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Posted Jun 13, 2022 12:43 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: autosave by rschroev
Parent article: Per-file OOM badness

Of course, there's the issue that showed up on a machine I was helping out with where MS Office lost the ability to "Save As" (the directory selection never showed up). This was…OK, but when it lost even "Save", the only way to save work was:

- autosave to OneDrive (could not choose a local directory AFAICT) behind a Microsoft account
- "Send" the document over email then save the attachment from the draft message
- reinstall MS Office (which forced an upgrade)

There are all kinds of complexities involved in this new mechanism and I'm sure all kinds of new bugs will show up because of it too. I love how companies seem to be ensuring future prospects by deleting working code in preference for new, buggy code.


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Posted Jun 13, 2022 13:30 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> I love how companies seem to be ensuring future prospects by deleting working code in preference for new, buggy code.

The problem, of course, is when your working code stops working because of a forced upgrade somewhere else.

I'm now an Excel VBA programmer in practice - oh how I wish I could push all that crap into a decent database ...

(And no, I don't fancy the politics that would entail ...)

Cheers,
Wol


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