Posts by StinkyMcStinkFace 52 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2022
Microsoft's attitude is a prime reason why we don't use closed software.
I don't remember adding microsoft to our board of directors, and I don't take orders from you.
I don't "opt-in" or "opt-out" of any of your mandates.
"we've extended the opt-out timeline..." OK stop right there. Please stick this where the sun doesn't shine.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
They are not shoving anything down my throat. We have already transitioned off of almost all microsoft products. Transition to Graph? No, we are rebuilding apps right now to use other technology and completely deleting our dependency on Office. It's a mix of stuff including AWS. I voted for zero cloud based stuff, but it's not my call.
My dev teams are now using Mac and Linux. 0% are using Windows. Literally zero.
Any more updates you would like to force on us, Microsoft?
They've already done this transition. Call any of these companies now and you get to talk to AI which asks your ridiculous questions which don't apply to your situation, and blocks you from speaking to a human. You go around in circles until you give up.
They consider this a success. What sad times we live in.
I'm seeing this in real life.
Our management is single mindedly fixated on EVERYTHING MUST be in the cloud. They don't understand what that is. They don't know what that will cost and what they will lose.
And most importantly, THEY DON'T CARE.
Everything in the cloud, shutdown all our datacenters.
This has been mandate we are working under for almost 5 years now.
It's like they are hypnotized.
What's really sad is that the systems they have purchased / built in the cloud only have about 70% of the functionality of our home-grown on-prem systems. Again, they don't care. If you point it out, you are not a team player.
Then, the bill comes... OMG how are we going to pay for this? I know, let's fire our engineering staff.
At least I was around for the glory days of computing, RIP.
The last reasonably good version of Windows was XP. That's when we started to see the evil in Microsoft starting to manifest.
It started with licensing and activation. Everything was gradually, step by step, being shifted away from the user's control, over to Microsoft's control.
The elephant in the room isn't failures in Windows. It is MICROSOFT. The company stopped being about delivering products, it has joined all the other corporations in the single goal of complete control of, and spying on their "users". I wouldn't even call them customers, "livestock" would be a better term for them.
Everything is FORCED. You can get on your knees and beg the overlords to delay this "update" for a month, but make no mistake, you WILL submit to the will of Microsoft.
I mean come on, the Windows 11 fiasco is so painfully obvious, and Microsoft's demand that everyone login to a microsoft account. How can ANYONE not see what is going on.
F THAT!
We are NOT moving to windows 11 - EVER.
We are NOT moving our data to Microsoft's cloud - EVER.
We are NOT giving up Exchange 2016 - EVER.
The fault is not on us. It's on Microsoft. Microsoft did this to us. Microsoft cut off support.
I will not pay a subscription.
I will not give up my data sovereignty.
No amount of threats or insults will change those facts.
I spent the last 40 years of my career focusing on DOS, and then Windows 3.1 all the way up to Windows 10 software development - AND I AM PISSED OFF. I am angry that I wasted my life in Microsoft's eco system.
NO MORE.
You know where you can shove it, Microsoft.
The question is not why the Navy is allowing this disaster, why is ANYONE in the world buying something that they can't repair?
I certainly would never buy something like that. I fix my own cars, my own tractors, home appliances, even my heat pump. I do my own plumbing. I've rebuilt 3 car engines, I don't anymore because I don't have the time, but that's not the car manufacturer's choice, it's MINE.
It's my choice. No one is going to take that away from me.
If your product is not repairable, I'm not even going to consider it for purchase. You don't exist.
I'm talking to you, John Deere.
The supreme arrogance of corporations like Microsoft and VMware is beyond belief.
Microsoft: no, you are NOT bullying us to give up our on prem exchange servers.
Microsoft no, you are not bullying us to stop using Windows 10.
VMware, no, I'm not paying a billion dollars for your absurd subscription. Hello Proxmox.
GET BENT.
I worked for a company and they started outsourcing 25% of our software development to China. It was horrific. One evening I was sitting in the CEO's office and I said, you know, ALL the code we get back from China is rubbish. It's completely unusable and we have to throw it away and rewrite it ourselves.
He looked at me with no expression and said "We know. You're getting paid, just do your job." I sat there with my jaw on the floor....
Friends of mine who are unfortunate to work for this ghastly company tell me that IBM stands of I've Been Moved.
