...terrible.

That being said, I still have MS Office on my MBP because of my work's MS365 license. Only thing I can't do is run Excel Macros but we don't use them.
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I’ve tried using Numbers but thought it sucked. Maybe I didn’t give it a fair chance as some people do like it. Should make it a goal to get some use out of it since I’ve already paid for it.
 
I could never warm to Open/LibreOffice. Always found it slow and clunky.

I like the Apple apps, I have not had any problems with Numbers, but I'm not a heavy user.
 
Hosted email w/ MS. This is the second company outage in a few months. I added on site mailbox backup to our Barracuda device(s) for the exact concern: MS is a prime hack target.
 
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