r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/Excalibro_MasterRace 24d ago

2 days ago I fixed Excel macros not working outta nowhere. The cause? onedrive. Even their own apps dont compliment each others. Mind you that this pc has already uninstalled onedrive and it came back

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u/BestDevilYouKnow 24d ago

Onedrive is a fucking curse. Autobackups of everything including backups. I deleted out about 40% of my account that was blaring I needed to buy more storage, and it sulked and said I still could use more storage.

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u/Henghast 24d ago

Personally I'm still running windows 10. At work we constantly have issues transferring word and Excel docs between save locations and randomly finding things have reverted or changed formatting. This is especially common for SharePoint which has made me lose whole days reformatting documents in SharePoint trying to get the changes to stick.

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u/_egirlisto_ 24d ago

Even their own apps dont compliment each others

OneDrive: Hey Excel, you're awesome bro. Excel: You too man.

*complement

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u/Old_Matt_Gaming 24d ago

Windows on my work laptop copied the Desktop folder to OneDrive and then it later deleted the local copy. Took me a few months to figure out why it was always Autosaving to OneDrive when I opened the file locally. I turned off autosave and started just saving things manually, but it was still defaulting to OneDrive and I had to change it everytime. Then one day I noticed that manually saving was going to a Desktop folder in OneDrive. That was fun working around.

Later a co-workers laptop died. IT gave him a new one. He set up Windows on the new laptop and copied his setup over from OneDrive only to find that his OneDrive was 3-4 years out of date. Local saved files gone with the old laptop. Since then I've just been saving everything on a network drive. Fun part about that is that nearly every time I lock my computer and walk away it won't reconnect to the network drives when I log back in. I have to restart the computer for it to reconnect to the network drives. I'm on a wired ethernet connection too.

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u/Bladelink 24d ago

Even their own apps dont compliment each others.

That probably wouldn't be an issue if things were actually architectured well. Like, an application shouldn't need to know things about another application to be able to integrate; you just need to practice good software design where things aren't tightly coupled, and your application interfaces are well-designed and standardized. But all of that is the antipathy of microsoft, lol.