This goes back over 30 years.
IBM forces employees to move so they cannot develop friendships at work.
I remember them being relevant back in the 70's, mainframe days, but Jesus.
IBM needs to go away along with Microsoft. I can't believe they are still in business.
The company I knew 30 years ago that provided a decent product that you could purchase and use... is dead. Microsoft no longer exists.
The steaming pile of crap we have now is all that remains of a once good corporation.
They were never perfect by a long shot, but at least you could buy something and use it effectively.
That no longer exists.
There is nothing wrong with Exchange or Windows 10.
There is something wrong with Microsoft corporation.
This is not about W11 is better or worse than W10. It's about TYRANNY. Its about these corporations saying YOU WILL DO THIS, we OWN YOU. You have NO CHOICE. OBEY. YOU WILL INSTALL OUR UPDATE weather you want it or not! Your choice means NOTHING to us.
This represents a complete shift from how the world was when I was a child. Corporations think they are our new unelected rulers. I have a BIG problem with this.
I will NOT comply.
This is not complicated.
We cannot prosecute the criminals in India making these calls, because our laws don't apply there.
But we absolutely can prosecute the VOIP providers in the USA who are knowingly and willingly passing OBVIOUSLY fraudulent, spoofed calls to American victims.
Shut them DOWN, as in TODAY.
Arrest the CEO's.
Liquidate the companies to pay restitution to the victims.
I read this article and I have no idea what SAP is. Did some search and found a company called SAP and read their website.
I STILL have no clue what SAP is.
Did some searching on "what is sap?". There are whole pages of people discussing WTF is SAP?
I read all that and I STILL have no clue what SAP is.
But I'm glad they are apparently doing well! Phew.
Apparently they are cloud mongers, so it's no surprise I would be VERY far away from them.
Every single week I see another thing that Microsoft is RIPPING away from me, without my consent.
WIndows 10 (the last version of windows ever) now being FORCED to go to 11 with ads.
Exchange Server with critical features being disabled: i.e. Unified Messaging.
Windows Mixed Reality being DELETED by force, ruining Microsoft Flight Simulator Virtual Reality which I spent thousands of dollars in hardware to support.
This is not about WSUS, it's a pattern. A pattern of abuse and anti-consumer behavior from Microsoft that started years ago.
And yes, add us to the list of GET OFF MICROSOFT PRODUCTS AT ALL COSTS!
I am one-by-one moving everything to Linux. It's a long road, but we are getting there.
No, the handheld controller connects to the Internet by WIFI and uploads flight logs and also get authorization to fly from DJI. No internet, no fly.
You can read countless stories of people vacations that were ruined because of this. Like people to spent a fortune to go on safari in africa and took the DJI drone, only to find that it would not take off due to no internet there in the bush.
I own two of them, I know how they work. I hate and despise DJI the company. The drone itself is great. The crippling spyware is horrific. My next drone will be home built.
Let's just cut right to the chase, ok?
VMWare is dead. It was dead the day announced the broadcom cancer infected it.
Some people haven't admitted to themselves yet, but they will.
Some of us who have decades of experience in this, and major gov contracts, already know it's dead and we are pissed off, but working on a migration plan.
The "pain coming" is the work I have to put in to migrate all my servers and services OFF of VMware onto another platform.
You think you are going to bully us into moving to "the cloud" like MicroSquish is trying to do with Office 359?
F YOU!
It was a good ride while it lasted. I'm done with Microsoft and I'm done with VMware.
I'll drink a toast to your stock plummeting.
You are going about this the wrong way. Apple is abusive to it's customers, so boycott them. I have boycotted them even long before this right to repair thing was a thing. In fact, my company gave me an iPhone for business use, for free, and I made them replace it with another manufacturer, I will NOT use any apple device for any reason.
In the 15 minutes I had my iPhone, I tried to install a 2-factor device, the very first thing I did with it. And I was told I could not, as it was an approved by Apple device.
F- YOU apple. I hate you, and I hate your products. Bye.
Google doesn't "HAVE" a problem. Google "IS" a problem.
We block their stuff at the firewall level.
Someone here said they exist to make money. No they don't, they exist to spy on people and harvest your data.
Teach your kids to stop using the term "google for something", it's a problem that is embedded in the fabric of society and they need to be stomped out.
