I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.
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@ben_lubar Hmm. I saw those too. I'm pretty sure we only have a Pro license... Someone done fucked up...
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@ben_lubar You neglected to demonstrate that the notification is a lie.
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Isn't it just for a month's trial? I got the same message.
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@blakeyrat said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@ben_lubar You neglected to demonstrate that the notification is a lie.
Apparently that site being down = free MSDN subscriptions for everyone?
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@blakeyrat said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@ben_lubar You neglected to demonstrate that the notification is a lie.
I trust @ben_lubar more than I trust Microsoft.
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@Zecc said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
I trust @ben_lubar more than I trust Microsoft.
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Weird.
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@coldandtired What?
I don't trust @ben_lubar
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@TimeBandit said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@coldandtired What?
I don't trust @ben_lubar
Don't touch it. It's concentrated evil.
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@Zecc Well, Ben has done a better job maintaining this forum than Microsoft does maintaining all their websites.
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@anonymous234 said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
than Microsoft does maintaining all their websites
You put the bar so low, might as well play Limbo
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@anonymous234 said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@Zecc Well, Ben has done a better job maintaining this forum than Microsoft does maintaining all their websites.
Microsoft's website was down yesterday, but it's up now, and I can confirm:
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@ben_lubar Ok see NOW it's a WTF.
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@anonymous234 I remember a few months back when microsoft.se would give a 404 because MS changed the actual url of their swedish site but didn't update the redirect. And it stayed like that for at least a couple weeks.
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@Atazhaia said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@anonymous234 I remember a few months back when microsoft.se would give a 404 because MS changed the actual url of their swedish site but didn't update the redirect. And it stayed like that for at least a couple weeks.
Didn't we have a topic about that site editing out a black guy in some image at some point?
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@Atazhaia said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
A few days ago, going to microsoft.com triggered an "invalid certificate" error, at least on Firefox. www.microsoft.com didn't. (They appear to have fixed it now.)
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@Zerosquare said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@Atazhaia said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
A few days ago, going to microsoft.com triggered an "invalid certificate" error, at least on Firefox. www.microsoft.com didn't. (They appear to have fixed it now.)What, are you telling me they're not the same site??
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@Zecc: ah, the old "we have to hide http:// and www! They scare users!" brainworm.
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users don't read URLs anyways. The URL could be http://fake-bank-4971.scammers-unlimited.ru/, with
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it could make a bit of sense on smartphones in portrait mode because of the limited horizontal space, but it's pointless for tablets and desktops. And screens are getting larger, not smaller.
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@Zerosquare At least with Firefox you can bring back http:// by changing a setting. Chrome takes the hiding so seriously not even addons can bring it back(!).
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@Atazhaia with chrome, if it says"not secure" it's http
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@TimeBandit said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@Atazhaia with chrome, if it says"not secure" it's http
At least, if it's not http/https it will still show up:
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@Atazhaia said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@Zerosquare At least with Firefox you can bring back http:// by changing a setting. Chrome takes the hiding so seriously not even addons can bring it back(!).
It's a setting in Chrome too, unless it got removed for some reason.
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@ben_lubar When I tried finding said setting I couldn't. And then I found a bug report filed about the issue which got a very Jeff Atwood response from a Chromium dev and slapped with a WONTFIX.
Bonus points being that another dev also was confused by the change and couldn't understand why there was no option to turn the display of full URL back on.
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@Atazhaia said in I really wish Microsoft would stop straight-up lying to me.:
@ben_lubar When I tried finding said setting I couldn't. And then I found a bug report filed about the issue which got a very Jeff Atwood response from a Chromium dev and slapped with a WONTFIX.
Bonus points being that another dev also was confused by the change and couldn't understand why there was no option to turn the display of full URL back on.
If I type "crbug" into my address bar I get a graveyard of bugs I reported that aren't fixed yet.
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@ben_lubar They ain't never gonna fix that font one. It only affects all the millions of people who own Dells while visiting Google's own web properties.
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Font matching was a pain in the butt back around the year 2000. Good to see adding a bunch of new font file formats hasn't changed anything.
At least our desktop publishing app did it reasonably well, even if we had to write a workaround for Windows periodically resetting the available fonts for no apparent reason.
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Firefox has a similar behavior. It'll use the local font is one is available, even if some attributes don't match (normal vs bold, for example).
A friend didn't understand why his website's fonts didn't look quite right on some machines, even with identical browser versions, OS and hardware. Tracing the root issue was "fun".
