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[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I am really thinking of switching to Microsoft for all my cloud needs, including email, photos and cloud storage and online office webapps.

I can't trust that company no more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Dang.

But most of these I can understand why they cancelled them.

Google doesn't make sense. They canned some big projects with a large user base.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just, be prepared for things to randomly not work a few times a day.

As a developer, interacting with their APIs can be quite painful.... as, things are frequently moving around, or temporarily unavailable.

[–] CaptPretentious 6 points 11 months ago

The level of truth this is hurts me to my core.

[–] joel_feila 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah surely. But Microsoft really stands by their product. Especially since it's well integrated with Office, their most important software. Yeah that's right, even more than Windows itself.

[–] joel_feila 5 points 11 months ago

Man I stop using office back in 2000.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

After that Ms master key disaster, that's a bold strategy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's like switching from cholera to plague.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh I know all about Foss. I was a Foss evangelist in university.

But some things you can't quite replace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Curious what that would be... I use neither Google nor Microsoft for personal use and I have an msdn, lol.

[–] qaz 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've personally switched to Nextcloud and I'm quite happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You could try Proton, but I am not aware if they are offering any online office web apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You could use proton cloud storage to do 90% of the same thing you just would have to have local editors installed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't think so, no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's only a matter of time before you the same regarding microsoft. Their services always get worse as time progresses.