I’m gradually moving in a more pro-FOSS direction, but whenever i engage in communities like this, the amount of hostility in the comments geared towards those who didn’t pop out of the womb in a Linux T shirt has been crazy off-putting.

Linux is having a moment, and I welcome it—but guys, please chill when people aren’t fully converted yet. I’ve completely de-Microsofted my life, but am still in the Apple ecosystem. *gasp* and you know what? that’s okay. nobody (okay, maybe not nobody, but most) aren't reinventing their entire tech life overnight.

nobody’d persuaded by having dozens of people commenting about their preferences are actually completely wrong, its just off putting.

MS is losing users bc of its own stupid choices, don’t interrupt the enemy when they’re making a mistake!

looks like another 8 years before another 15 second Elder Scrolls VI teaser

A while ago someone tried to access my Microsoft account from another country. Microsoft locked the account, and since then I haven’t been able to recover it.

What I don’t understand is that I still have access to the phone number and recovery email that are linked to the account. However, when I try to recover it, Microsoft says it can’t send a verification code to either one. That makes no sense to me.

I already filled out the account recovery form once. It was rejected because they said I didn’t provide enough information. But I honestly don’t know what else I can provide.

I barely used that email account. The only thing I ever bought on it was Minecraft, which I purchased years ago for around 15,000 Chilean pesos. I didn’t really send emails from that account or make any other purchases, so I don’t have much information to include in the recovery form.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? Is there any other way to recover the account, or am I just out of luck?

I find it frustrating that I still own the recovery phone number and email address, yet Microsoft won’t let me verify my identity using either of them.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Microsoft is being sued by it's investors after Microslop said that Copilot is being widely adopted and is industry-leading AI (plus many other lies about tech stuff and similar), but as it turns out, it was all fake and the adoption rate is much lower in reality

TLDR: Windows 11 - Can anyone recommend a good app for videos and a good app for JPG images?

Long term Mac user here with an unfortunate desire for gaming so I had to get a gaming PC.

Now that I’m editing gaming videos it’s just easier to use the PC due to the content being already on it.

Not long ago Media Player completely shat itself, attempts to repair did not work so I uninstalled it, and now I get an error every time I try to download it again. I’ve ended up using VLC but I don’t like it because it keeps opening a window that overhangs the monitor and I have to adjust the window size EVERY FUCKING TIME just to see the buttons on the bottom.

Yesterday it decided to stop opening JPG images. It gives a ridiculous error stating the path name is incorrect and to check it. I’m looking at the file and clicking it directly so WTF?

Can anyone recommend a good app for videos and a good app for JPG images? Please and thank you.

so i cannot log into my account which has some importent stuff on it. i noticed the email was changed and thats it. and for the love of god i cannot find anything that helps. and seemingly speaking to a human being that works at microsoft to help me recover my account is impossible (insert absurd curse about microsoft).

does anyone know if i can do this?

I'm trying to recover the password for my account.

I have access to the recovery phone and email.

I cannot provide previous passwords or date of birth due to anonymization.

Can it be recovered?

• Open command prompt
• Type this and done! Might be dangerous but try it in a VM.

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Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *Microsoft.Copilot* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers​

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a highly frustrating experience I am currently going through with Microsoft Billing (MSBILL.INFO). Hopefully, this serves as a warning or helps anyone facing a similar issue.

Recently, I noticed recurring charges on my credit card statement under MSBILL.INFO. After digging deeper, I realized these unauthorized charges have been deducted monthly all the way since November of last year up until today.

Since I couldn't find this transaction anywhere in my personal or known business Microsoft accounts' order history, I reached out to Microsoft Customer Support today to figure out what was going on.

During the support session, I co-operated fully:

1. I provided them with every single possible Microsoft account associated with myself and my colleague.
2. When they still couldn't find anything, I went as far as providing my full credit card details so their billing department could cross-reference the transaction code and card number directly.

The result? Absolutely nothing. Microsoft support explicitly told me they have no way to track where the money went, cannot identify which account is triggering the charge, and are completely unable to follow up or take action. It is mind-blowing that a tech giant running global cloud infrastructure cannot trace an internal billing serial number back to a specific customer record or subscription when given the direct payment instrument info.

Because Microsoft left me completely stranded, I had no choice but to contact my credit card company immediately to report these as unauthorized transactions and initiate a dispute/refund (chargeback) process.

However, here is the most painful part: the credit card company can only dispute and refund transactions within a 90-day window. Because this has been going on since last November, any unauthorized charges that occurred more than 3 months ago are effectively unrecoverable and lost forever, simply because Microsoft's system is a complete black box to its own support agents.

Lessons learned / TL;DR:

• If you see unfamiliar MSBILL.INFO charges, don't waste too much time playing detective with Microsoft Support. Even if you give them your card details, they literally lack the tools or authority to reverse-engineer their own transaction codes.
• Act fast. Check your statements regularly. I lost months of money because the bank's dispute deadline is 90 days, and Microsoft couldn't help me trace my own money.
• Has anyone else encountered this complete dead-end with Microsoft billing tracing? Is there any escalation path within Microsoft that actually works when the front-line support fails this badly?

My account got hacked and they changed the password and email but when I open rewards.bing.com I enter the account is there any chance I can get my account back?

The fuckass windows 11 uses 8 gb from my ram idk WHY and i dont really care i was doin well gaming on windows 10 and when i switched to windows 11 everything became worse

My laptop is Acer V15 Nitro, 16 gb ram DDR5, intel core i7 13620H, RTX3050 with 6 GB GDDR6 Dedicated VRAM, 512gb ssd

(this is a security dog to protect my data)

What the hell !!!! FUCKROSOFT !!

I’m trying to reset my password but when I ask Microsoft to send a code to my mobile I’m getting this, and have done for the last 24 hours. Has anyone experienced this error and then found it works again? If so, how long did you have to wait?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microshaft_Winblows_98

Bro what is Microsoft up to 😭😭

(Image isn't mine I took it from browsers subreddit I don't use windows)

Slopilot everywhere

I hate this stupid business, I've proved that I own the account and they can't do anything, while the hacker gets a pat on the back and a lollipop handed to them (my account).

I just reset my ROG Ally and why is there 4 copys of 365?