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Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal (www.techspot.com)
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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (25 children)

No real reason to be using a hotmail account in this day and age, even less so if you're a developer of a direct competitor for Microsoft.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Do they even still issue them? Like prior to ~2007 Hotmail was THE free email to have before Google, like, did it better. But aren't they issuing outlook.com addresses now?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

When MS ditched the Hotmail name, they went to their "Live" branding. I have an account with that domain, in addition to my old Hotmail account.

I wish I held onto my old Yahoo account, but it got so full of spam that it became completely unusable; so I deleted it 🫤

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Apparently Yahoo uses Microsoft Bing for their search backend.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines?

There's Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome.

There's Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Because complacency. That's all I can think of.

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