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My problem with Microsoft products

If you follow my blog for a while, you know I hate Microsoft. That’s a fact. But in this post, I will do a different take – a look at their products instead of the practices.

So, recently I had the experience of having to use Microsoft for business. This means… well, honestly, I don’t know what that means – and that is part of the problem. Am I using Office 365? No, it doesn’t seem so. So is it a Microsoft account? Again, no – logging in to it says that my account doesn’t exist. Is it Hotmail? No. Is it Outlook? Well, kinda – I do use outlook on this account, but if I go to outlook.com and try to login, it redirects me to login.live.com. So, my business account is a Microsoft Live account, right?

Well, no. Of course, not.
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By Maurício Szabo, ago

Killing Atom

So, Microsoft blogger decided to post about “sunsetting Atom”.

Honestly it’s an amazing euphemism for “for killing Atom” so I’m not going to bother to sweet-coat anything: in fact this post will probably have some harsh words, so if you like Microsoft (for some reason) I advise you to stop reading…

Anyway: Microsoft is a shitty piece of crap company. They committed so many crimes and the reason why they didn’t answer for most of these is because they bought the lawyers that were accusing them. When they they posted that they are going to Sunset Atom, it sounded like an inevitable thing – Atom was stalled, so they’re going to archive the repositories and if someone wants to keep using this just fork it and keep developing the editor.

But the truth is – not even this is possible. And we’re going to find out why in a moment, but first a little bit of story:

Even though Microsoft told everybody that they were going to keep developing the editor, it is strange that years later they decided to just give up on the idea. But this decision was not rushed in any way – they were planning to do that for a long time!
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By Maurício Szabo, ago