ITT: horrible practices we have to deal with because Microsoft

Office formats ending with x
.ppt/.pps

You start.

>>57504779
Case-sensitivity of file system.

>>57504806
Are you retarded?

>>57504806
>implying there is case-sensitivity in a multi-cultural world

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Proprietary software.

>>57504829
I'm talking about writing systems with cases, for sure.

>>57504779
Killer apps.

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>>57504779

>>57504884
Anti-piracy activation?

>>57504786
This.
The whole "Open" XML fiasco was a killing blow at the free market of Office suites.
nothing surprising considering that Bill Gates is a socialist.

>>57504779
>safely remove flash drives

>>57504895
No, third-person indirect pronouns. Yes, product activation you illiterate faggot.

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Hardware backdoors in CPU firmware
Thanks intel

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>>57504919
Don't be silly, goy, don't you want a big goverment to look after you?

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>>57504779
The ANSI 101 Key keyboard layout popularized by IBM.

A submit button on a keyboard that was completely integrated into the OS and applications would be really useful. Instead we have to move the mouse cursor over to click like a 5 year old, or use cumbersome tabbing.

One could argue the Enter/Return key was supposed to fulfill this purpose, but the conflating of these two functions is what ruined it.

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>>57504899
Shit, I remember this.

Half the time it didn't work, on my computers at least.

>>57504904
My bad. I'm too used to not reading those things.
There was an anon a while ago asking how to get Win10 to stop addressing him as if it were human because if flamed his autism. I can see why.

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>>57504779

>>57504870
but anon. they're different characters

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>>57504938
>mentions keyboard
>doesn't point the obvious

>>57505083
I'm just using it as a AHK key.

What's with the Context Menu key? I had to click it to see what it was, since I have never used it. Is it for when your mouse breaks?

>>57505113
Given that mice came later, a pointing device like it should just be for selecting something and sending a command to it like M1 for Return, M2 for Context, Page up/down on the scroll wheel, etc. An environment should be fully controllable with just a keyboard.
That's obviously not what mice actually do as they have their own distinct hardware events but you get the analog, anything you can do with a mouse, even in a graphical 2D environment should be doable with a keyboard alone, even navigating a 2D plane with or without a cursor is possible.

>>57505013
This.

>>57504938
Like 95% of applications and webforms use enter as "submit"

>>57504938
The escape key being in the top left corner while the caps lock (little to no use) is on the home row

>>57505013
absolutely this
and to this day, I'm still surprised that there's never been a concentrated effort to replace JS (VBScript doesn't count, it didn't solve any fucking issues)

>>57505113
>What's with the Context Menu key?
I actually use it a fuckton, mostly for spellcheck. Typing along, made a mistake, don't reach for the mouse, just move back a tad and use it to bring up the spellcheck menu.
remapped caps lock to it in fact

>>57505083
although the fact that it has the Windows logo on it is awful, it really is nice to have another modifier key

>>57505401
this shit is an eternal embarrassment
Why is everything about Windows Update so bad?

>>57505377
Well I'd rather misclick Caps than Esc

>>57504829
Between all the other kinds of sensitivity there are in a multi-cultural world, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if case-(in)sensitivity was somebody's triggeR.

>>57505401
This, Windows still can't update some things without turning the whole system off

>>57505377
I use capslock for capitalizing writing, never shift.

>>57505540
That's because you're a gimp

>>57504806
0/10 try again

>>57505083
Just get a keycap without a windows logo and boom you have another modifier. It's great to have in i3.

>>57505513
Can't update most things from what I can tell, I have to reboot my Windows machine about every 2 weeks. The best part is on 10 they're cumulative updates, and they're installed automatically. So if your OS installs updates and has a reboot pending, and you delay it long enough for them to put out a second update, you have to restarts twice anyway instead of just installing the second update and restarting once.

The only way around it is hosting your own Windows server machine and using WSUS manually which is a hassle in its own right. I hate this shit.

>>57504779
Biggest shit i have with windows client based is the w10 update that normies accepted without prejudice. All the printers on my customer and company side fucked up like its dec 31 1999 all over again. Phones keep calling in about tech support for their pc while all i do was dealing with industrial barcode printers.

Drivers weren't working here and there until a restart, customer inhouse tech being dumber than a fuck like me trying to ignore my advice of just "restarting" PC.

Honestly i dont get paid dealing customer side pc issues. Fuck im in the wrong field.

>>57504779
Micropayments
Closed-source software
Scripts, scripts, ads and scripts in web browsing
Data caps
QWERTY
Diversity

>>57504779
God Damn automatic win 10 Updates. Causes me untold amounts of wasted hours.

The cloud

non-journaling file system

>defragmenting


>>57504975
>>57504899
You only have to do this if you've just written data and need the flash drive out right now. Been taking it out without ejecting on windows, linux, and mac for over 15 years with no bad effects.

Also know people who turn their computer off, yell out O SHIT, turn it back on, just to eject the flash drive. OS X is the worst because it gives you a nasty message and tries to edumacate you.

>>57505083
Windows key is amazing once you start actually using it instead of just hitting it on accident every once in a while. Don't think of it as a Win key, just think of it as another function key.

>>57505342
And the 5% that don't suck and make you hesitate when using the other 95%.

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>>57506666
>Been taking it out without ejecting on windows, linux, and mac for over 15 years with no bad effects.
Same here.

>Also know people who turn their computer off, yell out O SHIT, turn it back on, just to eject the flash drive
Haha, this is new to me.

>>57504779
forced updates

>>57508603
This

>>57505083
Covered mine with a system76 ubuntu sticker.

>>57505013
ECMAScript 6 isn't that hard, it's just that complex stuff is unreadable

>>57505513
>you have to restart your computer to finish installing updates!
>one update
>security update for adobe flash player for windows 10

>>57509454
>>security update for adobe flash player for windows 10
Using Flash in 2016?
You're kidding.

>>57509534
Not only that but it needs to restart your computer to implement the update, so it is a critical component.
Flash!
A critical component in the Operating System!

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>>57509534
t. Kantai Collection

O/X jp vs restoftheworld nonsense on playstation.

(JP being correct)

>>57509836
>implying figures as buttons aren't mistake

null
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_pointer#History

>>57504779
CR LF

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OEM

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>>57506666
Satan is become you

Fucking webcams on laptops and shit because of degenerate normies.

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>>57505319
>menu key (along with windows key) introduced in 1994
>mice came later

>>57511718
Mice did come later, you think keyboards were introduced in 1994? The practice of using a computer with just a keyboard had been in place long before the 90's.

Fans.

The move away from passively cooled hardware was a massive mistake.

As was moving away from the awesome keyboard-computer design.

>>57504779
Touch screen

>>57512265
The absolute worst.

>>57504779
IPv4

>>57504884
Anyone use the launched web browser to download and install an activator?

closed source software