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Jeez. Microsoft account management is absolutely trash. They try to do clever things, but they don't really think things through. As an example: while trying t
by chaps 5y ago
Jeez. Microsoft account management is absolutely trash. They try to do clever things, but they don't really think things through.
As an example: while trying to get excel installed on a Windows VM, running on a Linux host, I found that if your user agent shows you're running Linux, their admin panel will show you a completely different set of already-purchased applications available to install. Took somewhere between 5-10 calls to their support before I figured that out on my own.
- TedShiller 5y agoI gave up on Microsoft in the 90’s. Couldn’t be happier now outside of their ecosystem.
- iforgotpassword 5y agoWhen I bought Minecraft I was outside of their ecosystem. Now this crap gets forced down my throat. I guess I'm not doing the migration and just play offline/"cracked"
- dm319 5y agoSame here. There was talk a few years ago about Mojang open sourcing it, but clearly they went with the money. And now Microsoft are adamant to squeeze every bit of money and future custom from us.
- simion314 5y agoMaybe you failed to understand the issue, let me explain it clear: I run Linux, I bought Minecraft from Mojang but now it is owned by Microsoft. Also MS bough a lot of game development studios so many games are now owned by Microsoft.
- whimsicalism 5y agoWhy would your user agent show you're running linux in a VM?
- chaps 5y agoI was trying to figure out the account nonsense from a browser on the host machine, not the VM.