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Yesterday was a holiday, so today would have been perfect to take a day off for a long weekend. Instead, I decided to come to work today to finish something I promised the boss to have it ready for him on monday. The only thing I had to do was to wake up the computer and everything was already to go.
Mickeysoft had other plans. My Visual Studio license had evaporated, as it does every few months. Why does this sh*t always happen when nobody is here to look up the license keys? Unimportant, because Mickeysoft also pretends not to know me anymore. Even with a license key I could not do anything at the moment.
And, dear Mickeysoft, this is why I will not spend even one more Cent on your junk. If you must let your users hop through hoops once in a while, then see to it that it works and that the user can get on with his work. Even better, think about minimizing the hoops to jump through, so that the users don't associate your Mickeysoft logo with needless trouble so quickly and don't automatically throw up when seeing it.
And, as always, it's the honest users that you punish. The dishonest users always have patched the whole mess away and laugh their rear parts off.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Or have installed the Community Edition ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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CodeWraith wrote: And, as always, it's the honest users that you punish. The dishonest users always have patched the whole mess away and laugh their rear parts off.
Spot on. I've actually been tempted to download cracked MS cr@pware, when I've bought new machines, because it's a damned sight less trouble than being honest and decent.
But that's the way the world is, these days. If you're a good person, who doesn't want to cause trouble for anyone or steal from anyone, you'll never be left alone by @rseholes who claim all kinds of power over you, pretending that they're protecting you and your rights.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No. You can be honest without any harassment. For example, I can live very well with SharpDevelop instead of VisualStudio.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The same thing happens to any law-abiding citizen. The most egregious example is the laws imposed on law-abiding gun owners in a pointless effort to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Only the law-abiding gun owner is affected. Criminals, by their very nature, don't obey the law, so the laws are pointless.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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Been using MS products every day of my professional life for the last 20 years and never once had this problem. I'd say you're more the exception than the rule.
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Yes, three exceptions at the same day in the same place, now also including our boss himself. All our licenses have become 'stale', as they call it, all three Visual Studios are now on 'extended trial', which has also instantly expired and this registration/activation thingie does not recognize our user accounts anymore.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The same for me. Ok, for me, it´s the last 14 years… 
On the other side, i recently had to "repair" one of my Accounts and in order to prevent malicious password resets they´re using those ubiquitous everywhere-known captchas.
the problem i was facing:
I absolutely was not able to recognize their clutter of letters.
i postponed the whole sh*** a few days et voila, they gave me a mainly readable one…
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Don't bother him with the facts. He wants to hate Microsoft. I've seen him call people fanbois (or whatever the term is) when all they say is that they have not had the same problem.
When people complain that Microsoft products are not perfect it reminds me of 3 important points.
1. Go find a better product and stop using Microsoft.
2. What major piece of software or OS have you written that is bug free?
3. We're software developers so go fix their product. They have the best API's and SDK's and always have.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: He wants to hate Microsoft.
That's not even remotely true of the vast majority of people who complain about MS.
I was a big MS booster, back in the day when they were a software company that gave a cr@p about their customers' needs and the quality/usefulness of their products.
That a company that inspired such loyalty in me, and in millions of others, could turn into such cr@p is depressing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That's not even remotely true of the vast majority of people who complain about MS.
I agree.
Mark_Wallace wrote: could turn into such cr@p is depressing.
That's a very interesting perspective. I think their software is better than it has ever been. Any examples you care to share?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Any examples you care to share?
Seriously?
Do you use windows 10 or later versions of MS Office? (Office 2007 was bad enough, but the productivity-killing "COOOOOOL!" stuff from 2013 onward has made it ridiculous).
The only MS product that hasn't been dragged down to the bottom of the pit is VS -- but that's because their developers use it, and they only do unto others, not unto themselves.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Seriously?
Yes. As you can see from other responses, many people have no problems with Microsoft.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Do you use windows 10 or later versions of MS Office?
I have used every version of Windows and Office since '95.
But I noticed you did not give any specific examples.
I'll give you one. Windows 8. That was terrible. But they quickly rectified that. So, no, I don't see what you see which is why I wanted specific examples.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: But I noticed you did not give any specific examples.
I don't have a week to spare to cover them all, but what I might do, if you continue to feign blindness, is stick up a web page showing a few of the most annoying examples.
As I say, these won't be examples from VS, because the developers don't sh1t in their own pond, only in everyone else's -- so devs don't suffer the same ridiculous productivity degradations as everyone else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: f you continue to feign blindness
So, because I don't have the same experiences as you means I am blind? That tells me all I need to know about your position. Good day.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Translation:
"Hell, this guy's a good writer, and he knows computers! If he starts putting up web pages slamming the ****-ups that MS has been making over the last ten years, we'll be in sh1t street! Better end the discussion, quick!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You deal in emotions. I deal in facts. Sorry, they are incompatible in this case.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Very amusing. I'm sure that your colleagues appreciate the way you treat them.
