mccI just this second drew the line in my head from "Microsoft is one of the companies who is convinced ChatGPT is a good thing and is telling its shareholders it's going to try to shove this brand of 'AI' into everything it can" and "Microsoft owns my phone keyboard, since they bought SwiftKey" and, uh… shit, maybe I should audition AnySoftKeyboard sooner rather than later
At almost the exact same time they rolled out this update, Microsoft deleted the public support forums. The public uservoice/feedback/feature request thing. They appear to have just removed it completely from the support site and old links to it 404. What an interesting coincidence.
Kevin Karhan 
@kkarhan Please stop replying to my posts in weird and aggressive ways like this.
@mcc sorry if I'm sarcastic...
Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)I use Windows because of work. Can't choose.
I use Android because some apps I need to use only have Android (or iOS) versions. Those are for work, banking, government...
When I can choose, I use Ubuntu.
Seriously, did you need for anybody to explain this to you? If you are lucky enough to use free software only, please don't rub it in for the rest of us.
And if she wants/wanted to use propietary software, she has the right to do so. If you want to help, do it recommending GAFA free alternatives.
I'm all in for advocating free software. But it must be done gently. Nobody is going to change tools because something is shouting.
Well, I do not only recommend alternatives all the time, I do use them.
Personally, I can't work with Windows!
I wasted 15 years of my life trying to make to work and the only regret I have is not comitting myself swotch 5 years earlier.
Personally, if a service isn't accessible outside of bad apps, then I don't use it.
Apparently for most the situation isn't painful enough to warrant actual changes in behaviour and tech stacks...
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110209908638496946
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] ...but the core problem is that people refuse to take consequences. I'm still baffled that despite the evidenced #Govware, Neither Microsoft nor it's Software and Services are banned for "illegal espionage" in Germany nor the EU...
Michael Roberts@kkarhan Because some of us don't have a choice?
I'm a technical translator. I *cannot* do my job, I mean 100% cannot, without Windows, because the entire industry runs on Windows.
So I run Win7 in a VirtualBox on my Ubuntu machine. And I run a 2017 Microsoft Word for document access. But that's the absolute bottom limit of exposure, or I don't *have* a business.
@vivtek That's very sad to hear...
At least you keep your stuff somewhat airgapped.
That being said, #LibreOffice does #MicrosoftOffice files pretty good.
@kkarhan Believe me - not well enough. Lots and lots of fiddly formatting. I've tried.
And the EMA (European Medicines Agency) *requires* Word to be used for redline documents - those used for tracked changes.
@vivtek How's that even legal?
This should be a direct violation of directive 2014/24/EU which bans the specific preference of brand names in specification.
https://youtu.be/duaYLW7LQvg?t=835
After all, we ain't talking about reasonable requirements like contrast ratios, colours, paper sizes, font sizes, margins and legibility requirements...
The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony (Full Documentary, 2018)
@kkarhan I hear you, brother, but I'm not a European lawyer, so I can't tell you.
From a practical standpoint, they have to be *very* careful about even minor content changes in approved texts of things like package leaflets and clinical trial protocols, and I suspect they just don't have the wherewithal to push a whole content standardization effort through (though it would certainly improve a lot of the process).