{"id":737,"date":"2016-07-17T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/?p=737"},"modified":"2016-07-17T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T21:11:04","slug":"thanks-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/thanks-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-thanks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-743\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-thanks-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"win10-thanks\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-thanks-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-thanks.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for having the default Windows 10 privacy options to allow any app that wants to pre-approval to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on my webcam and watch me<\/li>\n<li>Turn on my microphone and listen to me<\/li>\n<li>Watch and record my keystrokes<\/li>\n<li>Use my GPS to locate me<\/li>\n<li>Collect my Internet history<\/li>\n<li>Read my calendar, emails, and contacts<\/li>\n<li>Turn on my WiFi and Bluetooth radios and access networks<\/li>\n<li>Read my text messages and call logs<\/li>\n<li>Send all the above information back to Microsoft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>..and THEN give me options in <strong>literally\u00a0<\/strong>15 different screens to be able to disable these settings, which doesn&#8217;t even disable all of the spying features.<\/p>\n<p>Because that&#8217;s not creepy at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/windows-10-spying-privacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-751\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/windows-10-spying-privacy-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"windows-10-spying-privacy\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/windows-10-spying-privacy-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/windows-10-spying-privacy-700x385.jpg 700w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/windows-10-spying-privacy.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for moving in the direction of changing how we buy <strong>Office products<\/strong> from a purchase model to a subscription model, so we have to <strong>rent<\/strong> the software instead of buying it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really looking forward to giving you money every month for the rest of my life to rent software I used to buy, then having my software stop working if something happens to my &#8220;Microsoft account&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/computer-yay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-748\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/computer-yay-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"computer-yay\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/computer-yay-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/computer-yay.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for having 2 different types of <strong>Microsoft accounts<\/strong>, both of which can have any email address associated with it, including Microsoft hosted Exchange addresses.<br \/>\nThat really straightens things out and makes it easy to deal with.<br \/>\nYou took the idea that Apple had with their Apple ID&#8217;s and make it more complicated just because you could.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-ms-accounts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-ms-accounts-288x300.png\" alt=\"2-ms-accounts\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-ms-accounts-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-ms-accounts.png 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for calling 2 completely different services you offer the exact same name, &#8220;<strong>Office 365<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Your <strong>Office subscription model<\/strong> &#8220;Office 365&#8221; (which is a subscription model that allows you to rent copies of Microsoft Office that have their own independent names), and<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft&#8217;s <strong>online Exchange email hosting service<\/strong>, which doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with #1.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No, that doesn&#8217;t cause confusion at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-login.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-739 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-login-300x159.png\" alt=\"office365-login\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-login-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-login-700x370.png 700w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-login.png 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-product.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-740 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-product-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"office365-product\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-product-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/office365-product.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for calling <strong>Windows 10<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>home<\/strong>&#8221; just plain old &#8220;<strong>Windows 10<\/strong>&#8220;.<br \/>\nNow when people say they have &#8220;Windows 10&#8221;, they have no idea which edition they have (Home, Pro, Enterprise, etc).<\/p>\n<p>Because it was apparently too difficult\u00a0to call it <strong>Windows 10 Home<\/strong> to differentiate it from<strong> Windows 10 Pro <\/strong>and<strong> Windows 10 Enterprise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for making me have to associate my <strong>Office 2016<\/strong> retail purchase with a Microsoft account that I don&#8217;t want.<br \/>\nBecause buying software and entering the installation code to make it work\u00a0was too easy.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really looking forward to maintaining yet another online account just because you want to track what software I&#8217;ve purchased.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/activate-office2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-744\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/activate-office2016-250x300.png\" alt=\"activate-office2016\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/activate-office2016-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/activate-office2016.png 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft for calling the backup system within Windows 10 &#8220;<strong>Windows 7 Backup and Restore<\/strong>&#8220;.<br \/>\nBecause, it makes perfect\u00a0sense to call a program that backs up your <strong>Windows 10<\/strong> operating system <strong>Windows 7 Backup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-7-backup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-741 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-7-backup-214x300.png\" alt=\"win10-7-backup\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-7-backup-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/win10-7-backup.png 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for allowing me to sign into my computer using a Microsoft account.<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate\u00a0that I&#8217;m able to not access my own computer if my Microsoft account gets hacked or I lose my password. \u00a0We didn&#8217;t have enough choices between <strong>domain accounts<\/strong> and <strong>local accounts<\/strong> to log in with, so this third choice (which can be used in conjunction with local and domain accounts) really makes life easier for us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ms-account-login.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-742 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ms-account-login-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ms-account-login\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ms-account-login-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ms-account-login.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks Microsoft, for <strong>Windows 8<\/strong>. \u00a0Then <strong>Windows 8.1<\/strong>, which was so much better I hardly noticed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;nuff said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/google-com-au-windows-8-is-search.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-752\" src=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/google-com-au-windows-8-is-search-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"google-com-au-windows-8-is-search\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/google-com-au-windows-8-is-search-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/google-com-au-windows-8-is-search-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/google-com-au-windows-8-is-search-700x329.jpg 700w, https:\/\/redlance.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/google-com-au-windows-8-is-search.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Microsoft, for having the default Windows 10 privacy options to allow any app that wants to pre-approval to: Turn on my webcam and watch me Turn on my microphone and listen to me Watch and record my keystrokes Use my GPS to locate me Collect my Internet history Read 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