Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header

Post by lifestyleguru » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 9:02 AM UTC

yason wrote: post #185

Iridescent_ wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This just reminds me of my theory of Microsoft's checklist-driven development: Some PM writes down some single-sentence description of a feature (e.g. "Share Wi-Fi passwords with contacts") and the developers just read the list and find the single least-effort way of implementing it. Once done, they can tick the item off the list and go home having done their job, although often in the most excruciatingly stupid way…

Because this is Microsoft we shall apply Gates' razor and must thus conclude that "never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice".

Post by davidgerard » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 9:06 AM UTC

resonanttoe wrote: post #184

Years ago MS decided to exploit IRC a very similar way by producing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat - IRC networks and Channel operators hated this shit. It would add a tonne of extra encoding characters that weren't hidden in normal IRC clients. All of this was because they wanted the critical mass of users and didn't want to work at establishing it themselves at the time. (The funny part of it be…

Post by tpoacher » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 9:13 AM UTC

Iridescent_ wrote: post #155

whyoh wrote: post #65

This kinda reminds me of a feature Windows (Phone) used to have, where it would share your Wi-Fi password with the device's contacts automatically. To opt-out you had to add _optout to the SSID name. https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/30/windows_10_wi_fi_sens... It looks like this feature was removed eventually, but it's just one of those tasteless things that MS does every once in a while.

This just reminds me of my theory of Microsoft's checklist-driven development: Some PM writes down some single-sentence description of a feature (e.g. "Share Wi-Fi passwords with contacts") and the developers just read the list and find the single least-effort way of implementing it. Once done, they can tick the item off the list and go home having done their job, although often in the most excruciatingly stupid way…

Post by throwaway290 » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 9:26 AM UTC

whyoh wrote: post #65

This kinda reminds me of a feature Windows (Phone) used to have, where it would share your Wi-Fi password with the device's contacts automatically. To opt-out you had to add _optout to the SSID name. https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/30/windows_10_wi_fi_sens... It looks like this feature was removed eventually, but it's just one of those tasteless things that MS does every once in a while.

Post by g15jv2dp » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 9:36 AM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #125

dylan604 wrote: post #91

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> Second, "reactions" are not part of the email culture or the standard email specs. It's unexpected and awkward. Another old dog refusing to learn a new trick. If you want to talk about not part of email culture, let's not forget images weren't part of the original. So people got over that. They embraced it just like they embraced HTML emails and everything else. You can stand in the middle of the stream, but it's j…

Not everyone embraced it. I still use a plain-text email client.