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benjojo posted 18 May 2025 17:56 +0000

DZ: Ben being upset at the state of windows

DZ: Ben being upset at the state of windows

I boot windows 10 in a VM like once every week for basically just microsoft word (for contract review stuff / blog post edits) and excel (Excel still does better in some areas than gdocs)

but holy fuck, the situation just keeps getting worse. I rebooted this time to get:

A) A new splash screen full of crap I don't want like news tickers etc
B) A intro "Welcome to Microsoft 365 with Copilot" that would not go away

How on earth does the rest of the world deal with this, I'm not trying to get on the desktop linux user superiority complex or whatever, but it's such a user hostile environment that is just constantly trying to test my patience with the amount of crap it's going to throw directly into my face every time i'm just trying to use my goddamn computer to do something

Cant believe I even paid for this bloody license

We have to do something about the product managers

(do not reply with, "[Google|Open|Libre]Office can replace MS office", because I assure you it does not, especially in spreadsheets)

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benjojo replied 18 May 2025 18:05 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.art/users/holsta/statuses/114530129640855747

DZ: Ben being upset at the state of windows

DZ: Ben being upset at the state of windows

@holsta Problem is that I have files that customers send me (like contracts etc) that need modern office, so I am chained in this basement with the Windows product management team in a way I cannot really avoid, otherwise I would have left this long ago