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Not long ago I discovered my math skills aren't what they used to be and decided to use the system calculator. When I just started to contemplate the result, the calculator decided to talk to me:
For those few of you who can't read Polish - the calculator wants me to rate it in the Store, holding my result hostage.Well fuck you, calculator! Fuck you, Windows! Fuck you, Microsoft! Fuck you, Store! Fuck you, computer! How about I shove it into Bill Gates' ass and then rate the experience?
Bonus: Fuck you Outlook 365 for having "like" buttons next to each email!
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@NeighborhoodButcher yeah got this as well... Seriously,
wtf?!
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Yeah, I'm not signed in to a Microsoft account, so clicking the feedback button doesn't do much except ask me to sign in. Double useless!
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@NeighborhoodButcher at least it doesn't want you to share your calculations on Facebook...
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is this the fucking windows calculator?
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is this the fucking windows calculator?
Yep, well, the Windows Store version anyways. Calc.exe doesn't do this.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Unrated:
is this the fucking windows calculator?
Yep, well, the Windows Store version anyways. Calc.exe doesn't do this.
On Windows 10, calc.exe is the Windows Store version. (First time that happened, I was tempted to go and rate as low as I could. But that requires effort. Fuck that.)
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Somewhere deep within the bowels of Microsoft Application Fabrication Ward 11 is a developer weeping over the lack of respect given to the work she made available for free.
Also :gag_reflex:
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I don't see what the big deal is. Click to rate it a 5, and move on.
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I've had this as well.
I've already chosen Windows mobile, and paid my money, which is the highest rating I can give anything.
Unless the calculator app was created by an intern on their first day, nobody should be that impressed about wiring up a few buttons.
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Yep, it also keeps doing that. Even after you've rated it.
I rated it 1 star for asking me to rate it. Lots of other people had the same review funnily enough. I doubt anyone from Microsoft will ever look at them/care though.
Edit: Speedcrunch is a very decent replacement. http://www.speedcrunch.org/. The website is unbearably awful though.
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@Cursorkeys said in Unrated:
Yep, it also keeps doing that. Even after you've rated it.
So in other words, it was a forgotten relic of the Microsoft advertisement engine example?
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Remember back when Windows default apps were nice simple things you just used if you didn't need anything better? Nowadays, I can't just bring up a calculator for a sec or play a quick game of solitaire. No, I have to be interrupted by fucking DLC upsell notifications and star rating spam and in-app purchases and god knows what else.
I'm NEVER upgrading my mother off Windows 7. There's no way I'm subjecting her to the bullshit that is the new Solitaire (oh, excuse me, Microsoft Solitaire Center Extravaganza, or whatever it's called). Once her netbook dies, I'll just buy her an android or apple tablet with a keyboard cover, and wean her off Windows for good.
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Since you like rating calc.exe so much, you will be thrilled to know that on mobile, one is promped to rate every MS app, including 'phone app', texting app and current Win10 build.
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Since you like rating calc.exe so much, you will be thrilled to know that on mobile, one is promped to rate every MS app, including 'phone app', texting app and current Win10 build.
Microsoft is an embarrassment. Clueless morons blindly copying what they see around, without consistency or understanding.
The same thing they've been doing since the 80-ies, I guess, it's just they used to be much better at it.
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@Tsaukpaetra Actually I think this feature is not coded into Calc App, virtually all Apps from MarketPlace will throw the feedback thing out from time to time. Blame the one who make the "Ask for feedback" behave like this.
Btw, just like all the annoying dialogs that you don't want to see, you can press "Esc" key (or "Back" button on mobile) to get rid of it.
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@cheong Since Apple managed to push anti-user features in their devices and get away with it, now everyone is doing the same. Soon Oracle (the database) will be injecting ADs in query results.
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I do actually really like the calculator app now, a bit better than the old one even. But no, I'm not gonna rate any of this stuff.
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I was asked to rate File Manager yesterday. Yes. Explorer.
I almost ragelinuxed before I remembered that it's the shop PC and runs Windows only hardware interfaces.
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I was asked to rate File Manager yesterday. Yes. Explorer.
Okay, that sounds insane. I hope I never see it.
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Reminds me of this:
Announcing the OMGWTF Winner
The Olympiad of Misguided Geeks at Worse Than Failure Programming Contest was not easy to judge. With their use of OCR, Extreme Hardware Virtualization, and Fractions for math, each finalist represented a very unique and a very wrong way of implementing a simple calculator. We truly believed that...
