April meme, day 20

[thismaz]

For some reason I have decided to post twice in two days. Goodness knows.

It's possibly due to a feeling of frustration *g*

20. What’s the most frustrating product you own?I try to avoid voluntary association with frustrating objects, but there's one I can't avoid - this thing I'm typing on. A Microsoft compatible computer. Not that I think the

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[kazzy_cee]

I feel your pain I get so frustrated that Microsoft makes it’s own programs unusable after a while. On my old laptop there’s a Microsoft Mail programme and I ended up switching to that after Outlook kept crashing or not opening properly. It’s useless for searching for stuff and doesn’t have a single inbox for multiple accounts so that didn’t help.

I have caved and bought a MacBook Air and actually that will run an Apple version of Outlook etc (thank goodness as their own spreadsheets etc are horrible). It was expensive but it works seamlessly with my iPhone so there’s that but it has its own irritations.

[thismaz]

I like having a desktop mail system, hence Thunderbird when Outlook stopped working. Also, because I can forward more than one account to it, I don't have to log into different webmails.

If you already have an iPhone, I can see that switching to Apple for compatibility makes sense.

[tabaqui]

Dear gods, I hate windows 10. SO MUCH.

Google.docs has a spreadsheet function that is much like Excel, and you can even download the google sheets as Excel documents. Sometimes you have to tweak the little code or script or whatever you call it, for instance: =SUM(C3,C9) or whatever works from gs to excel, but the multiply line i used at work in gs had to be re-written in Excel.

But I google all that, hehe, and have Excel for Dummies as a .pdf on my work computer as i...loathe Excel. But the Chief likes things in Excel, so.

Can't say about mail - I also dislike Outlook a lot, and except for at work use gmail, but I know that's not always an option.

Good luck!

[thismaz]

The web mail interfaces are improving, but I like having a desktop mail system because I can forward more than one account to it and don't have to log in separately to different webmails.

I don't like being tracked, so I don't like google. But it's a long time since I looked at google docs, or their other stuff. They were very basic then, but I'm sure they've improved a lot.

[tabaqui]

I have never 'synced' my google accounts (yeah, I have a few), or given them any personal info, and have everything turned off, blocked, etc. It all annoys me so much.

Which means that my secondary google accounts get almost zero traffic of any kind, yay.

I write in g.docs, because it's so very easy to 'share' with my writing partner, and we can read, write, and edit in real time, and if i 'share' it with my other gmail accounts, I can write pretty much anywhere. So that works for me. :D

[thismaz]

I can imagine that being able to edit in real time is really good, especially if you are on skype or equivalent, too, so you can chat.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

This meme question came up on the right day for you. I hope venting has eased the frustration a smidge!

[thismaz]

It has a smidge, thanks.

[gillo]

Bloody Micro$oft. Always doing the stupid thing.

I, too, am hanging on to Office 2010. It does everything I need, which isn't a lot beyond basic capability. I am not going to start subscribing for a new version I won't even own.

[thismaz]

Yes, the shift from owner to renter does feel like a step backwards.

[sparrow2000]

I was going to say my laptop frustrates me, but it's true that it's not the hardware, it's the software, and more specifically Windows that drives me around the bend sometimes. Or when skype is 'improving my experience'.... (We know a song about that *g*)

[thismaz]

*laughs* Oh yes.