Unfortunately, I'm one step further up the emotionless ladder than developers; I'm a Physicist.
As a person who takes a clinical view of everything (but who can describe anything in any colour you like), I can say that ten and more years ago, MS was the best major software house in the world, and their products were the best products -- MS Word, in particular, was an incredible piece of software, that could handle almost everything. It had its bugs, sure, but we had faith that MS would fix them.
And I fiercely defended MS in on-line discussions, against people who really were just "haters", with no real cause for their vitriol.
But, instead of fixing the huge backlog of bugs, MS just wrote them off (check the history: tens of thousands of bugs were just closed unfixed, when MS added the windows 8 shell over the top of the previous version -- and they did the same with all the MS Office bugs: they just deleted them).
Windows 10 is just plain awful. It still has all the bugs that have been brought forward from previous versions, and it introduces a ridiculously large amount of its own. E.g. have you tried to set up a network with Windows machines, lately?
Probably not, because the people who are happy with windows 10 are the people who do damn all with computers -- and most developers fall into that category: they code, browse the Internet, and play games. That's trivial usage, compared to most business users.
MS Office, the flagship of MS, is worse now than it has ever been. Everything is harder to do, and there are so many distractions built in that it's unbelievable. A huge number of productivity tools have disappeared (because they couldn't get them to work alongside the new "COOL!" features that no-one asked for or wants).
An example of their mindlessness in building this "BEST WINDOWS EVAH!":
Until I personally complained about it, the windows 10 on-screen keyboard was missing a number of "unimportant" keys (like F keys, and the Ctrl key!) -- but it did have thirty-odd pages of emojis!
And, I'll tell you what: **** it, given your pathetically uninformed but arrogant attitude, I'm going to put together a few pages about how MS has decimated productivity in the workplace, and how its "focus" cr@p (which I'm sure you're proud of, because they moronically claim that it "increases productivity") doesn't do a damned thing to ameliorate the problem, because professionals don't have social media apps active on work machines, anyway!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'm sure that your colleagues appreciate the way you treat them.
More emotional judgement.
Mark_Wallace wrote: all the MS Office bugs: they just deleted them).
Wait, are you suggesting there are no bugs in the code you have written? Again, you don't cite any specifics so I can't address specifics, but whatever bugs were deleted clearly are not impacting me or anyone else I know.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Windows 10 is just plain awful
More emotion and zero substance. If it is so plain awful, why are so many people saying they have no problem with it?
Mark_Wallace wrote: Everything is harder to do,
Again, no specifics.
Let me show you how it's done. For example, I love in Outlook that when I go to include an attachment, the drop-down shows the last X number of files I've had open on my machine. That is a productivity improvement.
Now that I gave you an emotionless example, maybe you can do the same? For example, the ribbon maybe? I was once like you (I hate to, but must admit it). Many eons ago when I went to a Microsoft event and saw what was coming, I hated the ribbon. Thought it was clunky and messy. My first reaction was "Dang, Microsoft, you idiots!" But then, since I am civilized, I started using the ribbon and after a little getting used to, found that it was much better in most cases. There were still some things hard to find though. But this was many, many years ago. Please don't tell me you're still upset about the ribbon? Who would know. You can't articulate the specifics of your complaints.
By the way, Microsoft did a ton of research on the ribbon and have data to backup that it is more productive. It was not done to be cool. If so, they would have removed it right away as so many people (myself included) thought it was hideous at first.
Mark_Wallace wrote: arrogant attitude,
 All I have done is ask you for specifics because I don't see things the way you do. Dang, you are so sensitive. Chill out bro.
Mark_Wallace wrote: which I'm sure you're proud of
More emotional judgement. Sad.
Mark_Wallace wrote: I'm going to put together a few pages about how MS has decimated productivity in the workplace
Please do. And make sure to let me know when you have done it. I'd love to see what specific issues have got you so uptight.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: He wants to hate Microsoft
EVERYBODY wants to hate Microsoft. Some of us are simply better at it than others...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: EVERYBODY wants to hate Microsoft
There's even the MSHF(*) cert you can get for it.
(*)Microsoft Hate ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif)
Software Zen: delete this;
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CodeWraith wrote: My Visual Studio license had evaporated, as it does every few months. Why does this sh*t always happen when nobody is here to look up the license keys? Unimportant, because Mickeysoft also pretends not to know me anymore. Even with a license key I could not do anything at the moment.
Used to happen to me twice a year like clockwork. I'd come in to work, fire up VS and... license key had expired. Except when we checked, Microsoft's dashboards still showed it as valid and active. Only way to fix it was to break the connection to my work email then re-establish it and go through the signup process. Hasn't happened for almost 12 months, so I'm a bit nervous that it'll break at any moment.
OT: Mickeysoft sounds like a name that Disney would use for their internal software team.
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