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I hate you Microsoft

149 points · 82 comments · henriquenunez

  1. yndoendo · · focus · HN ↗
    You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and services.

    The user experience gets worse with each passing year. A good product designer would see numerous flaws with in five minutes of using their office suite.

    1. vinni2 · · focus · HN ↗
      > You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and services.

      I had this same attitude and boy did they pay me (or my startup) to use azure, they gave us shit load of free credits I couldn’t resist.

      But at the same time my university is forcing us to use Exchange for email. I have no way around that and Office 365 and Teams are default softwares. I hate it but I can’t do anything about it.

      1. WalterBright · · focus · HN ↗
        How can they force you to not use Thunderbird mail? If I use Thunderbird mail to send an email to an Exchange user, would it be blocked? How about vice versa?
        1. vinni2 · · focus · HN ↗
          Well sure you can use Thunderbird but our IT department makes it harder. You need to authenticate more often if you use anything other than outlook and Thunderbird unfortunately doesn’t support office 365 calendar. Now the exchange server dropped support EWS forcing everyone to use their Graph API which is yet to be supported by Apple mail.
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