Oh my fucking god! Please, M$, do continue!!
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
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To be brutal Microsoft appear to understand little these days...
thanks microsoft! i just followed the account!
Streisand effect in full swing too. I'm now following @Microsoft@lea.pet :)
I don't get fediverse either. How do I follow that from a Lemmy app. The link dosnt work.
Lemmy doesn't support following people, you need a mastodon or Sharkey account for that. Check sharkey.world and mas.to
Microsoft is at this point made up entirely of technically inept people running fraudulent mechanical Turks.
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Let's save this post for the next follow friday...
They don't really understand their user base either
Microsoft is such a horrid company.
this is why niche stuff on fedi is so funny sometimes. especially when a corporate entity tried to approach it, in the most corporate way lol.
Does Microsoft understand anything? At all? They suck at making software, they suck at making operating systems, they suck at making genAI, they suck at making game consoles, they're starting to suck at owning github, what don't they suck at? What part of their business is done better than anyone else? What end user experience is better on an MS product than anywhere else? They have a shittier alternative to literally everything and nothing truly good.
I don't know if you're asking seriously, but if you are the answer is: Enterprise manageability and accountability. There's a reason why every hospital, Fortune 500 corporate campus, military base, supermarket, distribution centre, etc, etc all run Windows workstations. Why would a ruthlessley profit-driven corporation buy expensive Windows licenses when Ubuntu is free? Because when you're dealing with ten thousand workstation in 150 countries, each with own requirements for data protection, working time, employee rights, etc that not only need enforcing, but need to be audited, you can do all that with a single Windows server and a half-motivated sysadmin. And for everyone smaller than that, you still get access to those same tools for your school, office, factory, whatever on your fleet of twenty mismatched laptops from eight different vendors.
Nothing else comes close, and until it does nothing will change. They would all drop Windows in an instant if there was a sensible alternative.
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They rock at being the default. As much as I love LibreOffice MS office is probably the best office suite I've used too.
For how good and useful Excel is, it's overbalanced by how utterly fucking dog shit Word is.
Word is when you have a crap and can't seem to wipe yourself fully clean. Word is making a morning coffee and finding the milk has gone bad. If it weren't for the US deciding they'd rather invade the Netherlands than let a single Yank stand trial in the Hague, the entire executive suite of Microsoft would be up on war crimes charges because of Word.
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let them sue, parody is fair use. get that bag king
AI putting copyright troll lawyers out of jobs? Best use I’ve heard of yet.
So, here's what I would do. I would comply (you should be able to delete the local instance of that account). But I'd also reply pointing out that it's a mirror of the real account hosted at lea.pet and their real beef is with them, and should that user interact with or generate content pushed to you, the local copy would be re-created.
Keep a copy of the email you send (because it's highly likely a human doesn't monitor that mailbox) and then move on with your life. If a real person then wants to complain you can just forward the email you sent and tell them the same still applies.
It's automated and the email indicates as such.
Why comply? As far as I'm aware there's no legal obligation to do so. They think they can just ask for things and get them. Fuck them.
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What ghouls
Look ma, my instance is being threatened! Proud to be on the instance of Mastodon CEO 🥹
Ok but fr, MS please don't shut down cyberplace.social I just switched to there like a few months ago.
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