NP. Good luck.

I just got an iPhone yesterday, so I checked the iPhone and my Pixel Pro and I don’t have that app on either OS.

Nope.

Maybe that’s a country or carrier specific thing? I don’t have that on my phone, not with T-Mobile nor Verizon.

I haven’t experienced this with a Pixel nor an iPhone. I buy straight from Google and Apple though, because I don’t want the bloatware that carriers install. Did you buy from the carrier? Is it a Samsung? They do all kinds of crappy things with their TouchUI.

Ha! Thanks for sharing that. I got a real laugh out of it. It starts off pretty tame and just gets worse and worse until it’s completely unusable. As a former blogger, I’m very familiar with some of the shit that money driven bloggers pulled. I always avoided anything other than non-intrusive ads and still made a living off of it, which really goes to show that usually the webmaster is just an asshole.

Saying that it’s better than FOSS programs isn’t saying much. Software built over 40 years by a trillion dollar company is better than free stuff built by volunteers in their free time? Well that’s not surprising. What is surprising is how awful Microsoft software is considering the resources they’ve thrown at it. It’s not good software. But, no company is going to invest the resources in a competing suite of programs because of the market dominance that Microsoft has. That very same dominance is why they’re fine with releasing things that are just good enough, rather than actually good.

But look at programs where Microsoft wasn’t thoroughly entrenched already. Software like Zoom or Slack is a billion times better than Teams. Teams is the worst piece of shit I’ve ever used. We switched to it a few months ago and it has negatively impacted everyone’s productivity and collaboration. Everyone that has to use it hates it. But C suites make the decisions about what we use, not the people who actually use it, so we’re stuck with this garbage for who knows how long.

Let’s not also forget that Zuckerfuck stole facebook. He was hired to finish a project, and lied to the clients telling them he was still working on it while he was deploying it to his own servers. The company was founded by a shitbag thief, who is completely devoid of normal human emotions and ethics. Those clients sued him and were awarded a few million dollars, which is pretty pathetic considering the value of the company. Anyway, of course they’re lying. They were founded on lying and stealing, and that has been their mantra ever since.

The answer is yes. I’m sure they also pour through all of it with their AI looking for things to add to their marketing profile of you.

Yes, that’s what I’m talking about.

Have you ever used Outlook, or Word, or Teams, or anything by Microsoft that isn’t Excel?

It’s fine now, but getting CUPS installed, configured, and getting proper drivers for your printer used to be incredibly difficult, especially if you were new to Linux and didn’t know how to do any of that stuff.

Because “fuck you” that’s why!

Of course they did. They’re going to make it as intrusive and annoying as possible so that people give up and sign in.

Every business is affected by the Microsoft monopoly. They’re locked into a platform with god awful office solutions, and they must pay more for their software because there is no competition. Now Microsoft has locked them into subscription based plans instead of one-time purchases, and is effectively holding the entire world hostage.

Most businesses will not migrate their desktops off Windows because they will not migrate their workforce off Office.

Which is so weird, because office is crapware. It’s terrible software. The only reason businesses use it is because other businesses use it. Nobody will switch, because everyone would have to switch. It’s a self-reinforcing tragedy.

They’ve unintentionally made windows a “monopoly”

What? Becoming a monopoly is the most intentional thing they’ve ever done, and the only thing they’ve ever done well.

It’s helpful to them, so they can spy on everything you do, and sell that information to anyone who will pay for it.

If you close it, it pops up 30s later.

This is by far the most annoying development in software and website design to ever occur. You can’t say no to stuff anymore. If you say no, they nag you again very very soon, and they will continue nagging you until you accidentally click yes. After you’ve clicked yes, they make it damned near impossible to change that selection. Dark patterns were outlawed years ago, yet somehow nagware is legal? Fuck the person who thought this up with a spiked baseball bat.

I call everyone dude, or man, especially when I’m excited. Idc what your gender is, you’re still my dude.