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This is the reason I hate google. No customer support at all. They will just provide link to forum. I will go with Microsoft anytime for business software than Google. I feel like it is company built by nerds with zero business sense. If your KPI depends on building new products, there ain't a reason to improve existing ones. Classic case of Goodhart's law.



It's not like Microsoft is pure as the driven snow, either. It's a massive corporation with all sorts of warts. Just to name a few from the past few months:

WinGet fiasco: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget...

O365 Installer forces Bing as search default: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21077280/microsoft-chrome...

Azure jacks up prices in sneaky ways: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/microsoft-screws-customer...

MS ends partner benefits: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/11/microsofts_reasons_...

Closes eBooks store, customers lose all purchased books: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367

Microsoft partners with ICE for facial recognition and other technology: https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-employees-up-in-arms-over-clou...

etc etc etc.




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