Microsoft hate thread - I just want to rant about Microsoft

[They were once men]

I've had good luck with these. I'd be wary of any not on Github, though.

suprised microsoft doesn't take these down since they own github but i'm not complaining

 

[Slav Power]

suprised microsoft doesn't take these down since they own github but i'm not complaining

It doesn't cut into their profit margins so they don't care.
1. You can still download a Windows ISO and use it for free without activation, you're only stuck with an annoying watermark and disabled personalization options
2. Microsoft's corporate structure has shifted immensely, now Azure is their #1 product so they don't have to be so wary of Windows piracy now
3. They still make money off of pirated copies via data harvesting. Same with point one. Windows is now a free service, and you are the product.

 

[AnOminous]

suprised microsoft doesn't take these down since they own github but i'm not complaining

If you ran a business and pirated every single copy of Windows you had, they'd come down on you like a ton of bricks, but they've generally been pretty hands-off about individual piracy since at least 2000 or so. Even before then they weren't extremely aggressive. For instance, you could just make up Windows 95 keys if you knew how they were formed.

I think they prefer tolerating some amount of piracy to old versions being out there getting recruited into botnets.

 

[Miller]

1. You can still download a Windows ISO and use it for free without activation, you're only stuck with an annoying watermark and disabled personalization options

I believe you can remove it via the registry.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

If you're using Microsoft's Office suite, stop using it and switch to LibreOffice instead ASAP. Microsoft's Office suite has vulnerable attack vectors that have been known about for years and they still refuse to fix it.

You can use Libreoffice in a business setting, but there's something retarded in the Java license of recent vintage ( effective 2023 I think) that might get you treated like a pirate if you use the free version. I guess you can use Libreoffice without Java to an extent, but I think if you do the "recommended" install it expects Java. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I swear I read complaints about this change. In any event, a word of caution before 30 workstations get changed.

FWIW, I basically spend 8 hours a day staring at Excel and to a lesser extent Word, and neither LibreOffice alternative is as robust as the Softie offerings. Sorry, but its true. Dumb shit like not being able to view the gridlines in a table when you've set it to not show borders in Writer. (This feature is in a stupid place in Word, turning on view nonprinting characters doesn't make it work, but it is there. ) Or search and replace nonprinting characters, e.g. make one ^p into two ^p^p via <ctrl><H>. Can't do this in Writer. I don't mean to slag either product, I use Libreoffice at home, but for some of the things I do at work Libreoffice would be a pain in the ass.

Now, once Softie sunsets the last version office you could install on a local network (Office 2019), how will I feel? Probably not too good, but we're not quite there yet.

Shit like Onedrive just screams opsec failure in the making. Thank god I deleted it from my computer the second I found out I had it.

How is it any worse than Google Drive? Or is that just as bad?

The biggest fuck you is the contextual item right click menu that displays a visually larger menu with a fraction of the options.

There's a way to restore the Windows 10 view. I did it to my work and home PCs after about a week of wanting to punch things.

Restore old Right-click Context menu in Windows 11

But I think a lot of companies don't give users access to the registry files that need to be modified. And the fact that you have to modify registry files to do this in the first place is ridiculous. Especially for somebody like me, who is nobody's definition of a techie. But I did it, and it works.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

If you ran a business and pirated every single copy of Windows you had, they'd come down on you like a ton of bricks, but they've generally been pretty hands-off about individual piracy since at least 2000 or so. Even before then they weren't extremely aggressive. For instance, you could just make up Windows 95 keys if you knew how they were formed.

I think they prefer tolerating some amount of piracy to old versions being out there getting recruited into botnets.

You ain’t lying. I use to do support for Windows Server boxes and amazing the amount of tickets i got from clients wanting proof of licenses. M$ will send their goons after you quicker than Nintendo.

 

[AnOminous]

You ain’t lying. I use to do support for Windows Server boxes and amazing the amount of tickets i got from clients wanting proof of licenses. M$ will send their goons after you quicker than Nintendo.

It's a pretty common thing for disgruntled employees to rat a company out for piracy. The "Business Software Alliance" is the organization M$ uses for this. It's a good way to pay back a company for giving your job to a jeet.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

It's a pretty common thing for disgruntled employees to rat a company out for piracy. The "Business Software Alliance" is the organization M$ uses for this. It's a good way to pay back a company for giving your job to a jeet.

Someone should turn in BLM and other leftist groups for running unlicensed Microsoft software.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

The Verge: Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ (archive)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DICGMCCRgY6/

 

[ParasiteSteve]

The Verge: Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ (archive)

Thank you, I hear your protest. Thank you, I hear your protest. Thank you. I hear your protest.

