Mafia shit cause the mob boss is the President.

MS ️ Open Source

(/s)

This tells me LibreOffice has become a threat to Microsoft, and I'm here for it.

If anyone else is curious what it's like, LibreOffice's site is here. Highly recommend.

Relying on American companies is a liability in of itself.

While there is corruption everywhere and on a standardized basis, there are of course countries with higher levels of corruption, the US is the #1 source of corruption and criminality in the world. Additionally it's the ideological centre for global oligarch/criminal gangs.

Microsoft's monopoly in Windows and Office alone results in extraction of hundreds of billions of dollars from companies and individuals all around the world.

using Microsoft Word for too long makes me break out in Tourette's

Writer is so much more understandable

This isn't a conspiracy...

It's the reality of using Hotmail as a business account in 2025.

Which is frankly nuts.

But the author even says the same thing happened to them before too

Using Hotmail for anything was already a bad idea, using it for an open-source dev account is worse. I don't understand why they haven't switched to something else 20 years ago.

It tells me microsoft is petty

Empty story with clickbait title. Wouldn’t expect any less from modern “journalists”

High likelihood this just some AI bot with no oversight fucking up than something malicious. Outlook.com's support system is atrocious and devoid of humans at this point unless you're an enterprise.

I tried to go through their support to tell them their junk filter was fucking up (bank alerts being marked as junk with no way to override) and got nowhere after like two months. Had to change the email I use for banking.

Large corporations have zero empathy for competition.

What will their quarterly report say? Think of the stockholders. (/s)

By the way, ignoring as much of this big tech corpo crap as you can also makes you live an easier life.

Whenever I see a story of "some guy who relies on <big tech account> working loses access to it and suddenly can't do anything anymore" I think "this can never happen to me". Which means there's a whole category of problems you're suddenly never going to see. It also means you're less naive. So just don't vendor-lock yourself in. Don't put a log-in for an account which you don't control in front of important things you need to do. Simple as that.

On top of that, you'll also leak less private data about yourself and probably others as well. So you even make yourself less of a target when it comes to data protection laws or something. I know, these get routinely ignored. I'm just saying, if you don't even use the problematic stuff (or almost never), you'll also have potentially less legal troubles at hand. And you never know, legel troubles might not appear for a while but they could lurk far in the future. For example, many Nazis got into legal trouble for their participation in Nazi Germany, even decades later.

I know, the guy from the story probably only needed that account to ensure he can compare some stuff with how MS Office is behaving compared to LibreOffice, or things like that. So it's probably not a big deal. But generally speaking, you really shouldn't vendor-lock yourself in.

Yep, I don't remember the exact phrasing, but in these situations, I assume incompetence before I assume evil intent.

Maybe it is intentional but the incompetence is in how obvious they are.

Hell that's a compliment.

I'm not as in the loop these days - are some Linux pundits still trying the "maybe MS isn't as bad as they used to be" line or have we learned again now?

Who in their right mind uses hotmail?

What, Microsoft? The corporation built almost entirely out of copying Apple and buying up competitors to destroy them? Microsoft the convicted monopoly?

Noooooo! It can't be! They're so . . . uh . . . ubiquitous.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetentance

Is the saying, but it's definitely not always true.

Microsoft + GitHub = if you're using it still W T F are you thinking!!!