I can confirm Microsoft IS another privacy domino.
Why do you think MS Teams is such a bloated piece of crap? You'll see that it eats up a ton of RAM on the system.
It acts as this weird mediary between all MS Office documents, PDF viewer, internet browsing, downloading, storage, etc. None of this is really necessary if you have other programs like Adobe/Sumatra. Dropbox etc.
All of this is connected to your Microsoft account, which you have to authenticate with your phone, and enter with your fingerprint.
Thats why Win10 was a free upgrade, theres all sorts of privacy issues with Microsoft. Microsoft is basically competing with Google by copying their strategy.
OMG f Microsoft Teams. My work computer has 8gb of RAM /w HDD (ie not SSD) and the profile keeps making Teams load in the Background during startup. Along with Mcafee and other work programs they used up over 90% of RAM, which makes the HDD work very hard and makes the computer very sluggish.
Example: Opening the NOTEPAD takes over 30 seconds. Notepad!
Really ought to talk to your bosses about switching to Open office, Libre office, or some other Open Source alternative... Might have to go over the IT guy's head, though, depending on how much of a Microsoft fanboy he is (I honestly can't believe such creatures exist, except that I've seen them)
Libre and Open office are basically the same software except a hell of a lot less bloated, and the use the classic menu interface that Microsoft keeps trying to break, because new and shiny is somehow better than familiar and coherent...
I had a hard drive failure a few months ago, but had backed up what I cared about prior to it. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I brought my computer to a repair place and the guy said it would be a little over $200 to put in a new solid state hard drive. I decided to do it myself (youtube is good for a lot of things :) ). I bought one for about $125. I had to re-install Windows 10, but what was weird, even though I never signed up for any kind of backup with Microsoft, some of my personal photos re-appeared when Win10 was installed! (they were in a screen-saver folder, or something like that). It was almost like Microsoft was telling me, ever so subtly, "We have everything!". The good news is, with the old hard drive, it would take about a minute for the laptop to boot up from a cold start, now it takes about 10 seconds.
I've heard people say that EVERYTHING you do, post, and probably watch, online, is recorded somewhere. (but grabbing photos from my personal computer is a whole different thing!)
I can confirm Microsoft IS another privacy domino.
Why do you think MS Teams is such a bloated piece of crap? You'll see that it eats up a ton of RAM on the system.
It acts as this weird mediary between all MS Office documents, PDF viewer, internet browsing, downloading, storage, etc. None of this is really necessary if you have other programs like Adobe/Sumatra. Dropbox etc.
All of this is connected to your Microsoft account, which you have to authenticate with your phone, and enter with your fingerprint.
Thats why Win10 was a free upgrade, theres all sorts of privacy issues with Microsoft. Microsoft is basically competing with Google by copying their strategy.
OMG f Microsoft Teams. My work computer has 8gb of RAM /w HDD (ie not SSD) and the profile keeps making Teams load in the Background during startup. Along with Mcafee and other work programs they used up over 90% of RAM, which makes the HDD work very hard and makes the computer very sluggish.
Example: Opening the NOTEPAD takes over 30 seconds. Notepad!
Sonny, back in my day 8mb of RAM was a lot.
I remember when 1mb was a big jump from 640k.
Really ought to talk to your bosses about switching to Open office, Libre office, or some other Open Source alternative... Might have to go over the IT guy's head, though, depending on how much of a Microsoft fanboy he is (I honestly can't believe such creatures exist, except that I've seen them)
Libre and Open office are basically the same software except a hell of a lot less bloated, and the use the classic menu interface that Microsoft keeps trying to break, because new and shiny is somehow better than familiar and coherent...
I use Linux, but we dont have a say in anything this company does, otherwise I would've rehauled everything years ago.
Can't hurt to ask, right? bring in your personal machine and show them how much more fluid things run. The free price tag is icing on the cake.
Worst they can do is say no, lol.
I had a hard drive failure a few months ago, but had backed up what I cared about prior to it. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I brought my computer to a repair place and the guy said it would be a little over $200 to put in a new solid state hard drive. I decided to do it myself (youtube is good for a lot of things :) ). I bought one for about $125. I had to re-install Windows 10, but what was weird, even though I never signed up for any kind of backup with Microsoft, some of my personal photos re-appeared when Win10 was installed! (they were in a screen-saver folder, or something like that). It was almost like Microsoft was telling me, ever so subtly, "We have everything!". The good news is, with the old hard drive, it would take about a minute for the laptop to boot up from a cold start, now it takes about 10 seconds.
Sheesh! Do you write horror novels? 😳 Thats the scariest thing I've read all day! 🥶
I've heard people say that EVERYTHING you do, post, and probably watch, online, is recorded somewhere. (but grabbing photos from my personal computer is a whole different thing!)