Re: So many things wrong here
Yep. I've seen it as well.
Hence my rant. And my drinking problem.
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I... Christ, WTF?
Help-desk should NEVER have user account control. That's why there are Levels. In many places not even Level 3 has that kind of access. User account should be an entirely separate team under the purview of security or system admin. With attendant MFA.
I have not worked anywhere for years where help-desk has that kind of authority.
I can see this mistake being made at very, very small organizations, but medium to large businesses? Are they effing kidding?
Next, user control changes require a ticket. Which again, is assigned to security or system admin. Who should know why the account is having problems. And ANY elevation of access (if requested) cannot be granted without a manager's sign off.
Good god, WTF are those organizations doing?!
But back to the topic: help-desk should never have user access control and a ticket should ALWAYS be generated for the issue. And some kind of MFA, even verbal, should be de facto.
It really seems as if Microsoft is a set of disparate groups of people, some with designers, some without, whose job it is to just keep writing code, adding features and changing stuff.
Because it is. At every level.
I know some old MS programmers. The stories they tell of the dept rivalry and silos will give you nightmares. But it explains everything wrong with MS.
CSS is what happened.
To be fair, CSS was in response to MS breaking webpage design as much as possible. (Remember Frontpage?) CSS acted as a way to get some control back.
Then tables fell out of favor and CSS rose as the defacto page formatting.
To this day, I still see no reason to use CSS except in VERY limited circumstances.
And that's just ONE of hundreds of things I hate about modern websites.
https://archive.navalsubleague.org/2012/a-century-of-american-submarine-propeller-design
The design was held in great secrecy by the Navy, but Toshiba sold propeller milling machinery with accompanying computer programming to Kongsberg Ltd. of Norway which in turn sold it to the Soviets. That government used the computer data to rapidly begin a program to imitate research of the US Navy.
The data is sold.
It's the modern version of the mailing list. The money is in selling the contact information to other companies and ad agencies.
This has been a thing long before any of us were born. And just as sleazing.
And yes, corps have more than enough money to keep this ethereal market afloat and very, very profitable to all involved. Except you and I, of course.
Windwows 11 makes Windows 10 look like a wallflower. And Windows 10 was bad enough.
I spent several months figuring out how to turn off the intrusive carp.
Windows 10 is the nosy neighbor. Windows 11 is the loud nosy neighbor who throws their trash into your yard and puts spycams in your bathroom.