• XenGi
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    6 months ago

    I don’t get why people still use Microsoft services. How many data privacy scandals do we need, so they understand? Or do they still not care?

    • @mriormro
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      226 months ago

      Because they’re forced to? They own a large slice of enterprise.

      • XenGi
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        46 months ago

        In taking about personal email. I also use outlook at work because I’m forced to, but I would never let these bastards touch my private Mails.

    • @PlutoniumAcid
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      136 months ago

      Because my line of work means I working corporations, and they ALWAYS run everything on the big names, Microsoft and Oracle.

      At home, I have choice. At work, I must swallow.

      • XenGi
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        36 months ago

        Yeah companies that choose otherwise are rare. But they do exist.

        • @sheogorath
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          26 months ago

          If you’re working with clients that requires you to have security certifications it can be a real pain in the ass to certify your setup for everything vs just using the 365 stack.

          • XenGi
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            16 months ago

            True. Hate it when people want the cert instead of actual security. But I know how the world ticks. Corporate usually doesn’t give you a choice.

      • @WhyYesZoidberg
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        16 months ago

        And at work I don’t really care. It’s not my data they are “looking” at. It’s my employers.

        I guess they won’t lose any corporate customers over this. The pure shit that it outlooks hasn’t scared anyone away yet.

        I tried to delete ~7k emails today. I had to kill the process since it stopped responding. Wtf?

    • @Evotech
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      136 months ago

      It’s insanely cheap for what you get

      Business wise it’s a no brainer

      • XenGi
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        26 months ago

        It’s honestly pretty expensive compared to the alternatives. If you compare a business setup with windows plus office etc plus the support fee you can get all of that for free plus a much lower support fee from a variety of independent companies with Linux and libreoffice. The typical office worker really doesn’t need the few corner cases where MS office maybe has an advantage. Honestly for a business I would even go with Google tools. Same data privacy issues, but at least the product works great. MS office in the cloud is hot garbage.

        • @Deftdrummer
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          96 months ago

          Well you got 15 words or so in before mentioning Linux.

          • XenGi
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            46 months ago

            What else would I mention? Some doesn’t have an office suite and figure is the only other competitor.

        • @Evotech
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          76 months ago

          imnate compatibility with other organisations is a huge selling point.

          For companies at a certain scale / within a certain field I don’t think it’s even up for discussion.

    • @Something_Complex
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      36 months ago

      Even with search engines you can basically choose the Google index, the Microsoft index or the Amazon index

      • XenGi
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        -16 months ago

        Yeah but at least Google offers a good search engine while sniffing all your data. Microsoft products are usually hot garbage, sniff your data and then loose it. Also what is the Amazon index?

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      I have a government job (shocking to me still) and everything is on Exchange and 365. I don’t know why, other than “nobody ever got fired for recommending IBM.”