Posts by Always Right Mostly

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Re: Firefox is very slow

Maybe he also keeps 400 pints of beer in a refrigirted truck parked ou back "in case he needs them" as well.

Re: Firefox is very slow

30+ tabs is not a realistic scenario, it's an edge-case (and no, not the browser).

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

Re: OK, but what now?

Yeah but this is orders of magnitude more daunting if not prohibitive for people that are just tech enough to get uBlock Origin.

Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project

Re: Preferred bidder

I have no idea what you said and it doesn't really matter because what it breaks down to is "Why in the name of all things decent is Fujitso doing in *any* bid, tender, offer or basically even existing on British soil?"

There's the door...use it.

Any government that doesn't tell Fujtsu to fuck off and die needs to be forced to resign in shame.

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

How stuff works

The universe may not be infinite but greed is.

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

Re: Whats the worst that could happen?

I thin you meant to say "Trump mates with Putin".

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

Window 11 doesn't need Artificial Intelligence...

...just intelligence.

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

How about:

a) De-bloat Word and the rest of Office. Each has 15,000 {made this up but maybe close} features that 99% of users will never use. Make them install if wanted.

b) I'd bet a beer that most people do not start Windows and go directly to Word. Browser, yes. If corporate, Outlook, Excel.

Idiots.

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

Maybe just ask what we want?

Once upon a very long time ago I remember Microsoft reps would call or pay a visit and ask what we liked, didn't like and what we thought if there were enhancements of features that would be helpful.

Unicorns roamed the planet and I swam with mermaids.

Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent

Re: The way things are going

I wish I could upvote this 100x

Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws

Re: And Windows Update is still slow

There's a psychological toll to this as well as the constant churn of what's being capriciously removed from Windows. Software developers like us await with dread what we'll need to deal with on a monthly basis. And worse, what will be deprecated for no valid reason? Yeah, productivity down the drain as a service.

Microsoft tells abandoned Publisher fans to just use Word and hope for the best

The death of PowerPoint will at least make corporate presentations and other "sit and watch slides while I drone on with fear-for-my-job enthusiasm" events somewhat less hellish.

The end of Publisher will hopefully see the end of people using it to create invitations and community board announcements full of shit clip-art and "wacky, fun" fonts.

Microsoft signed a dodgy driver and now ransomware scum are exploiting it

If only there were processes and tools to test code before signing and shipping it.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

And this is how and why England gave us Orwell.

Re: iCloud Lock

Wait, what? Never done that, not about to test this for myself. Is there any documentation about this on Gmail T&Cs?

Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees

I picked a lousy time to stop drinking.

Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI

So, “Listen, learn, and improve”, you say...

Listen to this: "Fuck right off".

We did warn you – 2025 may be the year AI bots take over Meta's 'verse

So, good news.

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

Also just add msn.com with an IP of 0.0.0.0 to your hosts file.

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source

Re: Sorry, no.

Libre is misused. That Spanish word "libre" only applies to freedom, as in "Un hombre libre", a free man. If it's a thing, it is gratis, so "Libre Office" would correctly be "Office Gratis".

As a Hispanic, it's massively insulting that nobody ever did even a Google Translate before launching software or writing about freeware.

Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July

We just learned about this as a DR customer for decades from this article. They refused to put anything in writing only phone call. We yanked them off our site and are working out alternatives.

Would you mind sharing who you switched to? Most of the alternatives are waaaay to complex for a small biz...on IIS website at that.

Microsoft confirms IE bug squashed in Patch Tuesday was exploited zero-day

ieframe.dll is not evil

Besides it being the rendering engine for outlook.exe html emails, it's used to render html in business apps..we have one such ourselves.

The stuff being rendered it created on the fly and displayed, no internet anything.

IE11 on the other hand, Jesus T, Christ who is insane enough to use that? But, dear G above, don't do away ieframe.dll.