Fail.
Heh. Made me guffaw. 
Umm, Frank is in Ohio, which is in the U.S., where we whine, not *whinge *.
If it makes you feel any better, that Skype service that they’re advertising, the one you don’t want?
They just updated it so that Skype users (like me) who could formerly transfer files directly with people we’re chatting with now “SHARE” files instead — the files get uploaded to Skype’s hosting server (unclear on whether they vaporize them on close of window or what) and the other person’s copy of Skype fetches it from Skype’s server if and only if they, too, are using the slick new Skype 7. If not, you get a link you have to freaking click then you have to log onto your Skype account in your freaking web browser, then I guess right-click and download the damn thing.
Skype is now a Microsoft product. It shows.
No doubt you thank Jehovah’s Witnesses for the free service they’re providing you with when they show up at your door.
The hours of entertainment they provide when I can out-argue them is a wonderful free service. Not sure they’d be thanking me for it though.
But this complaint is like asking the Jehovah’s Witnesses to come round, accepting their magazines, then complaining when you get an extra magazine that you are in no way obliged to read, or do anything other than put in the bin. The OP hasn’t got someone bringing round (for free) something they don’t want, they are being given something extra, that they can completely ignore, in addition to what they want.
It is absolutely fucking ridiculous.
The one that insists I have to link it to a microsoft account that I don’t want thank you much? Thank Og for Google.
Have you recently updated to Windows 8, or bought a new computer that has it? A widely encountered bug causes the close button normally found in the extreme upper right corner to be invisible, though it is actually there. Just click or tap where you would normally expect to find the button, and the box should close.
Cite?
The same cozy corner of his intellect that justifies thieving does oh so much more for him!
Can I (a sometimes defender of Microsoft) piggback on this rant to say how much the MS Office activation process sucks sweaty donkey balls?
I’m talking about the activation of individual copies of Office ‘Home & Business’ (not 365, and not volume licenses).
You have to register it against a Microsoft account in order to install it. OK - no problem. You can activate up to 25 different licensed copies of Office against the same account, so for a small business that:
[ol]
[li]Is too small to go for Volume licensing[/li][li]Doesn’t want the subscription model of 365[/li][/ol]
You have to either create a new account for each and every installation of MS office, or create a handful of accounts with 25 licenses attached to each, then…
WADE THROUGH AN UNLABELLED, UNSORTED LIST OF LICENCES!
“Something went wrong with activation. Select which of the following products you installed on this machine:
Microsoft Office Home & Business 2013
Microsoft Office Home & Business 2013
Microsoft Office Home & Business 2013
Microsoft Office Home & Business 2013
Microsoft Office Home & Business 2013
or Microsoft Office Home & Business 2013”
Make sure you don’t pick the wrong one, or the activation won’t work.
There was a time where I would have agreed with you, but gmail’s web interface is very usable with lower overhead than a discrete client, and unless you have a need for features (and the attendant headaches) provided by Outlook on an Exchange backend, will pretty much handle mail anyway you want it to.
No it’s not. It’s like them coming around and offering only one magazine that you accept. But then they switch and send you two and insist you read the one you don’t want first.
Hear, hear!
I’ve always thought using a webmail interface was like trying to use a tricycle for serious transportation.
Do you use a pop-up blocker or Adblock? If not, turn off pop-ups in your browser and load up Adblock and see if that makes the ad go away.
What did people do for their daily dose of irritation before the Internet?
Here’s hoping the OP doesn’t use LinkedIn.
Why are you complaining about what Steophan says? He’s providing a service to you. If you don’t like his service then get a different user or stop using users all together. Or don’t post in his user where he users. Users that use stupid on a message board use posts considering that you are saying who.
I don’t like any of the services this thread is providing and wish to fill out a customer survey card.
I have a Yahoo email account and I fear that when Yahoo gets sold, the same bullshit that what is happening to the OP will happen to me. On the other hand, these email accounts are Free (as in beer) so I really shouldn’t complain.