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[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 hour ago

Reminds me of the w10->w11 upgrade in one of my former jobs.

For most of the upgrade process, there was the common Windows blue screen. In the foreground, a big fat clickable 'OK' button, and right underneath, the phrase 'Your upgrade is underway. Do NOT press OK!'

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 86 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Microsoft "stay signed in?" screen is the most useless thing ever programmed by man

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 minutes ago

What annoys me endlessly that i have to interact with the system so much to log in multiple times for various platforms:

  1. Email - fill if not on mobile - confirm
  2. Password - hope to god its prefilled - confirm
  3. MFA - enter - confirm
  4. Stay signed in - check useless dont ask again checkbox - confirm

People are saying passkeys are not a good solution, but I would take those immediately over this nonsense

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly don't understand the point of it. At every single job I have or have had, it doesn't seem to do anything and I still have to sign in multiple times a day.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

+1. I'm very confused and don't understand what it's supposed to do.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 22 points 20 hours ago

At work I see that screen at least 5 times a day.

[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 12 points 18 hours ago

I wish I could just turn it off because clearly it doesn’t respect my choice.

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Finally got motivated enough to change the lock screen from other peoples photography to my own. Spend an hour going through shots and make a folder under 'Pictures' root folder called 'Lock screen', go to the settings for lock screen and select that folder as the slideshow source. "We can't use that folder so it was removed". Hmmm. Ok, let me add it to 'Documents' instead. Same issue. Hmmm, ok.... I hate it, but let me move it under c: - ok, it accepted it, sweet. Lock the screen, not showing anything... Hmmm ok, google it. Apparently it fails silently when it needs permissions. Hmmm, Ok... workaround is to select 'Photo' mode instead of slideshow mode, lock the screen. Ok, shows the photo. Ok, now go back to slideshow mode and it should work.

Wrong place for this rant I know but windows just seems progressively shittier over the years, if that's even possible.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

windows ~~just seems~~ is progressively shittier over the years

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 54 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The design is very human. All you need to do is close all tabs where a Microsoft service is potentially running, find all the cookies used by Microsoft's domains (there are only like six of them) and delete them, then restart the browser.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"Microsoft works fine. All you need to do is..."

Why can't people try Linux again?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

So was mine.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago

And when they doesn't work, install a fresh copy of Windows on new hardware in a sperate location within another dimension.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 36 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I actually recently added the Microsoft logout page to µblocks domain filter at work, since it would every now and then trigger a logout the very first page load after I'd log in to the email there.

This has also somehow caused a bunch of other AD-connected systems to suddenly behave a lot better when it comes to session termination.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Oh wow. So you just added the /logout endpoint itself or something else?

[–] Isbjerg@feddit.dk 10 points 21 hours ago

So, how do you do that exactly?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 11 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I have now a bunch of browser profiles to keep each login separate. The joys of having one Microsoft account, linked to multiple systems, but none of them want to run in the same browser profile at the same time.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Get the container extension for Firefox. It's far superior to using multiple profiles.

[–] Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

can't, firefox is not a supported browser for my company shitty SSO

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Good god. I’m so sorry.

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 3 points 21 hours ago

the joy of not having any microsoft accounts.

although i still do have to deal with this shit every day for other people. the 'best' ones are those with only a voice number on their account for a verification, from back before they went sms-only for phone numbers.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It looks like you opened that login form, then logged out “from all devices” on another tab, and then continued the login.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, let's catalogue every way to get the OP's interaction sequence...

It also happens when you kept the login form there for too long, or when MS decided you should migrate into another version of the service you were trying to get into. Oh, it also happens when you try to change the Teams organization but it decides to change back for some reason (probably because you clicked at the wrong link).

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Or if you decided to take too long for your morning coffee break. Or if the planets enter retrograde. Or when it's the 12th millisecond past every third minute since the creation of the universe.