Post AsW064B8KdSCUpLJaq by reese@mast.dragon-fly.club
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(DIR) Post #AsVzcHgpX6LxiGy34S by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T13:42:13Z
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I think there's someone at microsoft who gets paid based on how many domains a given download goes through.I clicked a download on microsoft.com, typed my email into microsoftonline.com, my password into live.com, and ended up downloading from visualstudio.com
(DIR) Post #AsVzzH9pg5GKisUpcG by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T13:46:26Z
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and visualstudio.com didn't have the download I needed. good to know that was worth it
(DIR) Post #AsW03Eo2MXzsaWBtnU by emily_s@mastodon.me.uk
2025-03-28T13:47:04Z
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@foone ah like my dad used to wonder if some roads are built by people paid by the wiggle
(DIR) Post #AsW064B8KdSCUpLJaq by reese@mast.dragon-fly.club
2025-03-28T13:47:20Z
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@foone you mean you guess it's have a calc because you got the result?
(DIR) Post #AsW0iMDhhc6DSGntC4 by neilcar@infosec.exchange
2025-03-28T13:54:34Z
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@foone I suspect it's an artifact of an ancillary problem -- Microsoft VPs get paid for making up new brands then consolidating anything they can under them. Thus, you end up with product names that rapidly lose all sense of meaning.When I was still in CSS at Microsoft, my team owned things that eventually got consolidated under the "Forefront" brand. But, there were so many of them that people would say something like "Oh, we have a problem with Microsoft Forefront" and it would lead to an interrogation about whether they were talking about desktop anti-malware, a network reverse proxy, an identity tool, or something that had recently been branded Forefront but we hadn't heard about it yet.A friend who is still at Microsoft told me they stopped counting at 30 products with "Defender" somewhere in the name. I'm surprised you didn't have to go through microsoftdefender.com so that Defender for Visual Studio Identity Verification Pro could check that you're human...
(DIR) Post #AsW1CcomYWRdcWZzRQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T13:59:58Z
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@kawa yup.and that ISO is already mounted and installing!
(DIR) Post #AsW1kGWTxHGsJq3pWi by Justin@social.younger.wtf
2025-03-28T14:06:02Z
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@foone my favorite thing is microsofts domain redirect making it so you have to click back like 7 times on your browser to go back
(DIR) Post #AsW2BO2W7GiVRyyeLA by huronbikes@cyberplace.social
2025-03-28T14:10:56Z
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@foone Given what I see working with development in Azure, I would totally believe this.
(DIR) Post #AsW3fd0p72UYWrAYCG by rkarman@mastodon.world
2025-03-28T14:27:38Z
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@foone Then let me tell you all about our lord and savior, cloud.microsoft…
(DIR) Post #AsW4iPQYB5J9Dc5nrE by ZeldaTheBunny@girlcock.club
2025-03-28T14:39:18Z
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@foone Enterprise is so bad with domain names. A software I used to use at work changed URLs and webpage designs every couple years and broke all existing bookmarks without redirects half of the time they moved.
(DIR) Post #AsWByELXqJSZAHF6WG by dascandy@infosec.exchange
2025-03-28T16:00:30Z
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@foone and then they complain when it doesn't work on proper browsers because of "cross domain scripting prevention"
(DIR) Post #AsWhbtKkU6569nGJHc by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-28T21:55:06Z
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@joepie91 I was actually using that installer to update my VS2022 at the same time