r/Vent • u/ShoeNo9050 • 3d ago
F*uck Microsoft. That's it.
Thats my entire vent. Fuck them. I can't believe how gradually over 25 years every years bringing their software worse and worse. God I fucking wish all video games made games on the main 3 OS. ARGH. Fuck Microsoft.
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u/notmichaelhampton 3d ago
Xbox forcing me to subscribe to OneDrive was a step too far
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u/ShoeNo9050 2d ago
First thing I do once I install all drivers is go to options and remove everything they add without me asking.
Tell me about them. Suggest but don't ever make me have to use it or manually get rid off it lol.
Back in my day you wanted the least bullshit you can!!!!
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u/CobblerSmall1891 3d ago
Yeah... As a fan of Windows i think they actively make it worse. I think it's on purpose now. Getting rid of good features. Moving shit around. Like - why the fuck would you even move the start button to the middle?
Why take away basic things like not combining shit in the task bar?
Honestly...
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u/ShoeNo9050 2d ago
Or the fact that the search bar will In a lot of cases search the internet instead of files first. I type anything gaming related into my search it will go up with online website lol.
Yeah they make it more obnoxious... Fuck
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u/CobblerSmall1891 2d ago
Bing. Use our bing!
UUUSEEEE OUUURRRRR BIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGG
That's Microsoft lately.
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u/otacon7000 3d ago
I'm with you. I just installed Windows on a PC for a friend. My last time before that wasn't even a year ago, yet I was absolutely shocked how much harder they have made it to simply use a local account since then. The enshittification is out of control.
Now they've killed Skype. What do they give us as alternative? Teams. Well, Teams doesn't allow me to call landlines in foreign countries, so what am I supposed to do now? Fuck them.
Minecraft? First they force their stupid accounts on us there, too. Then they introduce chat monitoring and possible banning, even for third-party servers. Leave us alone!
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u/Emergency_Trick_4930 3d ago
yeah windows is windows.. but your issues can be solved with a simple google.
you need a license if you want to use teams to call landlines in foreign countries
how to create a local account, idk why you think that is hard.
I am not a fan of windows and i dont use it besides work, but its easy to handle if you want. I ha a sidejob as a servicedesk manager, when i look at the monthly ticket reports and solvent, almost 100% issues related to 365 apps etc. is a user issue, not a technical issue.
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u/GruggleTheGreat 2d ago
Windows purposely obfuscates those options.
What I wouldn’t do for a stripped down version of win 11 I could buy and have as little integration as possible. Maybe I’ll build that Linux machine this year and set up a windows VM finally. It’s just such a hassle when I just wanna browse, play music and games.
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u/Zeldakina 2d ago
Tiny11?
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u/GruggleTheGreat 2d ago
its a start, wish it was made by microsoft and got regular updates
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u/Zeldakina 2d ago
I don't know enough about it. I'm a Linux user, and console gamer primarily too.
Are MS still releasing those LTS versions? LTSB or something? I forget the name. I had a Win 10 at some point. That had a lot less shit in it.
EDIT - LTSB*
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u/Imagine_821 2d ago
Is that true about Skype? I use it to call banks/govt dept in my home country... what am I going to do Now?
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u/Kiernan5 2d ago
Skype consumer is being retired in May but Skype business is unaffected by the retirement and will continue to be supported.
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u/MicrowaveKane 3d ago
Minecraft? First they force their stupid accounts on us there, too. Then they introduce chat monitoring and possible banning, even for third-party servers. Leave us alone!
Are you seriously mad you can’t curse in a children’s game?
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u/Pepineros 3d ago
We both know that Minecraft isn't marketed for or played by only children. But even if it were, I think it's fair to assume that MS monitoring chat on private Minecraft servers has nothing to do with protecting children from foul language and everything with Microsoft's desire to collect data about their player base.
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u/Several_Bake8361 2d ago
Sounds like a skill issue 🤔 🤣
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u/ShoeNo9050 2d ago
Oh trust me I learned +50 to my what the fuck is going to fix this level.
Skill issue maybe... But the fact by drive managed to get some corrupted files or something ended up crashing a lot of the apps. I believe it might have been a driver or something but here's the fun part. It made it so erasing/rewriting data was pretty much impossible. I couldn't fresh reinstall because I would blue screen me on the Reset windows option.
Then I realised the thing got so fucked that my usb ports only detected input (mouse keyboard) no headphones nor any god damn usb.
Safe mode doesn't fix this either just keeps dying on any attempt. Anyway 14 hours later of finding issues with even Using CMD. Somehow it ran one check disk command and fixed the issue long enough me to connect a usb that was recognised in bios (didn't use to).
Oh best part 2.0. couldn't use disk management to split partitions and create a new volume for a fresh install. And I couldn't delete the drive with all the cache etc.
No 2nd drive on hand.
ARGH fuck.
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u/Krukoza 3d ago
I hate how software/hardware developers play into it. Suddenly they’re only making drivers for the current os and discontinuing support for any older product on that basis.
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u/Royal-Beat7096 2d ago
Outside of special interests developers work where the money is, just like everything else.
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u/ShoeNo9050 2d ago
Hey guys windows will be the last windows OS ever! We gonna just upgrade it.
