Microsoft is about to kick off BUILD, and showing new Windows on ARM PCs! AZ is suing Amazon over unfair business practices! iFixit digs even deeper into how much wireless charging sucks. And maybe the Dead Internet theory is true?
Warum ist das legal!? #Microsoft war um 2000 kurz davor zerschlagen zu werden, weil es den Internet Explorer mit Windows gebündelt hat. Heute ist Edge fest eingebaut und man bekommt einen Reparaturtipp, wenn man nicht Bing benutzt.
This notification in the #Windows start menu is to get me to sign in so they can serve ads all over the OS, right? No thanks. #Microsoft#enshittification
Does #Microsoft#Word no longer allows people to open .ODT files? Have, a few times, had to safe .ODT files as .DOCX via LibreOffice so that Word users could open it.
.ODT is an open source file format, so its a deliberate choice for Word to not be compatible.
Why do people pay for a shitty product that lacks such basic functionality?
Oh cool. Just got the "We've got an update for you" dialog from Windows... with three unlabelled buttons and no ability to close with alt+f4. Good to see that continued commitment to accessibility right there in a highly visible part of the OS. They must all be busy with that pivot to AI.
The buttons don't appear to have any text on them or at least none that OCR can pick up. I thought I'd check the UIA AutomationId just in case that revealed anything useful. The buttons do have different AutomationIds... of "Button2", "Button1" and "Button0", in that order.
But ... but but ... it's #microsoft. Their commitment to #accessibility is beyond reproach! It's what all the articles say and everything. ...Except no, not really, it's been a mess for years and it saddens me
Ja, natürlich kann man von einem #FotoBug sprechen, den #Apple schnellst möglich schließen wird, um seine Kunden vor dem #GAU zu bewahren. ...
Was für ein Käse.
Apple hat wieder einmal bewiesen, dass es sich weder an die eigenen Worte hält (30 Tage Speicherdauer), noch an Gesetze. Apple ist erwiesenermaßen eine #Datenkrake, die einmal erhobene Daten wie einen #Schatz hütet und den Kunden über die Existenz belügt. Das ist ein offener #Vertrauensbruch.
Alors que Microsoft vise une empreinte carbone négative en 2030, pour le moment ce sont 29,1 % d'émissions supplémentaires de CO2 qui ont été émises par la firme en 2023.
Et ce alors que le fournisseur n'est qu'au début de l'histoire d'une GenAI follement énergivore.
It took me way too long to figure out what "pmby" could mean ...
Thanks #Microsoft#Office365 admin panel - yet more sloppy work in the world of I.T. which is ever so common these days. Every day supporting this stuff is so disappointing.
Wachstum, aber in die falsche Richtung: Microsoft hat nicht weniger, sondern fast 30% mehr CO2-Emissionen. Es ist nicht leicht mit den Klimazielen, wenn Du dem KI-Hype verfallen bist.
Microsoft´s Outlook really needs a bulk edit function for calendar events.
I´m spending a quarter of an hour cancelling individual meetings ahead of my vacation.
Here´s a free user story for the Outlook team:
As an Outlook calendar user
I want to be able to select events across a given timeframe and respond to all of them with a single action
so that I can cancel all appointments during my vacation.
Peak enshittification. I've finally been 'updated' from Mail and Calendar to 'new' Outlook, and the go back toggle has been removed. This means no offline access, no shortcut to a calendar, no touch support, no unified inbox. What a complete clusterfuck. Thanks #microsoft. Oh, and thanks to our IT department for locking out any other mail client, including all clients for #linux
Microsoft has increased carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 30 percent since 2020, making its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030 even more difficult, and it looks like AI is to blame.
After dealing with pre-installed malware on this mini-PC, I'm FINALLY done reviewing the hardware! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/459
"Besides the malware" does an Intel Core i9 make sense in a system like this?