Everything that is wrong about Microsoft, in one bug report

With great power comes great responsibility. My ass! Not in Microsoft's case.

Backgrounder: around 2017 times, MS broke offline help for C#, .NET, and Visual Studio. Developers noticed it and reported it as a bug:

A long-winded bug report

Give it a read! It is informative. In short, a number of developers, over the course of several years, report that despite all assurances to the contrary by Microsoft's "support", the issue has never been fixed.

Many, including myself, prefer offline, local help because it is FAST. It is much faster to hit F1 anywhere in VS and get INSTANT result, instead of waiting for the browser to start up and spin through the loading of a remote page. Needless to say, if you are not currently connected to Internet, then you are SOL (as in royally fucked).

Some of us develop from secure environments behind restrictive firewalls. Some of those firewalls block Microsoft on purpose, for a good reason: it is a ginormous security risk to allow all of MS software to dial home. They screwed us over. Instead of seeing contextual help, we see an error message that says that the topic was not found.

They could have fixed this problem. They had years for that. But they do not, intentionally. Apparently, they have a good reason for that, and I am going to explain what it is.

Microsoft is a strategical resource, for our civilization. The world's economy runs on Microsoft's Windows OS, SQL Server database, .NET platform, Office office, and Azure cloud, of late. Without Microsoft and its products the world will grind to a halt, and this is not an overstatement.

Who controls Microsoft? It is an Indian national Satya Nadella. India is a BRICS country. We allow our strategic adversary to control our critical resource.

The entire development and support branch of Microsoft is in China. China is a BRICS and SOC country. We allow our strategic adversary to control our critical resource. Oh, did I already say it? It is worth repeating!

And now, we see the evidence of a BRICS and SOC-controlled Microsoft showing its gnarled teeth and screwing our development community over. Surprised? I am not.

The corporation should have long time ago split into the OS company, DB server company, office company, .NET+Visual Studio company, and cloud company, instead of living on as a giant worldwide monopoly. But no one gives a damn, and this farce continues.

No wonder there is exodus from Microsoft technologies ecosystem to those stinking Pythons, Gos, Rubies, Rs, Rusts, and other mutant shits!

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