Ok, so let me tell you...

A masterclass in "we do not care"

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Why did Microsoft have to move away from Windows 7? It was the best operating system. Just why?

 

[Susanna]

Why did Microsoft have to move away from Windows 7? It was the best operating system. Just why?

Because obviously tablets were the future and the whole UI would need to be overhauled to accommodate the computers we all would exclusively be using.

 

[Overly Serious]

The Verge: Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ (archive)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DICGMCCRgY6/

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You know just the obnoxious way he tries to fish for Progressive points with "Thank you, I hear your protest" makes my skin crawl. 'We respect and value you and identify with your struggles', as she's pushed slowly towards the door.

I miss the old Microsoft that just wanted my money. They weren't trying to educate me or protect me from wrong think or convince me how they were saving the planet. They just wanted what was in my wallet. Hell, they'd even on occasion write good software to get at it, if they had to.

 

[TooManyKittens]

If you ran a business and pirated every single copy of Windows you had, they'd come down on you like a ton of bricks, but they've generally been pretty hands-off about individual piracy since at least 2000 or so. Even before then they weren't extremely aggressive. For instance, you could just make up Windows 95 keys if you knew how they were formed.

I think they prefer tolerating some amount of piracy to old versions being out there getting recruited into botnets.

Part of this is also cost benefit ratio. Going after the home users pirating a corporate version of windows is a small subset who individually probably don't have deep pockets to pay out. If you could prove it.

Ensuring compliance on corporate entities who have insurance or at the very least you can just take all their assets and do so as one big net win for microshit is way better use of time. That and if the corporation has any legit licenses they're subject to audits so catching them is easier too. Especially as everything moved to software as a service and subscriptions.

The old auto shop using win 11 with 2 computers .. not likely to be noticed. The enterprise with 2000 users? Nailed.

 

[Penis]

Why did Microsoft have to move away from Windows 7? It was the best operating system. Just why?

The real reason is they wanted an excuse to force spyware upon us to sell our data behind our back. Windows 7 was just the last Windows product designed to be an Operating System. Windows 8 and onward are basically web browser bootloaders disguised as OSs.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

The real reason is they wanted an excuse to force spyware upon us to sell our data behind our back. Windows 7 was just the last Windows product designed to be an Operating System. Windows 8 and onward are basically web browser bootloaders disguised as OSs.

I just miss it, man. XP was pure kino. Windows 7 was peak. Then they just... look how they massacred my boy.

 

[Slav Power]

The real reason is they wanted an excuse to force spyware upon us to sell our data behind our back. Windows 7 was just the last Windows product designed to be an Operating System. Windows 8 and onward are basically web browser bootloaders disguised as OSs.

No? Windows 8 and 8.1 were still under Ballmer's tenure and that's not when the whole spyware debacle began. 8 was the result of Microsoft betting everything on touchscreens being the future and fucking themselves over in the process. Remember that around this time Microsoft was trying to make Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone a thing, only to pimp out Nokia to the Chinese and kill off Windows Phone when it couldn't compete with Android.

In 2014, Ballmer was replaced by Satya Nadella, and in 2015, Windows 10 came out, and that was when everyone started pissing and moaning about forced updates and spyware, not 8. With 8 people pissed and moaned about Microsoft trying to turn desktop Windows into a tablet OS. It was Nadella's idea to make more money on data collection, which also meant that Windows 10 was meant to be the "last Windows OS". Just have it updated perpetually and keep everyone in the loop and make bank on big data. Except then the next big thing came around which is AI, and 10 was too stale to push the new shiny toys for investors to gawk at and throw money at Satya, so that's why Windows 11 got haphazardly cobbled together, just so that you have Copilot, Recall, all those AI features that do AI things to AI your AI and AI stuff and AI AI AI AI, added with zero care just so that investors would hear AI five billion times and throw money at MS.

 

[AnOminous]

Why did Microsoft have to move away from Windows 7? It was the best operating system. Just why?

The only actually good Windows OSes were NT 3.5.1 and XP. Windows 10 was semi-okay (after removing the worst of the spyware) before they shat it up with a bunch of nonsense and then abandoned it.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

The only actually good Windows OSes were NT 3.5.1 and XP. Windows 10 was semi-okay (after removing the worst of the spyware) before they shat it up with a bunch of nonsense and then abandoned it.

XP was my favorite, but I was pleased with 7. It felt like a good upgrade at the end of the day. 10 is just bleh. 11 reminds me of 8. I just want a non-bloaty, non-spywarey Windows OS, but they keep doing stupid shit.

 

[Penis]

>Windows hate thread
>Look inside
>Everyone gushing over old Windows releases