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reliefcrew 2 days ago [-]
> There was no clear pop-up, no "Are you sure you want to
You haven't learned MSFT's m.o. yet... this kind of pop-up only shows up when you're absolutely certain about something, like removing files. In those cases they ask for confirmation endlessly and needlessly.
When they're trying to collect money, they go ahead and quickly guess with all the defaults as they see fit. I'm surprised the default isn't 1000 seats tbh. After all, you're certain to be a huge success now that you've chosen them as a vendor.
;-)
davidstarkjava 2 days ago [-]
Haha, fair point. Honestly I should be thanking them for believing my side project will magically hit 25 employees overnight!
But yeah, the contrast is wild. Try to delete an empty text file? "ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE?". Try to upgrade a $3 billing plan? "Let me just casually attempt to charge you $1k while you blink
0xCE0 2 days ago [-]
What you described is true, I also experienced this same:
This is why I use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft365.
davidstarkjava 2 days ago [-]
I love LibreOffice for documents, but in this case I was specifically trying to set up custom domain email routing (Exchange) for my project. Sadly LibreOffice can't host my MX records haha. If only setting up decent email deliverability was as easy as installing an open-source word processor.
azarai 2 days ago [-]
I've been using Fastmail for years now to host emails for my domains. Works like a charm. Maybe worth for you too.
john_saptra 2 days ago [-]
recently i was helping a a friend purchase a custom domain, and signup to a email service; even though i use fastmail, i was surprised to find proton was like 3eur per month (fastmail is 5eur). when my renewal expires, i will probably switch to proton - for 10eur the features are really good;
hulitu 19 hours ago [-]
> When I went to their support chat to ask why my billing was so high, the system conveniently gave me a "System error, try again later" message. You can't even get help.
New to Microsoft ?
You get more help from someone in the street than from Microsoft.
Did you read the TOS before buying ? Microsoft has very good lawyers.
You haven't learned MSFT's m.o. yet... this kind of pop-up only shows up when you're absolutely certain about something, like removing files. In those cases they ask for confirmation endlessly and needlessly.
When they're trying to collect money, they go ahead and quickly guess with all the defaults as they see fit. I'm surprised the default isn't 1000 seats tbh. After all, you're certain to be a huge success now that you've chosen them as a vendor.
;-)
But yeah, the contrast is wild. Try to delete an empty text file? "ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE?". Try to upgrade a $3 billing plan? "Let me just casually attempt to charge you $1k while you blink
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258982
New to Microsoft ? You get more help from someone in the street than from Microsoft.
Did you read the TOS before buying ? Microsoft has very good lawyers.