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RIP productivity for all those Amazon employees. My company recently made the switch and it has been rough as this trash doesn't even work half the time. We've been using all the same standalone products for decades without issue but now after the switch to 365, I regularly can't check email or opening a fucking PowerPoint. Also the wonderful OneDrive loves to duplicate every fucking shortcut on my desktop until it's filled with 17 copies of each one along with filling the C:\ drive on every shared PC to 99% capacity.

I swear to god the people in charge of making these decisions have no concept of how any of this stuff works or what benefit (if any) it'll bring to their employees. They seem to believe every sales pitch about some off-the-shelf solution revolutionizing their workflows and can't wait to fork over money that would be much better spent elsewhere like on the materials/equipment we actually use every single day to perform our jobs but is in short supply or in a terrible state of disrepair because "there's no money in the budget for that."

My company recently started using MS Authenticator for 2FA in our emails. At first I was pleased about the extra security. But the way they implemented it is so fucking bonkers I can’t even handle it.

When you log in, it tells you to check your phone. On your phone you have to enter your password, then wait about 10 seconds, use biometrics, then they show you a number, and then ask you to type that number - on your phone, the same fucking device they showed it to you. And if you miss the number flashing, the text box where you enter the number covers the number so you have to tap “I can’t see the number, hide this box”. Then, if you’re trying to check your email on mobile, you have to force quit Outlook because it won’t load new emails until it launches.

The worst part is that you lose your token two times a day. So you have to log in twice a day on every device you use. It’s such a hindrance to productivity it’s insane.

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This is good news. I’m in favor of anything that makes it more difficult for Amazon to operate.

Why do they call it 365 when it doesn't work for 5 days every year?

Doing the reacharounds in public eh?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a major customer of its 365 cloud productivity tools, a megadeal that would transform bitter rivals into business partners, according to an internal document and a person familiar with the situation.

The e-commerce giant has committed more than $1 billion over five years to secure more than one million Microsoft 365 license seats, according to the document, which was reviewed by Insider.

Groups within Microsoft's Office and security organizations are starting to scale up to meet the demand, according to the person familiar.

One potential draw for Amazon is that employees would have alternatives to in-house products such as WorkDocs and Chime, which are not that popular.

Amazon has tried to offer cloud-based productivity tools to other business customers, but those services have not had huge uptake generally.

Contact reporter Ashley Stewart via the encrypted messaging app Signal (+1-425-344-8242) or email (astewart@insider.com).

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thats going to suck. 365 is hot garbage

That might almost pay for how much of 365's infrastructure Microsoft has run on AWS over the years.

The comments here are ridiculous. 2FA works fine if configured right, ours only checks in if outside network and only once per new device every 14 days. 365 works fine as well. I have had some issues using Web Excel, but all desktop apps work pretty much the same as the others. Outlook with the try new version is the only pile of trash I've seen. Other than that, the one thing that does suck more than any of this is its ridiculously expensive and subscription based. The fortune we spend now and monitoring needed to be done on licenses and space used is also frustrating. Mail only offering 2gb unless higher license level is crazy especially for how much you're paying them.