Oh, Microsoft, you silly thing...

Jul 06, 2016 12:17

I would be exasperated by this one, if I didn't expect this kind of idiocy by now ( Read more... )

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jducoeur July 6 2016, 19:58:51 UTC
In a non-Microsoft email reader, anyway...

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jducoeur July 6 2016, 20:22:54 UTC
Nonsense! It isn't written in .NET! Of *course* it's a corner case...

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drwex July 6 2016, 21:05:03 UTC
Interesting. I also did the upgrade (because free was going away) and I never got such a mail. I just checked my spam folder (which is FULL of Arisia spam) and it's not there either.

My upgrade experience was sort of Twilight Zone, with several minutes of looking at screens of one text item while the background slowly pulsed. Creepy as fsck

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jducoeur July 6 2016, 21:43:36 UTC
Yeah, that was the bit that left me convinced that my computer had been bricked. I'm not sure *what* the hell MS was thinking with that -- it felt like nothing so much as ransomware...

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