SUCKERS!
See title.
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There is that, but also, many corporations' investment portfolios have MS stock in the mix so of course, what is mandated as employee kit?
Nope, no conflict of interest there!
(no I don't see the logic in it either, but nobody ever accused the psychopathic, inbred* money grubbing boards of directors of being logical, now have they? Uber scooters anyone?)
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((*many director members are also members of other boards of directors))
I was hoping I could confirm one of those names was a person I had to deal with, but alas, even though it was the same time frame, it's been too long for me to remember their name.
I'm not going to go into details, but I had a contract agency representative "chisel" an out of town expense claim that I had submitted. I made damn sure to keep both the original and the one they fiddled. That's when when I first learned the REAL importance of covering my ass.
Same person who tried to directly screw me out of pay on another job a few years later. After raising holy hell, I am now permanently blacklisted from that agency. Got my money though. Don't miss the agency one bit either.
But I really hope that person is on that list.
What is MS known for? Or, what makes it so widespread?
Here's the big ones:
User side:
Outlook
Then...
Office
With Teams a solid but distant third
Enterprise side:
Active Directory, now morphing to Azure and InTune
Dynamics
Sharepoint
and of course, Server
Of course, it's all more complicated than that, but these are the highlights.
XP when I got my first large scale corporate support job. I'd been fixing PCs for years before as far back as DOS 3 and worked my way up to NT 4 as a small scale server admin. But it wasn't until XP that I was working for really large deployments. i.e. thousands instead of a few hundred.
XP was a bloody nightmare. Unstable, slow, and unpredictable. XP was where I learned to hate MS.
The love for XP is insanity. Win 7 was also garbage until SP 2 made it tolerable. How have people forgotten about the BSOD?
MS has never made a good OS, but at least I've hardly ever seen a BSOD in years. Still hate MS though. An OS that constantly gets in its own way.
I've worked contract for years only it's really temp work. And once you get on the temp train, almost nobody wants to hire you onto the client company, or any company. Oh they say temp-to-hire, but it never is.
Temp workers are always treated as second class. No paid sick days, no paid holidays, no raises, the most expensive self-paid "benefits" plans. (how paying for your own "benefit" is a benefit in any way has yet to be explained to me.)
So good the NLRB told google to kiss ass! Long term temp work has to go.