You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
This was the only good thing about the Wayside cartoon
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i have had a frustrating experience, but it's all my own doing
i made a new microsoft account and password when i set up office on this machine, because paranoia, and forgot not just the password but the account name
so now i'm waiting for microsoft support to email me so i can get back into my account
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
the irony is everything that i did out of paranoia before has been entirely undermined in the last few hours in attempt to get my account back and get office back
i had 2 hours of sleep wednesday night and none at all tonight
i want my computer 100% working the way it was with all my stuff *now* but i don't think there's anything i can do until microsoft get back to me so i guess i'll leave it for now and get breakfast
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've done it before. Sometimes it just happens.
Like the night they arrested the Boston Marathon bomber and I stayed up for 24 hours straight without even realizing it until I started questioning why I was suddenly feeling like I needed to crash.
after waiting all day for an email from microsoft so that i can reset my password, regain access to my account and recover my office install, they sent me the exact same form i was unable to fill out before, and a lecture on account security
i don't want to be mean, but password managers are for this kind of thing. your options are
single password point of failure
you forget a password, and either give up, or let a central service reset it for you
the last of course requires that you prove your identity to them, which is what the password is for to begin with. Calling support and asking for resets is actually a common attack nowadays, so it makes sense that Microsoft rejected you here (if i understand what you said correctly)
so you're either going to have to find the password, or mail microsoft a blood sample or whatnot to do a reset, if they even allow that. it sucks for you, of course. sorry this is happening
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i don't want to be mean, but password managers are for this kind of thing. your options are
single password point of failure
you forget a password, and either give up, or let a central service reset it for you
the last of course requires that you prove your identity to them, which is what the password is for to begin with. Calling support and asking for resets is actually a common attack nowadays, so it makes sense that Microsoft rejected you here (if i understand what you said correctly)
so you're either going to have to find the password, or mail microsoft a blood sample or whatnot to do a reset, if they even allow that. it sucks for you, of course. sorry this is happening
no it's ok, i realize i brought this on myself
i am gutted though
at the same time i do feel kind of hard done by, they know i'm not lying because i allowed one of their reps remote access and he confirmed that the account had been used from the PC i'm using. so it's not a question of security, they know it's me they're just pretending not to because procedure demands that i answer their security questions, which i can't because they're asking for information that literally doesn't exist, about credit cards i never used and emails i never sent
so although it's my fault it's still frustrating as all heck
in any case i didn't even know about password managers until CA brought them up, so that wouldn't have helped me
at this point i don't really expect them to solve the problem, but i'm just gonna keep pestering them because obviously i don't have the money to keep buying the same software every time my OS needs to update and decides it needs to be a PITA about it
i don't want to be mean, but password managers are for this kind of thing. your options are
single password point of failure
you forget a password, and either give up, or let a central service reset it for you
the last of course requires that you prove your identity to them, which is what the password is for to begin with. Calling support and asking for resets is actually a common attack nowadays, so it makes sense that Microsoft rejected you here (if i understand what you said correctly)
so you're either going to have to find the password, or mail microsoft a blood sample or whatnot to do a reset, if they even allow that. it sucks for you, of course. sorry this is happening
no it's ok, i realize i brought this on myself
i am gutted though
at the same time i do feel kind of hard done by, they know i'm not lying because i allowed one of their reps remote access and he confirmed that the account had been used from the PC i'm using. so it's not a question of security, they know it's me they're just pretending not to because procedure demands that i answer their security questions, which i can't because they're asking for information that literally doesn't exist, about credit cards i never used and emails i never sent
so although it's my fault it's still frustrating as all heck
in any case i didn't even know about password managers until CA brought them up, so that wouldn't have helped me
at this point i don't really expect them to solve the problem, but i'm just gonna keep pestering them because obviously i don't have the money to keep buying the same software every time my OS needs to update and decides it needs to be a PITA about it
i believe that microsoft doesn't actually intended to release further versions of windows, and instead will just keep changing this one
there is a chance that once we get a little closer to the support cutoff date for 10 (October 2020) we might see something like a 10.1 or a major update in the same vein, but something tells me that they won't really end up reinventing the wheel with a completely new version of Windows for a good while; since Windows 8 dropped it's seemed like they've been pivoting to a strategy more like that of Apple, where big software revisions are branded more as updates of the same OS rather than new operating systems entirely
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This weekend is gonna rock
I mean, everything I've seen of it has been utterly fantastic!
there is a chance that once we get a little closer to the support cutoff date for 10 (October 2020) we might see something like a 10.1 or a major update in the same vein, but something tells me that they won't really end up reinventing the wheel with a completely new version of Windows for a good while; since Windows 8 dropped it's seemed like they've been pivoting to a strategy more like that of Apple, where big software revisions are branded more as updates of the same OS rather than new operating systems entirely
I don't think I do but I will take the compliment.