That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    11·
    12 days ago

    Is there a Microsoft product that isn’t?

    To be fair, Teams is pretty bad even for MS. I’ve never seen something do so relatively little and still perform so poorly. When I switched jobs and got to use Slack it was like a great fog being lifted off of my being.

      • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        VS Code is OK if you can’t afford the JetBrains ultimate subscription. I never want to see a VS Code launch configuration again.

          • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            12 days ago

            Ehh, it’s ok in the case of JetBrains - if your subscription lapses your license converts to a ‘perpetual fallback license’ so can just continue using the version you installed when the subscription was originally purchased.

            I’m using a 4 year old version of PhpStorm with no issues and no subscription. My PyCharm sub ended 6 months ago and I’m staying on the 2023 version of PyCharm because the latest version comes with lots of AI which makes my CPU fans scream continuously.

      • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        01·
        12 days ago

        Ah yes, you’re right.

        I guess a better qualifier might be: closed-source Microsoft products tend overwhelmingly to suck.

    • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      12 days ago

      Excel, Active Directory, and to a somewhat lesser degree MSSQL.

          • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            01·
            12 days ago

            It’s an awful mix of half-assed approaches to things. Awkward syntax on everything and very poor at recognizing what types of data it is handling.

            Open a CSV in a fresh Excel install. It will almost certainly mistake something for a date if the CSV is sufficiently large (unless the user is exceedingly explicit at changing settings for that particular CSV). It will reformat that data as a date, and as an added bonus, since Autosave is on by default, it’ll save that reformatted data back into your CSV. Yes, settings can be changed to avoid these things. But why isn’t it just designed better so as to avoid it altogether?

            If that was just a natural side effect of spreadsheet apps, I could understand it. But LibreOffice Calc is a million times better at recognizing what types of data it is handling, so it seems to just be Excel’s shittiness.

            The fact that it also hasn’t really changed beyond aesthetics since 2004 is just… wild.