By: J Robinson

J Robinson — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:07:59 +0000

With Bill Gates no longer actively involved into the day to day operations of the company he co-founded, it’s apparent Microsoft’s DNA is “evolving” into a very unlikeable species. That company recently solicited me to “try out” MileIQ. The signup process was easy and fast. I tried it for a few weeks but it doesn’t work well for me. I tried to close the account. What a pain in the rear. There is no “close account” option, I contacted their support and after 3 back and forth emails with them asking probing questions that had little to do with my request and probably more of an exercise to keep me from leaving, they advised I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to unsubscribe! At this point I lost it and told them that they are the IT MAFIA – easy to get in, impossible to get out. I then advised that I had asked to be removed from their databases and all mailing lists and if I received any further communication, I would deem is spam. It appears they listened…in part. I didn’t hear from them again, a week later a tried to login to the account and was greeted with the message, “No such account”. Great…except I still receive email from their marketing system even AFTER I’ve clicked “unsubscribe” 5 times! Bottom line is that I’ve had it with Microsoft. I’ll keep using their O/S but outside of that, I’m no longer patronizing them because of the extreme lack of customer care.

By: Alex Rhinelander

Alex Rhinelander — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 23:51:03 +0000

Robert Heinlein — my favourite SF author.

By: Adriano Correa

Adriano Correa — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 23:22:29 +0000

This week’s quote is from Robert Anson Heinlein.

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