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mellowtigger) wrote2022-11-01 10:05 am
mellowtigger) wrote2022-11-01 10:05 am
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I cancelled my Microsoft 365 subscription
Microsoft isn't performing well.
Besides the Outlook.com email delivery troubles I had last year, the website is also unusually slow in a web browser. I open it up and see emails okay, but I can't interact with them sometimes for a whole minute. It just sits there. I have no idea what's loading in my browser or processing in background on the server, but it's unusable for a while. Painful.
I like Microsoft Teams, but I can't use the application on Linux as an individual. Apparently it's limited to use only with business/corporate accounts. I even subscribed to the largest M365 Family edition, thinking it would finally unlock for me so I could easily do a scheduled job interview, but it doesn't. I can answer Teams calls, but I have to use the Chrome browser. Painful.
So I cancelled my subscription after only 2 months or so, since it wasn't actually helping me in any way. There's no programming reason for tech to be so troublesome. The problem is that we've collectively chosen to prioritize the wrong goals. Corporatism/capitalism doesn't want to interoperate freely.
And don't get me started on Google (maker of Android, a kind of Linux) refusing to offer Google Drive on Linux.
Bring on the Star Trek utopia, please. I'm ready.
Besides the Outlook.com email delivery troubles I had last year, the website is also unusually slow in a web browser. I open it up and see emails okay, but I can't interact with them sometimes for a whole minute. It just sits there. I have no idea what's loading in my browser or processing in background on the server, but it's unusable for a while. Painful.
I like Microsoft Teams, but I can't use the application on Linux as an individual. Apparently it's limited to use only with business/corporate accounts. I even subscribed to the largest M365 Family edition, thinking it would finally unlock for me so I could easily do a scheduled job interview, but it doesn't. I can answer Teams calls, but I have to use the Chrome browser. Painful.
So I cancelled my subscription after only 2 months or so, since it wasn't actually helping me in any way. There's no programming reason for tech to be so troublesome. The problem is that we've collectively chosen to prioritize the wrong goals. Corporatism/capitalism doesn't want to interoperate freely.
And don't get me started on Google (maker of Android, a kind of Linux) refusing to offer Google Drive on Linux.
Bring on the Star Trek utopia, please. I'm ready.