Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document::Preparations for this huge cloud software deal mark a significant shift in the relationship between the two technology giants.

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    1 year ago

    RIP productivity for all those Amazon employees. My company recently made the switch and it has been rough as this trash doesn’t even work half the time. We’ve been using all the same standalone products for decades without issue but now after the switch to 365, I regularly can’t check email or opening a fucking PowerPoint. Also the wonderful OneDrive loves to duplicate every fucking shortcut on my desktop until it’s filled with 17 copies of each one along with filling the C:\ drive on every shared PC to 99% capacity.

    I swear to god the people in charge of making these decisions have no concept of how any of this stuff works or what benefit (if any) it’ll bring to their employees. They seem to believe every sales pitch about some off-the-shelf solution revolutionizing their workflows and can’t wait to fork over money that would be much better spent elsewhere like on the materials/equipment we actually use every single day to perform our jobs but is in short supply or in a terrible state of disrepair because “there’s no money in the budget for that.”

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t had any issues with 365. Sounds like your shit is fucked.

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      It’s because Microsoft has never fully rebuilt its coding. Everything is still patched on top of software from the early 80s. The amount of layers stacked on top is honestly crazy. It’s like a Jenga tower.

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      1 year ago

      If you have duplicate shortcuts you probably have the same OneDrive account on multiple computers. Put them on your public desktop in stead of your own OneDrive backed up desktop.