Paywalled.

I've never seen anyone that actually likes the shitty ms device. they like it when they get it, then all the problems start to surface.. lol. they get replaced within a year with something that isn't garbage

Barf

lol

Garbage PR speak for “oh yeah that was bad and everyone else knows it so we have to actually do something”

This is precisely the kind of thing companies say after they have fired all their actual bread and butter talent and they are run by clueless execs trying to coast on the brand name of the company until people figure out it is a dead end.

Started getting nagged by SwiftKey to switch over. Going to finally migrate to a different keyboard.

Sorry Mr Nadella, already replaced my Wintel tower and laptop with Macs. The 66% price increase in Microsoft 365 made me look long and hard at iWork and put up with its differences. And I actually liked the Ribbon. iWork has a ribbon but it's on the right and it's still so weird to me, but for the low low cost of $nothing, I'll put up with it.

I'm still on Xbox, but after GamePass doubled in price, I dipped out. They've since reduced it somewhat, but it's still over what I'm willing to pay. I'm the kind of gamer who obsesses over one game until I've beaten it. At $15 it made sense. $20 was too high but not terrible. $30 was instant cancel. They were making a huge profit on me and my use case and they threw it away. Bonus: I never cared about Call of Duty. $23 is still too high. For how I use it, it should be like $18 tops. The "GamePass PC" plan appeals to me, the idea of only being able to play on one device, but you need Windows for that. If there was a console-only GamePass, that would be better for me. But I also started with Atari and NES. Xbox 360 games still look good to me. PS1 games still look good to me. So I'll pick up a classic game and play that. I don't even need the new Xbox games. Hell, Animal Crossing for 3DS has been getting most of my time, only now I play it on my MacBook because the 2" screen gives me a headache. I bought the game and the hardware, but since I can play it on my laptop and get the full experience, I'll just do that instead. That said, I still like my Xbox. Raising the prices doesn't mean I'll play fewer games, it just means I'll wait longer to play a game and buy it used or on sale.

They're leaving my money on the table and getting nothing or close to it. And they wonder why. In both cases, they got greedy. I was paying them rent and they decided it wasn't enough. Now I pay them nothing.

I bet their proposed solution is to just pay them

We are entering a period where collapse is inevitable, this way of thinking is too broken and too widespread in the ruling class.

Where I work, it's under staffed. The leading hypothesis is management is frothing at the mouth waiting to replace everyone with AI.

They're really pushing AI, even though this org doesn't have software fundamentals down. The tech lead on my team is nice enough, in a distant sort of way, but by his own admission has no knowledge of unit testing.

The enshittification continues...

Last I checked, it's also missing some basic functionality like turning two at -- into – or being able to edit shared mailbox contact lists.

Not a single client with any external plugins uses new Outlook, are they not aware of this? We can't use New Outlook with add-on support for apps that have existed for decades. You can't just abandon add-ons in Outlook, Microsoft.

Double down, call it Microslop PedOS

Prediction: he'll start a YT channel where he'll review games and hardware.

Without having to be burdened by corporate limits, and able to buy pretty much anything out there, it'll be a big hit.

Guy hasn’t been in charge of anything since satya came on the scene.

And they are replacing him with a suit from the AI division.

Drove him away, I expect.

Like everyone on Lemmy said Slopilot would totally do.

Article says no such thing. Merely that they are expanding their list of partners.

Microslop enshittification continue.

Stop using Microsoft product already.

"Odd anomaly" you say. Hm. It's Microsoft, so I'm immediately wondering if it's been Slopified.

Let's check the article.

Output from the terminal command cURL shows that devices inside Azure and other Microsoft networks have been routing some traffic to subdomains of sei.co.jp, a domain belonging to Sumitomo Electric.

Well that's a strange error. One that a human probably wouldn't be making by accident.

The new JSON response suggested that, as of Monday morning, Microsoft hadn’t fixed the endpoint routing traffic to the Sumitomo Electric servers. Instead, the JSON response no longer occurs. [...] “It looks like they may have outright removed the endpoint that validates the email, because I’m seeing ‘not found’ errors,” said Dan Tentler, founder of Phobos Group. As denoted by ENOTFOUND, the error “suggests that [Microsoft admins] just ripped out whatever this thing was.”

Oh, so also, nobody knows what the problem really is or how to fix it properly. Hmmmmmm.

It’s unclear how Sumitomo Electric’s domain would have found itself part of this mess. Microsoft last year said the Japanese company’s parent company, Sumitomo Corp., was deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot, but that still doesn’t explain why a subsidiary’s domain was added to Microsoft’s network configuration.

Ah. Yep, there it is. Always the thing you most expect, innit?

If this somehow isn't Copilot ripping open a massive, hemhorraghing security hole, then it's someone inside Microsoft doing this on purpose.

“The result is that anyone who tries to set up an Outlook account on an example.com domain might accidentally send test credentials to those sei.co.jp subdomains.”

I.e. Any inexperienced sysadmin trying to set up a new account may very well accidentally leak their credentials to a (previously) unknown third party via Microsoft's own setup tools.

Regardless which motivation led to this it is yet further proof that Microsoft cannot be trusted with anything.

Good for them that they won’t take tax breaks or pillage the local community electric coffers.. good, that’s lovely. As a sort of “absolute lowest bar to clear and it’s disgusting it even needs to be said much less that they expect praise for it” sort of thing.

What about the noise? What about the infrastructure upgrades and maintenance (roads, water infrastructure, etc.) and services (fire, police, EMS, etc.). What about water use? What about the massive eyesore these buildings literally always are? What about construction disruptions, and pollution/environmental damage? What’s being removed to make space for this waste of resources? Is the land desirable for the community itself? If it’s trash buildings, can the community repurpose the land itself into a marketplace or third space or something actually beneficial? If it’s raw nature, that’s a huge cost, development potential aside.

We don’t need ai, not even a tiny itty bitty little bit, so it’s all well and good that those two things won’t impact people, but what about the rest of it? The dozens and dozens of externalized costs they don’t mention. It’s not like these places are employing a thousand people or anything, so the tradeoff to the locals for all the other stuff this data center almost certainly won’t be paying a fair share for is not worth it at all.