I Hate You Microsoft
A university user expressed frustration after Microsoft blocked their institutional account from editing PowerPoint files on a Mac. The author criticized the company for enforcing Windows-only restrictions and embedding unethical business practices within contracts. The post concludes with a call to action for users to abandon Windows and proprietary document formats in favor of open alternatives.
- ▪The user's institutional account was denied editing permissions for PowerPoint on a Mac by Microsoft.
- ▪The author claims the university pays hundreds of thousands of euros for Microsoft services.
- ▪The post criticizes Windows for including ads, high resource consumption, and privacy concerns like Windows Recall.
- ▪The author urges readers to stop using Windows and proprietary document formats to avoid vendor lock-in.
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| Original publisher | Henriquenunez |
| Canonical URL | https://henriquenunez.eu/posts/you_did_it_again_ms/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:41:48 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T21:53:44.965Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-17T21:53:44.965Z |
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I hate you MicrosoftSeptember 17, 2026The rare moment when I need to open a powerpoint document is here. As usual, I have my institutional account logged into their “services”, because my university pays microslop something in the ballpark of hundreds of thousands of euros in contracts with this large software provider.The first thing this nice software greets me with is: LIKE REALLY? Like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK REALLY?“Your account does not allow 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 reality this is unethical, buried money making schemes buried into the fine lines of some obscure contract that also steers our institution into using windows machines.
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