Technology

Fuckin hell, all I wanted was to keep my Skydrive. That's fuckin it. Nothing more.
sigh I'm gonna have to switch to some self hosted bullshit ain't I? It's gonna be back to ye old "let's save today's photos from my phone onto my machine" bullshit?

Silly consumers. Microsoft will tell you what you want, when you want it, and through sheer force of an 800 pound marketplace gorilla, they’ll continue to shlurp in 20-30 Billion dollars in pure uncut profit every three months.

Geez it’s like you guys haven’t been getting screwed by this convicted monopoly for forty straight years with absolutely no end in sight.

So far on my work computer I've had a policy to indiscriminately uninstall anything that says copilot. If I hadn't seen this post I may have nuked it, then spent the afternoon trying to figure out where excel went.

Slop.

The Chief Sloperator striktes again

My kid destroyed my newish laptop and I could only pluck the memory off it to salvage something. So I am back to surfing and doing office projects on my old Alienware Aurora R4 from 2011 running Windows 7. No more gaming for me but also, no need for office products for now and the foreseeable future. Today it would cost me almost double to replace the laptop he destroyed with how much my memory and graphics card would cost. I am so happy that when my Office 360 is up in March I can tell them to fuck off. I am not now nor will ever be a fan of having to pay you over $100 a year so I can open a Word Doc or an old Excel spreadsheet. I am using the web-mail version of my email so I no longer need your Outlook, either.

And..... since I have been hanging out on Lemmy I have seen way too many posts about Linux and gaming to ever think I will buy a windows product again. I miss not playing my Flight Sim and games like Madden but I will never upgrade this OS on this old beast.

Like others I am looking forward to the day when I can build my new computer and install Linux on it and enjoy gaming again.

What does this even mean 😂 Capitalism breakdancing over the dead body of language at this point.

Barf

And not the good version from Spaceballs.

It all kind of makes sense if you look at it from an investors' perspective, which is the only one that really matters to CEOs. You can do whatever you want, but unless a company is an AI company, you can't reach a stratospheric PE ratio and your stock stays "low." You convince investors that you are an AI-first company, and your stock can break free of its shackles and reach its full potential!

All for the relatively cheap price of slapping two letters on everything, AI.

Well at least they're being honest about the future of Microsoft.

Honestly the hardest part of “productivity” is keeping up with the product names. 😅 I just hope the rename doesn’t break links/docs and that licensing/features stay crystal clear for users.