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[-] Jramskov@feddit.dk 17 points 1 week ago

I dislike this article because it hides important facts until the last section: "I am in touch with Microsoft about OneDrive Photos, and my early findings suggest that it was an unintended rollout. An apology should be coming soon."

So, this journalist/news site shames Microsoft for doing something shitty, while doing something shitty themselves.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

After how many "unintentional mishaps, woops teehee won't do it again" can it be held against MS?

[-] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

It's weird how every time a company does something they're known for doing and it's badly received they claim it was an unintentional rollout.

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

micwosowft is just a smol bean

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

If memory serves me right. This is like the fourth unintended rollout in OneDrive history, on W11 at least. Every time our IT has to send an email to remind all staff how to disable computer wide backup and how to disable OneDrive in general. Since we don't pay for it but MS still insist it should infect everything.

Each of these unintended rollout costs us millions of dollars of people's time, since our organization has hundreds of thousands of employees all over the world.

[-] sbrodolino_21@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Literally malware

[-] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Strong disagree. Microsoft does this on the regular. They get no credit for their repeated 'we're sorry'.

Southpark: "We're sorry"

[-] Jramskov@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

You disagree with what? Do you think it is great journalism to hide that information to the very end of the article?

MS clearly did something shitty, not arguing about that.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It was not an unintended rollout, that's them lying to save whatever face they may have left.

Back when I used windows, OneNote would reinstall itself like every week. I removed it, it came back. I corrupted all of it's files, it repaired itself.

This is just the bullshit that Microsoft does.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

nah, incompetence at this level deserves shame

[-] Jramskov@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

Agreed, but not my argument.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

Doing unintended rollouts is also shameful. They're a billion dollar corporation. There's absolutely no excuse for something like that to happen. The journalist did nothing wrong to call them out.

[-] Jramskov@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

It’s very unprofessional by MS and they should be shamed for it, I’m not arguing against that. I’m only saying I think this article is bad.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

What shitty thing did the author do? Regardless of if this rollout was intentional or not, they did do it, and there's no excusing that An apology doesn't change anything.

[-] Jramskov@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago

I write that in my first sentence : "I dislike this article because it hides important facts until the last section"

You also make it sound like I'm defending MS - that confuse me quite a bit too since I'm actually stating in my comment that they did something shitty.

Clear now?

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

“I am in touch with Microsoft about OneDrive Photos, and my early findings suggest that it was an unintended rollout. An apology should be coming soon.”

That's not a particularly important fact. The important fact is that they did push this and there was nothing the users could do about it. Their apology doesn't mean anything when they keep doing this shit.

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