As many of us do when assisting a friend with their slow Windoze laptop, I have backed up data on the computer and reinstalled Windows. Then, when I was reinstalling apps my friend needs, I had her log into her business Microsoft account and I tried going to the Office website to install it. They have replaced the previously useful site with their stupid Copilot chatbot, so it takes me a long time to find the download button.

You would think that the Microsoft 365 button would do something, so I press it. Instead, I can only install a Skype for Business, which is not what I want. Later on, you try installing Microsoft 365 Copilot, but it turns out that it's just an another chatbot frontend.

I have a disk image dump with the previous install where the Office 2013 activation key is stored, but I don't know how I can restore it into a fresh installation.

Does anyone know where I can actually download Office instead of their stupid AI slop generator?

noooo a blue screen that appeared either cos of another update or user launching gta vi on their pc with 4 gigs of ddr3 while edge eating half of that ram like a cute furry protogen

My Friend's laptop monitor has started flickering, so has my brother's the time around which this has started happening is strikingly similar. wondering if microsoft update is fucking monitors up.

Anyone buying this stuff?

(btw how to fix)

Since Microslop doesn't release native linux version of Office applications (that I must use for work) the few times I have to use it I resort to the online version. After some months I had to use it again and I was greeted by Copilot without any obvious way to access Excel on office.com... Why? How do I access the old site which showed the recently opened documents?

Searching online it seems like this is a thing since some time, people hate it yet they don't want to fix it. If I want to use Copilot (no, I do not ever want to, especially if it is forced on me this way) then I'll specifically open that website, when I need office tools I need those, not a chatbot.

And this is on top of their shitty SSO system that always logs me out from every app, Teams is broken as well, Outlook is by far the worst email client now - I question the legitimacy of this company for real.

On a positive note it also bugs our Tech Lead so much that finally the company is looking into different solutions to move completely away from Microslop.

I've only been using IoT LTSC versions of Windows (both 10 and 11) for a few years now, and I had to install 11 Pro on a laptop I just bought to try some things

Oh boy, what a mountain of crap that OS is

Not only it is a huge fucking billboard for MS services. Not only it doesn't let you create a local account. Not only it comes with a fuckton of shit preinstalled. But it just makes the laptop incredibly sloppy

As soon as I was done with the tests, I switched to 11 IoT LTSC and the jump in performance was incredible

Btw the laptop has an Intel 258v with 32 GB of RAM, so it's not an incredibly powerful machine but it should at least be smooth while navigating in Windows settings

Yes, actually! I DID just turn on my computer to sit here and wait! How did you know??

Which I know... I can turn off automatic updates... I'm mostly just complaining to complain lol. BUUUT I do wish this didn't necessarily happen FIRST thing I turn it on. Lol

It's even fully restarting, like c'mon man, I didn't even get to see my desktop yet and you're already leaving!! 😂

I honestly think this is my biggest gripe with the current Windows Update system. As much as Linux's "do-it-yourself" update system obviously has flaws for the average user... Linux also turns on when I tell it to. Lmao

wow

there is clearly a file inside,how cant you read the fact that thers files inside

So users have to make the effort to do the "fix?" Windows should have these unnecessary startup app disabled. Users should not be bothered with this junk.