• just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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    20 hours ago

    I’m guessing the vast majority of its users are students and corporate employees, neither of which get a say in which software is used.

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      12 hours ago

      They have no say… up until everyone actually says something. Then maybe we do have a say.

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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        9 hours ago

        Uhuh. Let me know how that works for you, out in a real corporate setting.

        In my experience you can say all you want (if you’re lucky), but in the end, switching providers on a large scale costs a lot of money. And their money is more important than your discomfort.

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          3 hours ago

          Convincing just one person there is an issue is progress. Cooperating with another for better negotiations is progress.

          Are there benefits of promoting inaction?

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      18 hours ago

      Yea I’m a student and my community college uses Outlook. It sucks because I really don’t use that email for anything, and sometimes I get signed out and don’t notice and then I don’t get a notification when the professor sends out a class email

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        10 hours ago

        You could set up a mail forwarding rule in the web client to forward all incoming mail to your primary email.

        Nothing quite like dumb workarounds for Microsoft bullshit.

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          Thanks, I’ll look into that. It’s frustrating though because I’ve been signed into google on all three of my devices for months and months without getting logged out. My college uses Microsoft login for email and Canvas, which is like Blackboard, and for Self-Service, which is for registering and billing etc and I constantly need to login again and again.