BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft

Subject: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 24 Aug 17 - 09:51 AM

Just wasted nearly an hour unsharing a file due to Microsoft deciding that everyone does sharing via cloud drives. Didn't help me much as the file was on a drive on the clients server, which I have captured as a virtual drive on my laptop.

So, in doing this Microsoft then, without warning removed the Sharing icon from the Review Tab. After much searching on google,and finding nothing to help, I took a punt at customising the ribbon, and found the sharing command - now called Share Workbook legacy.

When are Microsoft going to realise that the whole world is not going to change the way it works every time they do an upgrade, and why can't they make information easy to find on google to restore 'old' features. It didn't help that the ribbon customisation default is popular which doesn't include the sharing command.

Subject: RE: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: Helen
Date: 24 Aug 17 - 03:51 PM

We share your pain, SBP-Cooperator.

And why is it that the only way to figure out the complexities of Microsoft is to Google it to discover the workaround tricks that other disgruntled users have had to create or discover? It used to be in the olden days that it was all in the Help menu. (I must be getting old. I remember, back in the day, when Microsoft was relatively user friendly. Those were the days, eh?)

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 07:22 AM

Can't say I remember Microsoft being user friendly.
I do remember that just typing commands under DOS was sometimes quicker and easier than all the graphic twaddle.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 11:49 AM

Microsoft and Adobe both are pushing really hard to get everyone to subscribe and keep everything on the Cloud. It's much easier to hold your work hostage that way.

Subject: RE: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: EBarnacle
Date: 28 Aug 17 - 08:17 PM

It is still possible to install some older versions of Microsoft Office that will not default to Cloud storage. Windows 10 doesn't want you do it but you can. They'd rather you paid for a subscription.

Subject: RE: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Aug 17 - 10:08 PM

In File/options, you can check a box which makes your computer the default location for saving files. Until this thread, I had put up with being first directed to the Cloud. Now I've gotten rid of that inconvenience.
Thanks for the inspiration.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Aug 17 - 05:44 AM

Even Firefox is locking you in to the internet.

Now when I open FF it checks for things I don't want to check for. Like if there are updates (it still checks despite settings!) and what I have been looking at. The problemo is that on a BT (notso) Hotspot it is far more likely to not be so hot. And on regular BT connections too. So FF sits there saying it is not responding.

My rouse is to disconnect before loading and sweet as a nut it comes good in seconds. My "homepage" is not on the web, it is on my SSD. It is my version of "favourites".

And still FF checks to see if you are connected and suggests logging-in - when I am testing websites locally - a nice feature that ignores minority usage. Yet they provide de-bugging features!

One size does not fit all..................

Subject: RE: BS: Rassin cassin wassin dassin Microsoft
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 08 Nov 17 - 11:08 AM

Another two hours of my life (and ?70 of my time) wasted by Microsoft's incompetence. Got booted off a client's network so couldn't access their server. The cause of the problem - someone accidentally turned the wireless router in another room off at the mains. Why the **** couldn't windows diagnostics told me that. They make enough ****ing money, and they are incapable of solving a simple problem.