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what is the best product that microsoft ruined
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hotmail 14 18.67%
skype 22 29.33%
linkexchange 7 9.33%
visio 11 14.67%
great plains more like great pains 8 10.67%
other please specify 13 17.33%
Total: 35 votes
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Dans Macabre
Apr 24, 2004


this is what happens when you sell out to non Free loving corporations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdZHR75iCM

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Fiedler
Jun 29, 2002

I, for one, welcome our new mouse overlords.
the acquisition hasn't even closed yet. those microsoft guys move fast!

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


visio 2017 is actually pretty good though it still has the "haha you moved one box? you are like a babby: what you meant to do was blow the diagram the gently caress up watch this : fffucckkkkk" problem

voted skype because whenever ive used it it's completely sucked rear end

Fiedler
Jun 29, 2002

I, for one, welcome our new mouse overlords.
danger is by far the best microsoft acquisition story

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
it's windows, OP

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

down with GitHub

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

Fiedler posted:

danger is by far the best microsoft acquisition story

this right here

the windows phone 7 series phone thread was prob. the funniest ongoing saga of corporate ineptitude that will ever be

it had the phone call from mt kilimanjaro!

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
i've never participated in a poll and i don't have any strong feelings so i chose "other", OP.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

LastInLine posted:

this right here

the windows phone 7 series phone thread was prob. the funniest ongoing saga of corporate ineptitude that will ever be

it had the phone call from mt kilimanjaro!

roz ho says "gently caress it, we'll do it live"

pram
Jun 10, 2001

LastInLine posted:

this right here

the windows phone 7 series phone thread was prob. the funniest ongoing saga of corporate ineptitude that will ever be

it had the phone call from mt kilimanjaro!

thank you microsoft for spending $10 billion on many laughs

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
if your company depends on github being up to build/deploy/test anything, you've hosed up and you deserve this

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010
downtime as a service

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
esr mustve uploaded his chode

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
the true answer is MSN Messenger, op

R.I.P.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

is the poll a trick? i don't think microsoft has every bought anything good

Chopstick Dystopia
Jun 16, 2010


lowest high and highest low loser of: WEED WEE
k
What used to be better about Visio?

Chopstick Dystopia
Jun 16, 2010


lowest high and highest low loser of: WEED WEE
k
Also they ruined excel when they took out flight sim

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Fiedler posted:

the acquisition hasn't even closed yet. those microsoft guys move fast!

lol

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

more like shithub

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Tokamak posted:

more like shithub

lol good one

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
Microsoft bought dos and ruined it

Postmaster GBS
Jan 14, 2013

dragon enthusiast posted:

downtime as a service

lol

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
does sourceforge still create installer packages with their own adware poo poo in them?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

infernal machines posted:

does sourceforge still create installer packages with their own adware poo poo in them?

the new owners claim they don't, but lol if you trust it anymore.

they still have those stupid download redirects.

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

remember when adblocker lists and even chrome at one point blocked sourceforge as a known malware domain?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

The_Franz posted:

remember when adblocker lists and even chrome at one point blocked sourceforge as a known malware domain?

yeah. that's because they were a malware domain

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

you down with opp (other people's pull-requests)?

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

dragon enthusiast posted:

downtime as a service

windows update popups now passive-agressively point out that windows is a service and therefore you will be served updates whether you like them or not, scrub.

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010
my power went out yesterday and when I turned the computer back on Windows decided that was the perfect time to apply the Windows update I had been deferring

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
we don't use github, we just have a local git repository, but i still call it github constantly.

its like kleenex

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
how has no one created gitswitch?

Dorothy Lynch
Jul 3, 2018
its still windows

Media Bloodbath
Mar 1, 2018

PIVOT TO ETERNAL SUFFERING
:hb:
one of my old employers issued me a windows phone when they were brand new and it convinced me to move on asap which in turn lead to very positive outcomes.

one of the worst windows products is still excel for Mac.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Media Bloodbath posted:

one of the worst windows products is still excel for Mac.

:agreed:

no wait what about the hololens or the windows phone phablets?

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Stereotype posted:

we don't use github, we just have a local git repository, but i still call it github constantly.

its like kleenex

sounds like an adhesive bandage solution

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Tokamak posted:

more like shithub

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Tokamak posted:

more like shithub

dragon enthusiast posted:

downtime as a service

good posts

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Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Stereotype posted:

we don't use github, we just have a local git repository, but i still call it github constantly.

its like kleenex

Same WRT Slack. :blush:

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