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Is this a surprise? I assumed everyone's experience of Microsoft accounts was something like this. Every single detail seems designed by someone who read Kafka

Is this a surprise? I assumed everyone's experience of Microsoft accounts was something like this. Every single detail seems designed by someone who read Kafka and took the wrong lesson out of it.

LeoPanthera 4y ago
I really hate comments like this. What exactly do you expect to achieve by saying "Well of COURSE this thing is awful. You should have known that." Just accepting every horrible thing in the world must be so sad.
- lultimouomo 4y ago
  You don't need to accept it. Just don't use Microsoft. (If your school forces you to, create a throwaway account for that, and let the principal know that you are not a happy customer)
  - b800h 4y ago
    And then your child has a Mojang account, and then you can't use Minecraft because the throwaway account is associated with your phone number, and it's tied into the Active Directory of ..... This sort of scenario. Or a million others.
    - lultimouomo 4y ago
      Having an account for your child schools is kind of a necessity. Using Minecraft is not. It seems to be a nice game and children like it; it sucks that Microsoft bought it. Still not a good enough reason to use Microsoft.
      - b800h 4y ago
        That's why my kids now play MineTest. Despite having bought them Java Minecraft before that was an issue. Shame the money was wasted. Product changed. Ought to be able to get our money back.
- alpaca128 4y ago
  You jump to questionable conclusions here. They just meant that Microsoft messing something up to this degree is not a big shock to people who already had MS related issues. Some of their designs are downright malicious (like locking the email account until you give them your phone number), more often it's amazingly bad software/UI, and sometimes they'll ruin your weekend by rolling out a Windows update without asking which wipes your partitions or throws bluescreens on boot. I decided a while ago it's not worth it for me and stopped using as much MS related stuff as possible, and I'm glad I did.

Is this a surprise? I assumed everyone's experience of Microsoft accounts was something like this. Every single detail seems designed by someone who read Kafka and took the wrong lesson out of it.

LeoPanthera 4y ago

I really hate comments like this. What exactly do you expect to achieve by saying "Well of COURSE this thing is awful. You should have known that." Just accepting every horrible thing in the world must be so sad.

lultimouomo 4y ago
You don't need to accept it. Just don't use Microsoft. (If your school forces you to, create a throwaway account for that, and let the principal know that you are not a happy customer)
- b800h 4y ago
  And then your child has a Mojang account, and then you can't use Minecraft because the throwaway account is associated with your phone number, and it's tied into the Active Directory of ..... This sort of scenario. Or a million others.
  - lultimouomo 4y ago
    Having an account for your child schools is kind of a necessity. Using Minecraft is not. It seems to be a nice game and children like it; it sucks that Microsoft bought it. Still not a good enough reason to use Microsoft.
    - b800h 4y ago
      That's why my kids now play MineTest. Despite having bought them Java Minecraft before that was an issue. Shame the money was wasted. Product changed. Ought to be able to get our money back.
alpaca128 4y ago
You jump to questionable conclusions here. They just meant that Microsoft messing something up to this degree is not a big shock to people who already had MS related issues. Some of their designs are downright malicious (like locking the email account until you give them your phone number), more often it's amazingly bad software/UI, and sometimes they'll ruin your weekend by rolling out a Windows update without asking which wipes your partitions or throws bluescreens on boot. I decided a while ago it's not worth it for me and stopped using as much MS related stuff as possible, and I'm glad I did.