I Hate You Microsoft

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I Hate You Microsoft

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The rare instant whenever I need to open a powerpoint document is here. As usual, I have my organizational document logged into their “services”, since my university pays microslop item in the ballpark of hundreds of thousands of euros in contracts alongside this ample application provider.

The archetypal item this nice application greets me alongside is:

Pasted-image-20260917135848-edit.png LIKE REALLY? Like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK REALLY?

“Your document does not authorize editing on a mac,” so fuck you? Like go get a fucking windows machine, or that’s it for you?

This is disrespectful at best. In actuality this is unethical, buried prosperity making schemes buried into the fine lines of several obscure agreement that additionally steers our institution into using windows machines. Again the windows machines which you pay the licence for and motionless are “greeted” alongside ads in the apps, a calculator app consuming hundreds of MB of RAM, bugs everywhere, and espionage. Let’s not conversation concerning copilot and windows recall. The actuality is bleak.

Please halt using windows. Please halt using proprietary document formats. We need to merge or we are in profound shit.

I cognize I am hosting this website on github pages, but I volition do improved in the future. Thank you.

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