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File Manager yesterday
How do you rate your experience with finding and opening programs from the Start Menu?
Serious popup/notification thing that I saw once.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Unrated:
File Manager yesterday
How do you rate your experience with finding and opening programs from the Start Menu?
Serious popup/notification thing that I saw once.
Assuming that's an insider thing?
Or was it an actual Win10 release?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Unrated:
File Manager yesterday
How do you rate your experience with finding and opening programs from the Start Menu?
I've seen that in the insider build, but not the official release. E_AS_DESIGNED
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@sloosecannon said in Unrated:
Or was it an actual Win10 release?
Happened from a newly updated 10 Home (er, normal) box. Didn't even get to poke around in the settings app.
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@Tsaukpaetra Wow.
I mean, I get why they'd do that (they want real-world feedback) but.... jeeeez guys, seriously?
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@dcon Actual release build.
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One of the reasons I went macfag / back to linux was I was getting rather fed up with the useless bullshit in Windows 10 when none of it is needed.
I managed to turn most of this crap off but they keep on making it mandatory.
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@cartman82 inb4 the next forcible Windows 7 upgrade tactic being something like this, only for your whole screen. "Like what you see? Then upgrade to Windows 10 or you'll never be able to use this install again!"
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@pydsigner Doesn't the freebie upgrade period end this month?
Edit: End of July, apparently. At which point we can hopefully get past all the Win7 holdouts constantly screaming about being under attack and actually discuss the OS itself.
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Just in case you want it, here's a little trick: you can copy any game or program from a previous version of Windows to a newer one and it will (almost always) work just fine. You can have Windows 7 solitaire, Pinball, and even the 3D Pipes screensaver running on Win10.
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@anonymous234 said in Unrated:
@cartman82
Just in case you want it, here's a little trick: you can copy any game or program from a previous version of Windows to a newer one and it will (almost always) work just fine. You can have Windows 7 solitaire, Pinball, and even the 3D Pipes screensaver running on Win10.Why do I have to? Why can't they just make a good thing? Why do I have to waste my time to get a system that works as well as what I had 10 years ago?
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@cartman82 said in Unrated:
Why do I have to waste my time to get a system that works as well as what I had 10 years ago?
They want your feedback in the Microsoft Store about that!
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@cartman82 Because pay-to-win solitaire with DLC and ads makes them more money than just plain Solitaire, and we live in a (mostly) capitalistic society.
Or we could socialize software, but people don't seem to like the idea.
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@anonymous234 said in Unrated:
@cartman82 Because pay-to-win solitaire with DLC and ads makes them more money than just plain Solitaire, and we live in a (mostly) capitalistic society.
How much more money? Is it worth pissing off people straight into Apple's hands?
Sounds like penny-wise pound-foolish kind of thinking to me.
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@cartman82 they are doing this because Apple made billions doing exactly this. If people "flee" to Apple, it only confirms the strategy was valid.
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@cartman82 said in Unrated:
Why do I have to? Why can't they just make a good thing? Why do I have to waste my time to get a system that works as well as what I had 10 years ago?
Because it's 2016, and EVERYTHING IS A PHOOOOOOOONE
http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/M7hf18C2280gu2IgUunv15GB1Tc=/fit-in/1200x9600/2014%2F11%2F21%2Fb3%2Ftapeworm.59d06.gif
http://d2ciprw05cjhos.cloudfront.net/files/v3/styles/gs_large/public/2014/11/elmer.jpg?itok=wKjvdu-P
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@pydsigner Doesn't the freebie upgrade period end this month?
Edit: End of July, apparently. At which point we can hopefully get past all the Win7 holdouts constantly screaming about being under attack and actually discuss the OS itself.
No, at that point the nag will become "looks like you missed the free upgrade, everything's all ready to go, just slip us a few credit card deets and we can instantly upgrade you!
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Since you like rating calc.exe so much, you will be thrilled to know that on mobile, one is promped to rate every MS app, including 'phone app', texting app and current Win10 build.
Every ASUS app on my Zenpad has an "Encourage us!" button that takes to the Play Store entry for that app, hoping you'll give it a 5-star rating.
Hell, it seems like almost every Android app already asks you to give it a 5-star rating.
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@FrostCat If I ever make an app, I'm going to ask for 1-star ratings. Fuck those 5-star assholes. I want the fucking Google Play store to bury my app so deep that Lucifer's agreeing to my EULA.
