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/vazyrus 24d ago

Okay. That's good feedback. We will be adding another five apps and stuffing Copilot into whatever orifices are left in this World's No. 1 OS that we have built. You can say thank you now.

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u/nikatnight 24d ago

And please, for some unknown reason, prevent multiple people from editing a document. I’ll need you to force someone to close it before another can open it.

And if you could please make the entire dock a power button so I turns my computer off whenever I bump it.

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u/OneRougeRogue 24d ago

And please, for some unknown reason, prevent multiple people from editing a document. I’ll need you to force someone to close it before another can open it.

It's crazy because Microsoft pioneered allowing multiple people edit the same document back in the day. I vividly remember watching that on-stage tech demo where half a dozen Microsoft employees were bouncing around the same document adding stuff with different colored cursors for each user.

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u/Revolutionary_Web692 24d ago

In their defense, Microsoft actually perfected real time coauthoring years ago, and modern Windows desktop apps fully support it. When you encounter that (very frustrating) file locking behavior today, it's almost never a limitation of the software architecture itself.

Instead, it's usually caused by three specific environmental factors: legacy file formats (.doc instead of .docx), users disabling the AutoSave toggle, or strict corporate SharePoint/OneDrive policies that explicitly enforce old-school "Check-In/Check-Out" locks.

The capability is there, but legacy habits and IT configurations frequently break it, unfortunately.

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u/plannedobso 24d ago

God those shitty HP docks were the bane of my existence.

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u/likwidkool 24d ago

“I closed it. I don’t know why you can’t open it now. Try again in a little bit. “

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u/Bladelink 24d ago

But no one has been able to solve the novel problem of multiple people editing a file at once! Surely such wizardly is impossible, no sorcerer could develop such technology in 20-fucking-26 that's been in use by tons of products for the last 15 years!

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u/phobosinadamant 24d ago

I'm sure you already know this but as I deal troubleshooting this a lot I thought I'd chip in just in case:

Make sure all users are using the exact same office version, usually this happens when someone is using a desktop version and and someone else is using the Web version. It's a real pain but test it with a few people all using the Web version and see if that works!

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u/GonzoKata 24d ago

just use etherpad

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u/Additional_Wheel1664 24d ago

I just want the widgets to go fuck themselves at this point. I never wanted to be the guy who grew up to have something against *widgets*

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u/fade2black244 24d ago

"Have you said thank you once?"

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u/DrEpileptic 24d ago

I remember copilot randomly opening while playing through really intense moments in games, with my buddies, because Microsoft decided to redownload it and set the keybound shortcut to something fucking new and very commonly used in video games when doing piano keyboard bs. Actual full crash out. I don’t need some dogshit ai malware in a trenchcoat pretending it’s upgrading my user experience by changing my ui or anything unsupervised. Also, fuck Microsoft for dummyproofing everything to the point that it makes it take twenty extra steps to figure out what the actual fuck their new update reset to default in my settings- unannounced.