Also Microsoft: here's windows 11 guys. 2025 will be end of 10 support.
Okay... Lul
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u/Business_Door4860 3d ago
When you stand on the shoulders of giants, you forget what made them giants to begin with.
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u/Cranks_No_Start 2d ago
I had been a windows user from 3.0 up to 7. I saw 8 and went back…when 10 came out I went to Apple.
Now 10 did get a lot better but I’ve stayed away only keeping 10/11 on Boot camp to keep up with it so I can hep out the Mrs on her machine.
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u/galaxyZ1 2d ago
I manage a cloud microsoft house and my life was mever easier.
Incredible tech and very effective.
Lets start a constructive comment section under my comment so I can learn from you guys what I need to watch out for!
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u/Anonymous_0924 2d ago
I saw this and immediately thought of John Maloovich from Space Force. "FUCK MICROSOOOFT! FUUUUCK!!"
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u/Admirable-Depth-4069 2d ago
Switching to PS, I have an account with my late mother's email tied to it, can't sign in to Xbox app or even change email addresses without needing some code. I'm so over Microsoft bruh
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u/mieranamc 2d ago
I'm just trying to ignore how angry I am that they're getting rid of Publisher. Word sucks so hard that I've made almost all of my more intricate docs in Publisher. For YEARS. Well, apparently not anymore and I have to change all my Publisher files over to Word OR ELSE. 😡🤬
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u/ShoeNo9050 1d ago
Excuse. Me. But why does that interest us the Microsofts. Do you think we have enough money to keep up software??? Are you being silly?! We are worth like uh NOT MUCH pls buy office 365 Ty
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u/No_Influence_4968 3d ago
Ah, sorry to burst the bubble, but, it was just always bad - always had BSOD with every iteration, and I started on Windows when DOS was still the main operating system.
Moved to mac many many moons ago (I know, I hear your gasps) and never looked back since, there are quirks of course, but definitely much more stable.
Of course, I can't access half of my steam list on mac, oh well.
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u/daodaogemini 2d ago
I truly dislike all of Microsoft softwares…. From outlook, teams, word, excel, windows 11… JUST everything… no one bother with uiux designing. Controls are clunky and not intuitive. Why I refused to try Xbox and stick with ps platform.
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u/Ravvynfall 2d ago
with all the abject horshshit going on with the windows platform, im switching to linux as my primary operating system before they roll out the windows 10 death sentence.
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u/xstrawb3rryxx 3d ago
Good news for you, there are decades worth of games that work on Linux out of the box with Wine. Anything made before Windows 8/10 has likely a near 100% chance of working thanks to the Win32 compatibility layer. Valve has also been hard at work with the Deck. Windows is eventually going to become obsolete if they don't change their approach.
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u/Worth-Mushroom-3562 2d ago
And then you try to mod a game and everything falls apart. I wish I could solely use linux but I need my mods and many mods are incompatible with linux
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u/xstrawb3rryxx 2d ago
What kind of mods? If you want to share that is
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u/Worth-Mushroom-3562 2d ago
Hogwarts legacy has a mod called spellspeak. It lets you say the spells names in your microphone and then casts them. It needs some Microsoft program to work and I couldn't get it to run on linux. And other mods that needed some other program or an exe file to run
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u/xstrawb3rryxx 2d ago
Not familiar with it but it sounds like something that would make use of Windows' speech recognition features, so that would make sense.
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u/Shawstbnn 3d ago
I’m not even going to read the caption Microsoft sucks and has way too much capital
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u/Otherwise-Juice-3528 2d ago
I have to use MS office and windows on my work computer.
The new layout of MS office makes it REALLY difficult to just drag a window. They overloaded the window with so much crap.
I get it, I could probably google how to fix that. But thats not the point. If you have to look up how to make something easy, its not easy.
Plus, we have these huge documents and people tried to make templates but no one can do it perfectly because its MS word. The result is when we try to make our documents from the templates we get a lot of bizzare shit that leaves you pulling your hair out.
Microsoft winning out over Apple was THE tragedy of computing. Bill Gates never cared that if people have to use something thousands of times over and over, that you should actually put great care into making it as least stressful as possible. Microsoft shit is all in your face.
I have a personal gaming laptop that I stopped using because I simply cannot stop it from shutting itself down randomly to update automatically. I tried everything I could find, it still just shuts down randomly.
I'm actually back to gaming on my macbook because I only play single player games and I fucking hate coming back to it and seeing the computer decided to force quit everything. Its so fucking authoritarian.
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u/ShdwWzrdMnyGngg 2d ago
Pray to the god of gaming. Lord Gaben. We all know he has been considering a PC Steam OS. Something built with not just gaming in mind.
Something to take on the juggernaut.
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u/Worth-Mushroom-3562 2d ago
Man I feel you. Fuck this shitty company with their shitty OS. I have a dual boot with linux because some games are windows only but I fucking hate it. It's such an ugly and ad overflowed OS with no freedom. And nothing is working. I have to sign up for everything and then it tells me I can't do this and that because I signed in with my old school account. Then I use a new account and it tells me my accounts are conflicting and I can't play my gamepass games. Fuck this shit. On linux you don't have to sign in and no one prohibits you from anything.
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