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Will Microsoft PLEASE STOP RESETTING MY DEFAULT BROWSER TO EDGE
Every time they do it adds another year to the time I'm willing to give Edge a shot. At this point we're looking at the next glacial period.
The only thing keeping me from full time macOS are keyboard shortcuts and Visual Studio.
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Chris Maunder
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I have that set. And I've gone into the swamp that is settings for file types so when I double-click .html it opens !Edge.
And yet...
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Chris Maunder
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I've also noticed that even if you've got it working & using X browser for HTML etc, it doesn't matter when it is a Microsoft help (etc) link, it will still start up Edge -- which is also annoying because now to view Microsoft OS doc or help it starts yet another browser.
I've used Microsoft since Win 3.0 (before WFW) and I finally left the OS a couple years back because it got so annoying.
The only thing I miss is full Visual Studio -- (I use Visual Studio Code every day) -- but I don't miss VS much because the only thing you need it for really is Desktop Development -- and no one does Desktop WinForms apps any more, right (huge troll). 
When I have to do desktop dev I either RDP to a win box or start up the old win10 VM.
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Thant stinks.
I know it is not an issue for my work machine or my machine at home, so it appears that Microsoft is being selective with whom they frustrate at the moment.  Not helpful, I know, but I am just glad it is not me at the moment.
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Mine doesn't get reset, but ...
What annoys me is when they deliberately open Edge despite Chrome being my default browser. And Bong when I set "Google please". 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It used to be that in a dev team you would have a project manager. If you had a good PM, he would handle all the process issues, interact with business users, manage requirements, etc. Basically get all the development roadblocks out of the way so that the developers in the team could work unimpeded or delayed waiting on other groups.
Now we have scrum masters, whose only concern seems to be that I's are dotted and T's crossed with respect to stories and tasks, but then offload all of the PM work on the developers.
I just spent 2 1/2 hours talking to business owners for an app that needed upgrading, just to get concensus on a design change. I have asking the scrum master for the last two weeks to see that this gets done. His latest response was to call a meeting with everyone involved to do a "demo" - even though everyone has already seen the updated app and have been playing with it. We just needed a go/no go on the design. And of course there was no agenda, no explicit purpose stated for this meeting and what needed to be achieved.
Are PMs extinct now that the work has gone "agile"? Is no one responsible now to get this administrative work out of the developers way?
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"If you had a good PM..."
That's key - I've had way too many worthless PM's -- former programmers who were not good at programming, so took the PM classes to stay employed. Just called meetings recurring weekly and did nothing else. Had very little clue as to what the project needed to accomplish. In my view it's the person, not their job title.
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I have had both good and bad PM's. The good ones were priceless....
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in my experience.
Scrum masters make more money and do less work.
A good PM is worth their weight in gold.
I have yet to encounter even one Scrum Master who is worth their own salt.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Andreas Mertens wrote: one responsible now to get this administrative work out of the developers way
Maybe you're looking for the Product Owner?
Andreas Mertens wrote: scrum masters, whose only concern seems to be that I's are dotted and T's crossed
Correct. Maybe you need to revisit the definition of a Scrum Master -- it does not involve project management.
Andreas Mertens wrote: spent 2 1/2 hours talking to business owners
Definitely not what a developer should be doing. Don't do that.
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I am aware that scrum masters and PM's are different roles. And their are no "Product Owners" just the business owners and they do not interact directly with the dev teams.
It is a big government installation, so I do expect a lot less from them. But the disappearance a proper PM (and dev managers too for that matter) is a disturbing trend.
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I am not sure who got the idea the scrum master has to do product owner stuff.... But can as well be a developer as the scrum master, because it should be neither.
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No ownership. Doesn't appear you have anyone on the team that actually cares if the thing is done. Taking ownership usually means annoying someone (like going over their heads or around them). No honors at the end; even after you get it done.
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We retired. Corporate management has always looked down at software development. Those "marketing types" that fill most of the C-level seats think that product development is something that can be done to a time-line and on demand. Project managers buffered their development teams from the ridiculous "product windows" demands and temper tantrums of those morons. Then they started demanding that they control how we do our jobs as development strategies began to proliferate - continuous development, agile, etc. Do they pay for training? Hell, no. Project managers were just supposed to know how to implement these new strategies, teach it to our teams and implement each. Of course, halfway through a project, some C-level moron read about another new strategy and demanded its implementation. It got to the point where the pressures and hassles of the job just were not worth the pay. I quit and found a position in which I was the sole developer, but even there financial and regulatory pressures started to mount. I retired and became a rancher. I work harder and longer in all kinds of weather and continue to program as a hobby - I am much happier!!
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dealing with a "newer" application from the evil empire. *cough* powerBI *cough*
Stupid memory hog and a half.
Ok it does do easy pretty well. It also does pretty fairly well.
But none of that is what annoys me. Right now the biggest annoyance is the stupid interface that doesn't accept hotkeys. Close the current BI worksheet/data you would think control F4 or perhaps Ctrl-W Nope. You have to close the entire application.
Also, Alt-F-S you would think that would save. Nope Alt DOES NOT EVEN WORK!
Why the heck?
MS spent years teaching everyone to use the Alt Key and the Control key and now they take them away.
Just annoying.
But back to the closing of the current workbook. So I have to close the entire application before I can open another workbook. Or I have to have two workbooks open at the same time before I can close another one. and since this is a huge memory hog. Wellllllllll.
1 out of 5 would not recommend.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: But back to the closing of the current workbook.
But what are you meaning by closing the current workbook?, are you meaning the current tab in the report designer?
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nope I mean closing whatever project I am currently working on. It would be the same as closing a project in Visual Studio or closing an Excel Workbook or closing a database in Access, or a presentation in powerpoint.
You simply cannot close the current document etc... without closing the entire application and there are no hotkeys to do anything. Everything is a mouse click.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: You simply cannot close the current document etc... without closing the entire application
In Power BI, you are always going to work with one document (in this case the report) or the Workbook in Excel. This report can then have multiple tabs (called pages which you would call sheets in Excel).
You can not close individual pages the same way you can not close individual sheets in an Excel workbook.
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did you read my response or my question? seriously did you actually take the time to read it?
I only want to work in one project/report/document at a time. I just want to be able to close the flipping report and leave PowerBI open so I can open the next one I want to work on. That is all.
Also, I simply want ALL freaking hotkeys to actually work. Alt-F(ile)-S(ave) should work dang nabbit.
Ctrl-F4 should close it.
Please read my question before replying. I would appreciate it.Thanks
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: I just want to be able to close the flipping report and leave PowerBI open so I can open the next one I want to work on.
Maybe yes am misinterpreting your questions but then again, in visual studio is it possible to close an open project and leave visual studio open?
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Alt F T
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: Alt F T
Now I just learnt 1 more VS keyboard shortcut today. Probably there exists an equivalent one in Power BI.
modified 3hrs 20mins ago.
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I am going to apologize for my rough language in an earlier post. I am sorry about that. I am very annoyed with MS right now. Even though that is not an excuse.
Sorry about that.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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