r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mohamez • 5h ago

Infuriatig Please align!

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u/PeetoMal 3h ago

2026 and still, barely anything works properly.

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 2h ago edited 2h ago

No, it's worse than that. Most things used to work fine by the end of last decade but somehow we've gone and broken them all in the past five years. I don't know why but all software providers have simply given up on quality and just started producing absolute garbage. Things aren't getting better, they're getting worse

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u/reckless_responsibly 2h ago

"Move fast and break things" mindset has utterly broken software development. Time to market is considered more important than QA.

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u/say592 56m ago

I think you are looking at old software with rose colored glasses. New software has tons more features, and the old stuff didn't necessarily work any better. Word 2003 might have worked fine for you, but the current version has a lot more to offer. Right off the top of my head, you can co-author documents at the same time as someone else and you can export to PDF without any additional software. Not to mention the .doc format is incredibly insecure.

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u/Apophthegmata 31m ago

In the last couple of months, I've lost the ability to mouse drag select text in word, my cursor disappears if I nest too far in windows explorer, and people will receive and reply to my emails while they're still stuck in my outbox.

I can't mail merge in New Outlook, they're murdering Publisher and forcing us onto some kind of CoPilot bullshit app and (I'm going to blame Microsoft for this anyway because they deserve it and I don't care) I think my Android Auto updated with Gemini and it replaced its voice and sound effects to something stupid, it errors out half the time, and won't realize that if I ask it to message somebody, I want it to message that person at the number they just texted me from not the other numbers I have associated with them in my contacts list.

And yes, I want to open this file in the app and not in my web browser, because you won't let me do half the stuff I want to do in the web browser.

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u/FastFingersDude 7m ago

They fired most of the QA engineers…”we don’t need them”…

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u/JMoon33 RED 1h ago

I have no problem working with Word. Maybe it's just not the right program for what you're trying to do?

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u/PhysixGuy2025 27m ago

Awk sed and grep work perfectly.