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@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzMicrosoft creates byzantine systems that are pointlessly complex. The purpose of that complexity - against all engineering best-practice - is not technical, it's entirely human: to keep legions of IT techs employed & insisting on their employers persisting with Microsoft (because most of those legions are sharp enough to know that without MS, they'd be unemployed). Most* of the rest of the world carries the cost and daily pain.
* a few of us rejected Microsoft decades ago & have no regrets.
All engineers should be appalled and offended by Microsoft's (financial) success due to their blatant defiance (for non-technical reasons) of the KISS principle (core to engineering) in all of their proprietary software. Turns out you can make more money by being shit... *if* you have monopolies to exploit and are willing to be extraordinarily unethical.
If people wonder why I point out these fundamental problems with the closed technologies most people are forced to endure (most not realising how much better it *could* be because they've never experienced anything else), it's not because I'm trying to rub people's noses in it. No. I'm hoping to foment full blown rebellion.
I'd love to see corporate unions strike until they regain personal privacy & data sovereignty & functional software & no longer have to labour under the Microsoft yoke.