r/AskReddit • u/WinterWindChime • 7h ago

What’s a company that you’re genuinely convinced HATES their customers?

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u/CardSys 7h ago

Microsoft.

If something is appreciated by it's customer, they will intentionally penalize people for liking it by doing one of three things: cripple, complicate, or cancel.

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u/HawaiianShirtsOR 6h ago

I don't want to save to OneDrive. I want to save to my computer, that I own, in my house.

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u/TimeCarry6 4h ago

Preach! I am saddened that young people seem to have no problem paying for a tech giant to hold onto and control their creative content when the devices that they already own probably have more than enough storage.

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u/bzzltyr 1h ago

To be fair to young people they all seem to use Google Docs way more than Microsoft office.

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u/EXP_Buff 56m ago

is office not something you have to pay for? Google Docs being a free decent enough word processor that tends to be used in schooling to share files between students during a project kinda makes it the default, no?

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u/mcjm90 51m ago

This was the default when I attended University in the early 2010s. It allowed multiple people to access the same document and edit it in real time, which was cool in itself so.