Posts by PeterM42 831 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jun 2009
Whatever - The outlook for Microcrap is NOT GOOD as they continue to piss off their traditional customers with their interference in what users try to do and gross lack of quality.
With Android and Chromebooks/ChomeOS gaining popularity, together with the possible amalgamation of these worthy systems into "Aluminum", and the plethora of brilliant android apps which could potentially be used on Aluminium, the emphasis will eventually shift from a Microcrap world to a Google one.
I generated a list following the introduction of Windows 11:
-Printing issues
-Memory leakage
-Installation issues
-Windows update problems
-BSODs
-Roaming profile problems + the nightmare that is One Drive!!!!!
-Microsoft Store issues.
-Laptop not charging problem (Did they ever actually FIX that one?
Nothing new here. Microsoft still struggling with the basics.
It's EASY to pinpoint precisely where it went wrong for Microsoft when it comes to quality. - There! FTFY
Bill Gates stepped down from his full-time executive role at Microsoft in 2008, leaving his position as chairman in 2014 and resigning from the board entirely in 2020.
1) It will cost more than estimated.
2) It will go to one of the known big boys in Govt systems or a friend of the PM.
3) It will not work even if you (the public) throw more money at it.
4) Failure will be blamed on the previous government.
5) Consultants will make lots of money "consulting" on it.
A: Because our TOTALLY INCOMPETENT government wants to look as though they are doing something to help all those immigrants (including asylum seekers) flooding into a country that doesn't want/need ANY MORE!
Our TOTALLY INCOMPETENT government does not spend THEIR money, they spend OURS. so they really do not give a s**t when they waste it. Which they do - consistently.
Eg: HS2, NHS, "Great British Rail". Need I go on?
" .......a patch emerged to patch the patch."
Was that the patch for the patch for the patch for the security update which was to patch an issue caused by an earlier patch?
Or,
etc., etc., etc.,
One wonders how much of Windoze is now patches compared to actual "original" code?
40%?
50%?
more?
....we won't be making anything, inventing anything or exporting any services.
The entire WORKforce (is anybody still working?) tendering to the needs of illegal immigrants and people who get permanent "sick notes" because they don't feel like working and feel the government should pay for their food, accommodation, energy, transport, massive TVs, iPhones. iPads, etc.
All at the expense of people who are wealthy enough to not need to work or have retired.
........ we have:-
Outlook - part of the MS Office suite (expensive installable client software)
Outlook - The piece of CRAP that replaced the pretty awful "Windows Mail" on Windows 11 (aka Windows version 10.0.22000+) - You get what you pay for!!!
Outlook - part of the appalling subscription Microsoft/Office 364½
Outlook.com (the website) (If it's working - hence 364½ or worse) - Not to be confused with hotmail.com, hotmail.co.uk, live.co.uk, etc., etc. (even though they seem to log in via a different portal to what you would expect!
Have I missed anything??????
Total lack of oversight since Bill Gates handed control over to the idiots!
Sheesh!!!!!
- Invent something everyone wants.
- Grow big on the proceeds.
- Grow even bigger on the fame and proceeds.
- Start ignoring the opposition as they are "not important".
- Start ignoring what your customer wants (like exponentially better products at a cheaper price).
- Ignore all the minnows of competition running under your feet & past your legs.
- Begin to realise all these minnows have produced better products at cheaper prices.
- Start cutting back, so that it becomes impossible to compete.
AI is clever stuff, but it is NOT "intelligence".
50% of the population are BELOW average intelligence.
Nuclear fusion is the tech dream of the past, the present and for the future.
Quantum Computing is the tech dream of the past, the present and for the future.
Microsoft still cannot produce fault-free software.
Or even a proper computer such as the Blackview MP60 with decent storage and full-blooded Windows.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226158667320?_skw=blackview+mini+pc&itmmeta=01JRB4CQRV53BJGZY4VQNSWQNX&hash=item34a81b6638:g:Uj4AAOSwSHBmTwdp&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1dosaM5zcivxQ8S0nozJwYnMMjICHClQqJXVCAO%2FUQcNTteTjqiwsWjej9c6VvhtinxluvKCgEi1z9WwBQcCJoojsxds1Z%2FCtfZf2%2BikwNXYSG25CFDF%2FBtxqpk5yHRbdLQncdS27VYS3VZOV1tVkqV2cz%2Fs3xg8EeaUcxuwbAbMQkXdNCgOJ3u9IMFdbGJa6sDLELbUbcCjLmSZD7Q323zqEJCm7hkuECZq5CxKU861OJTtvCdT9N0ROCQiV3HiqO6zH0dP0gPETc%2FJrr3dYQiphie9Py13AA%2BU7P1m91SKw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8r8suTCZQ
"The company attributed its most recent cloud failures to a problematic code change. It has yet to explain why so much of Europe appears to be experiencing a slowdown or complete outage in the EAC.
The company says: "The Exchange admin center (EAC) is a modern, web-based management console for managing Exchange that's designed to provide an experience more in line with the overall Microsoft 365 admin experience."
Judging by recent outages across Microsoft 365, we'd say it has done a stellar job there."
ie: SNAFU - Situation Normal All FOULED Up - Microsoft "Normal".
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