The default version of Webex Meetings used at work has the title bar of the window (you know, the bit you use for dragging the window around) the same uniform colour as other parts of the window that you can’t use for click+drag. Why on god’s green earth would they make those areas indistinguishable?
Also, at work we periodically have to take online training courses on money laundering, etc. One of those training courses had a Forward button, a Back button, a Next button, and a Previous button. One pair of buttons was used for going to the next/previous slide in the course and the other pair…didn’t do that.
And, it wants me to enter this impossible password, and then confirm it, WITHOUT SHOWING IT TO ME.
I’ve never understood why passwords are masked by default. I don’t think that I’ve ever entered my credentials on a website while somebody is looking over my shoulder.
Sounds like the time that the school I was at made a big push for security on their registrar system, and told everyone to use twelve-character passwords with a mix of characters and so on… except that the only passwords actually accepted by the system were four-digit numbers.
Or the time at another school when I was trying to set up my account and kept on getting the error “Your password does not meet length or complexity requirements”, and so I kept trying longer and more complicated passwords, only to eventually discover that it meant that my password was too long and complex, and it needed to be six letters followed by one number.
The reason I re-opened this thread, though, is that the other day, I was making arrangements for a trip I’m taking this summer. I started by trying individual airline websites, but found that they were all about twice as much as I could get on Priceline (it turns out that this was because the cheapest trip used multiple airlines), so Priceline it was. And every single link or button opened up a new window. Select my first flight? New window. Select my second flight? New window. Seats for each of the four legs? New window each one. Add a hotel? New window. Enter my payment information? New window. And then I have to go back and close all of the windows, and hope that none of those windows I just closed still had something important for me to do that wasn’t covered in one of the other windows.
One thing that drives me crazy with Turbo Tax is that it will frequently ask a question like “Did you do such and such last year?” And when I select Yes and go to the next page, it’s got all information from last year pre-populated. Dammit, if you knew I entered information for this last year, why did you ask?
It also sometimes will ask you a series of questions at the beginning of a section, then when you complete the section it takes you through those exact same questions again at the end. Grrr…
Because maybe you closed that bank account. Because maybe you no longer work for that employer.
If TT had pre-populated your return with similar info from last year’s W-2, and you no longer worked for that company, you would have to delete that information, yes?
These sorts of requirements really decrease security, rather than enhance it. Between bank accounts, work email, home email, various streaming services, etc., we all have dozens of things we need to sign into. It’s impossible to remember different complicated passwords for all of them. Which means you either use the same password for everything, or you write your passwords down. Both of which are huge security no-nos.
I think the computer people know this, and are just laughing at us all.
NO! I don’t want to save everything toOneDrive. In fact, I’d like to delete the option but I guess Microsoft is allowed to say what stays permanently on my computer.
Agreed at our house, but a sticky note on a monitor or a slip of paper under the keyboard? Usually not a good idea.
My college had to use the state’s expense reporting system, which required a 12 digit password that has to be changed every 60 days. If I used it on a weekly basis, it might have been ok, but I submitted expenses perhaps once every three months. That means that even if I wrote down the password, there was a good chance that it was already expired. Oh, and you had only three chances to enter it before you got locked out. That’s the first thing that I didn’t miss when I retired.
My work email password must be changed for security reasons every 90 days, and changing it requires calling an automated phone number if you forgot the original password.
I thought of a new one - the RDS display in my new Bronco is ridiculous.
I have a 12” screen - as big as an iPad, and yet it will only display 8 characters…
(FWIW, it must be a Sync issue, because my old Escape did the same thing.)
Google Maps does something that angers me every time it happens.
I type in the address for a place I want to drive to, and select “directions”. The app shows me a recommended route, and usually a couple of other options that are a bit slower. Sometimes, for whatever reason, I select one of those slower routes, and press “start”. I follow the directions. If I miss a turn, or pull in to a parking lot to use an ATM, or something like that, the app will recalculate and give me new directions. But it recalculates based on its own optimum route, not to get back to the route that I already selected.
This pisses me off beyond what it probably should. I have explicitly told the application what I want from it. It overrules my choice, and instead it starts giving me what it thinks I should have. I don’t like an app that thinks it knows what I want better than I do.
My hatred for Outlook is infinite, and many of its myriad issues have been brought up already. But my least favorite feature is so stupid that it feels absurd to even explain it.
The default format inserts two linefeeds when you hit enter once. It is trying to be helpful and space your paragraphs out. This is not helpful.
A huge fraction of my emails consist of text that isn’t in a standard series of paragraphs. Maybe it’s computer code. Maybe it’s a list of key/value pairs. Maybe a hand-formatted table. Whatever. These things expect one linefeed to be one linefeed.
After a great deal of pain, I was able to reconfigure my own template file to eliminate this stupidity. But this is not possible when auto-creating an email from code, or when replying to someone else’s email. And I can’t just change the format wholesale, because then it would break their formatting.
There is another workaround, which is to hit shift-enter instead of enter. It’s unbelievable that I have to do this just to have text formatted the way it is in every other system in the universe. And it still doesn’t fix every problem, because if I paste multi-line text in from another source, it still doesn’t work.
I truly cannot conceive of what convinced Microsoft that this was an acceptable feature. No programmer would have thought of it; they’d have immediately realized that it made their email lives vastly worse. However, I cannot forgive those programmers anyway–they should have refused for ethical reasons.
Ah, I believe your problem is that you’ve made the mistake of keeping current with Microsoft’s never-ending series of useless bloated new versions and updates of Office. On some computers I’ve frozen Office at 2007; on my main and most important one, it’s frozen at 2003, with only an update to handle the new XML-based document formats.
You should try living in the past. It’s very relaxing, and certainly much less frustrating!
Oh, I’ve tried. I even got away with it for a while. But eventually I needed a new system, and found that IT had scoured the network of all old versions of Office. I think they revoked the old keys, too.
At this point I’m wondering if I can get away with an ancient ASCII-only email client, like Pine.
At home, I don’t use any MS “productivity” software. Google’s shit isn’t perfect, but it’s still early in its bloatware progression. And they don’t have that ribbon bar garbage.
I see that I blamed you unfairly – this wasn’t under your control. And, yes, the reason I froze Office at 2003 on my main computer was precisely because of the “ribbon” garbage. With the plug-in that lets it handle the new XML document format, it works just fine. I don’t use that format myself, but it works fine for interoperability with someone else’s content.
Honestly, Microsoft’s motto should be “Pay us money to get the latest versions of our stuff, and let us make your experience worse!”
And, yes, the reason I froze Office at 2003 on my main computer was precisely because of the “ribbon” garbage. With the plug-in that lets it handle the new XML document format, it works just fine. I don’t use that format myself, but it works fine for interoperability with someone else’s content.