• Lippy@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    That’s fine, I’ve closed the door on supporting Microsoft. They could have just charged for the ‘upgrade’ and that would have been better since it wouldn’t result in the colossal amount of e-waste that this is creating. Even without the forced obsolescence, their products have become hostile, invasive and generally just a PITA to use. Meanwhile Linux distros are knocking it out of the park lately.

    I really don’t know what Microsoft are thinking. They haven’t made particularly good strides towards gaining any kind of goodwill, so once it becomes common knowledge that alternatives not only exist but actually show them up, those lost customers are people that they will never get back. Look how pathetic their marketshare is for Edge for example, even though it’s the default browser on Windows. They still haven’t been able to shake off the bad stigma that Internet Explorer had (and to be fair, they aren’t doing people any favours with Edge either).

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      The new Outlook is fucking awful.

      How did they fuck up email? Just put them all on the left and let me read and move them in the fewest clicks possible.

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        15 days ago

        also trying to add more emails to outlook. How do you fuck that up. You only get the options for suggested emails or new email creation.

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        16 days ago

        If you go to Google and search for xview mailtool screenshots, you might realize just how fucked up today’s email UIs are.

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          16 days ago

          i used to use gmail and i still havent forgiven google for scrapping the plain html version :/