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jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


no

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Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
same but ms bob look and feel option

Crazy Achmed
Mar 13, 2001

i feel poorer for not having ever used microsoft bob. did it ever get released as abandonware/etc?

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Gentle Autist posted:

can we stop having this nostalgia take every 3 posts. thanks

win10 chrome is basically win2k so it's officially not nostalgia

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
updated win 10 yesterday. it showed me a full-screen prompt to upgrade to 11. when I said no, it presented me with another full-screen prompt asking me “are you suuuuuuuuuuure?” kinda desperate, tbh

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

quote:

The Cortana feature was only officially called “Cortana” after the codename leaked during development—another early suggestion was “Alyx,” and then-CEO Steve Ballmer tried to name it “Bingo” as a “parting gift” before handing the reins to current CEO Satya Nadella. (Ballmer had “poor product taste,” says Paruchuri, in what we in the tech biz call “an understatement.”)

mystes
May 31, 2006

Bingo is an insanely stupid name BUT I could almost see it working if they brought back the power pup office assistant and retconned that as its name

mystes fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Dec 27, 2021

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

bingo is better than cortana actually

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


bingo up your rear end

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

i still can't get over the fact they named it cortana right before releasing the halo game that made cortana into Basically Thanos

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
picturing an increasingly red and sweaty ballmer screaming “BINGO BANGO!” over and over again

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

lol i wish it had been named bingo

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

cortana sucking its toe .jpg

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

bingo already has bing in it plus it has “go” in it which makes way more sense to the kind of windows user who would ever use such an assistant. wtf is a cortana? doesnt office come with a font named cortana too? ballmer was right.

mystes
May 31, 2006

polyester concept posted:

bingo already has bing in it plus it has “go” in it which makes way more sense to the kind of windows user who would ever use such an assistant. wtf is a cortana? doesnt office come with a font named cortana too? ballmer was right.
Ballmer did nothing wrong

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

polyester concept posted:

bingo already has bing in it plus it has “go” in it which makes way more sense to the kind of windows user who would ever use such an assistant. wtf is a cortana? doesnt office come with a font named cortana too? ballmer was right.

ya I thought bingo was pretty good 😶

cowboy beepboop
Feb 24, 2001

all on-prem exchange servers stopped processing queues on New Years because of a date bug lol

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

cowboy beepboop posted:

all on-prem exchange servers stopped processing queues on New Years because of a date bug lol

orgs should exchange it for a better mail server

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
anyone still using on prem exchange instead of office 365 deserves what they get

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Shaggar posted:

anyone still using on prem exchange instead of office 365 deserves what they get

could you imagine janitoring that poo poo in 2022?

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
whatever the excuse people give for on prem exchange, the real reason is they're way out of compliance on licensing.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Shaggar posted:

whatever the excuse people give for on prem exchange, the real reason is they're way out of compliance on licensing.

a lot of them are government. so checks out

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

yospos socialists think theft and violence is good so they probably all use on prem exchange

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
we've got a hybrid exchange setup because management doesn't want to pay for full azure AD. also i think we've got a few legacy systems rattling around that wouldn't be able to authenticate with ms365. but mostly the cost thing.

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
you dont need full azure ad for office 365 tho.

cowboy beepboop
Feb 24, 2001

akadajet posted:

orgs should exchange it for a better mail server

there is only one corp mail server and his name is exchange

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

the xps 13 plus looks like absolute poo poo

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?
upgraded to 11. they removed the "never combine taskbar buttons" option? gently caress this poo poo. my taskbar is 99% empty and the two windows open are combined.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



HappyHippo posted:

upgraded to 11. they removed the "never combine taskbar buttons" option? gently caress this poo poo. my taskbar is 99% empty and the two windows open are combined.

they also made it so that the taskbar context menu only appears if you right-click the start button when previously it would appear if you right-click anywhere on the taskbar. i'm super used to launching task manager by right-clicking the taskbar so it's driving me crazy.

that ofc is a minor nuisance and the worst part(s) of the win11 UI is the removal of full-screen start and its replacement with this bullshit:



there's no way to disable or hide that "Recommended" section so it is just foreverially wasted space. previously i've always used full-screen start as it's the best loving way to do poo poo. pin your primary apps to the taskbar and pin your secondary apps to the start menu where they appear as big buttons that you can launch with winkey+click button. now instead you've got a 6x3 grid of medium sized icons along with a bunch of dumb wasted space it's so stupid

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



oh also the reason i came here:

https://twitter.com/PubicZirconium/status/1479161707083751424

El Mero Mero
Oct 13, 2001

mystes
May 31, 2006

Lol

Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

guy hunkin

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Clark Nova posted:

guy hunkin

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



yesterday i discovered that applocker isnt available on windows server core. fuckin bizarre

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Clark Nova posted:

guy hunkin

mystes
May 31, 2006

https://twitter.com/louisnicholls_/status/1487179285177815047

(What they're actually doing is asking people to give consent to make the ads look like emails because otherwise it might be illegal in the EU)

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/accursedfarms/status/1494479783408852992?s=20&t=OCkVZL6gELZvkBYFqm8qZQ

so is this another one of those things they are going to furiously backpedal on in a week or so?

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

The_Franz posted:

https://twitter.com/accursedfarms/status/1494479783408852992?s=20&t=OCkVZL6gELZvkBYFqm8qZQ

so is this another one of those things they are going to furiously backpedal on in a week or so?

i doubt it, for 99.95% of people the option of not registering a microsoft account is a trap choice, probably just as well to get the remaining 0.05% onto gentoo or whatever where they'll genuinely be happier.

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Tankakern
Jul 25, 2007

lol

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