The more genius - the more dangerous

The temptation to steal personal information is, of course, irresistible for crooks like Staya Nadella, since his software runs everywhere, and of course he has to maintain benevolent facade. So, Microsoft benevolently puts out this article on how to allow Visual Studio through the firewall because some might want to try to retain some shreds of privacy. Ha-ha!

So, let's read through Install and use Visual Studio and Azure Services behind a firewall or proxy server and see how well MS fares in this respect.

The very first thing one spots is that the article provides URLs whereas Windows firewall supports IP addresses only. Well, thanks for nothing, Satya. But let us carry on!

What is the 2nd thing you spot? Right! They provide no EXE names, except for PerfWatson.exe spyware. But even then the real McCoy is PerfWatson2.exe which does the actual spying and uploading of data.

The article was apparently written by someone genius who does not trouble themselves with pesky details necessary to set the actual firewall rules up. Or... do they know that VS can circumvent Windows firewall, so they provide instructions for real hardware firewalls that do support DNS names? Who knows...

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The latest Visual Studio 2022: a horrendous, scary piece of stinking garbage

And I thought that VS 2019 was bad! Enter VS 2022:

1. Frightening, unpredictable multi-undo in the designer causing lost work.
2. Intermittently, designer files are not saved, causing lost work.
3. Intermittently, build never switches to error list. This happens more frequently after refactoring.
4. Unpredictably working or non-working intellisence.
5. Obtuse intellisence substitution.
6. Editor, designer, toolbox, and property windows intermittently fail to initialize.

Massive, fundamental changes in the editor and intellisence that MS has undertaken for this new version have apparently not been tested enough. Probably not tested at all. Had they only tested all of the above would have been noticed prior to the release.

Total, utter disrespect that MS is showing for its customer base is typical for Chinese society: rudeness is considered a virtue, politeness being an attribute of Capitalist decadence. We are SOL.

The only solution is a nuke but where do we drop it? On Redmond or elsewhere?

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Microsoft: Much ado about nothing

Back in the day of advent of Internet, software had been robust. All of infrequent bug reports could have been submitted over the official 1-800 line. This changed rapidly after about 2010 when Internet became omnipresent and mature. Companies like MS created bug trackers. This was the beginning of the end.

'Build them and they will come'. So, they built bug trackers. Now that they have bug trackers they have to produce some results. Results are measured in bug reports. So, they need more bug reports. But many bug reports are bad, so what do we do with bad bug reports? We close them as invalid. Bingo!

Notice that 100% of names of responders to bug reports in MS bug trackers are Chinese. Chinese are communists. Communists prefer to pretend to work rather than work. So, we have pretend-work:

• Investigating and fixing bugs is hard, and the success or failure criteria is immediately obvious to the user.
• Pretending to work on vulnerabilities is easy because no one will ever be able to tell whether it was fixed or not.

And so we have perpetual work on vulnerabilities but no bugs ever fixed. Congratualtions, Western civilization: you are feeding a monster!

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