Nah, more like they call you a POS for not buying into the latest and greatest corporate need to sell you the newest hardware at top dollar - I think the last time I saw a tablet for sale it was about $1100 or something stupid like that.
Where are you shopping? Samsung has several great tablets available in a wide range of prices. The S series has the S6 lite, a great tablet with stylus, for $350. There are cheaper tablets without the stylus for cheaper.
Cheap tablets and phones legitimately suck. At this point $350-400 is the new $250.
That being said, I live in Australia - $1100 was just my estimated conversion - I think the full price of it was A$1300. It was at a JB Hi-Fi that I saw, I think the cheapest one I saw was A$600.
Even the PCMR community understands there are times a computer is overkill. You gonna lug your desktop around in your pocket for daily communication? Set up your laptop on a TV tray in from of your recliner? No, there are literal devices meant for both those situations.
“This change is designed to create an easier way for Outlook and Microsoft Teams users to reduce task switching across windows and tabs to help stay focused,” says Katy Asher, senior director of communications at Microsoft, in a statement to The Verge. “By opening browser links in Microsoft Edge, the original message in Outlook or Teams can also be viewed alongside web content to easily access, read and respond to the message, using the matching authenticated profile. Customers have the option to disable this feature in settings.”
I don’t know if this is a neurodivergent thing but I 500% could never see myself in a position I could say something I knew to be such BS and put my name to it.
They’d do better finally fixing teams. We’re talking years after release, and there’s still no option to change my status behaviour. It forces DnD when I get called, it puts me afk after only 5min, …
Their software does not fundamentally work very well. So even if this bs would be talking about an actual feature, that’s some stone age project management right there.
My job involves a fair amount of paperwork (I know, I know, what year is this?) and the fact that Teams marks me as inactive when my hands are off the mouse for a couple of minutes borderline offends me.
This happened to me this morning. And because the link was from a work email but I was logged in on my personal account, Edge wanted me to sign in to view it, requiring time-wasted on a 2FA process for no good reason whatsoever (obv I just closed Edge and copied the link over to Firefox).
The loss of productivity is large regardless of which method you choose to view the link. May this be the beginning of the end for Microsoft. I am fuming.
It’s like it’s thier white whale. The sole reason the entire company exists. Every department. Every acquisition. Every decision they’ve ever made as a whole is to eventually get you to use thier web browser.
Bill gates makes the call every Tuesday that everyone at Microsoft fears: IS IT COMPLETED? GET IT DONE.
Reminds me of Google trying to force everyone with any kind of Google account to use Google+. If you had an account on YouTube, it’d convert that to a Google account, automatically create a Google+ account for it, and start posting your activities to it by itself. I know a ton of people who had active Google+ accounts they didn’t even know about.
I’m fine with short videos, but why do they all need that terrible ui with no seek bar and fewer features than proper videos? I really hate how they don’t have the previously watched ui on them. It makes keeping up with a creator impossible.
Sorry you had such a wild experience. I had to comment though because the “from” address looked familiar… Steam Deck, perhaps? 😄 I wanna say mine took 6-7 days to get to me. Well worth the wait though! Really hope everything turns out okay and you get it sooner than later.
I switched to thunderbird a little while back when they started adding advertisements that look like actual email into my paid for windows application. Nope.
I work for a break/fix shop supporting users in many different environments and I say I have never seen ads disguised as emails in Outlook. I see a lot of other very frustrating things from them but never that.
This is the web owa version, but it looks similar in the windows client as well. I don't have an example from my own inbox because I uninstalled outlook, but this is the same thing.
mildlyinfuriating
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