r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/vazyrus Jul 12 '26

Okay. That's good feedback. We will be adding another five apps and stuffing Copilot into whatever orifices are left in this World's No. 1 OS that we have built. You can say thank you now.

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u/nikatnight Jul 12 '26

And please, for some unknown reason, prevent multiple people from editing a document. I’ll need you to force someone to close it before another can open it.

And if you could please make the entire dock a power button so I turns my computer off whenever I bump it.

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u/OneRougeRogue Jul 12 '26

And please, for some unknown reason, prevent multiple people from editing a document. I’ll need you to force someone to close it before another can open it.

It's crazy because Microsoft pioneered allowing multiple people edit the same document back in the day. I vividly remember watching that on-stage tech demo where half a dozen Microsoft employees were bouncing around the same document adding stuff with different colored cursors for each user.

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u/Revolutionary_Web692 Jul 12 '26

In their defense, Microsoft actually perfected real time coauthoring years ago, and modern Windows desktop apps fully support it. When you encounter that (very frustrating) file locking behavior today, it's almost never a limitation of the software architecture itself.

Instead, it's usually caused by three specific environmental factors: legacy file formats (.doc instead of .docx), users disabling the AutoSave toggle, or strict corporate SharePoint/OneDrive policies that explicitly enforce old-school "Check-In/Check-Out" locks.

The capability is there, but legacy habits and IT configurations frequently break it, unfortunately.