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You are correct, I am not very social.
EDIT: I am also not of the mind that just because something is common and popular doesn't mean it isn't stupid, broken and horrible.
... Working as a DB admin / analyst at MSFT through the Windows 8 release also didn't help.
3 weeks. 3 weeks where we couldn't do a goddamned bit of work because SQL manager didn't work properly and you couldn't have more than 2 panes open at once.
They really, truly thought that taking the windows out of Windows would be just fine for desktop users. We had to argue with people until they stopped lying and admitted that a Win 7 style mode did exist and was useable underneath the Win 8 interface, and they reluctantly made it easier to switch to without following 3 pages of procedures.
MSFT fucking sucks.
Its more than just 'I'm not very social', its also, 'I have a grudge against MSFT from working for them for pennies and being gaslit and lied to routinely, obviously, without shame, for years.'
Google may be getting a looksy from the DOJ for being a monopoly, and now MSFT is doing the same shit that got them antitrusted 20ish years ago, again, on steroids.
I pray that the marinara may flow, that the noodly appendage of the meatball'd one strikes down this objectively evil giant megacorp.
How did you not know about the "Windows 7 mode" in 8 by the time of release? Wasn't that sorted out in the preview builds?
We got dogfed (dogfooded?) the preview builds.
At some point, one preview was considered 'good enough' that basically everyone at MSFT was forced to switch over to it.
Backlash from MSFTs own employees who were forced to use the pre Windows 7 mode version is a huge reason why they 'sorted it out'.
EDIT: If you don't know... and maybe they don't still do this, but I seriously doubt it, MSFT does what they call dogfooding. Most new software versions are released internally to MSFT employees before it goes public, so that they can functionally beta test everything.
Usually it just causes some work loss in minor ways, but with certain widely used or critical software, it can blow up entire projects and workflows for a while.