New UI, Same Old Microsoft

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The accounting department's Excel wizard has secretly built a more reliable distributed system than your entire engineering team. While you're debugging dependency hell in your microservices architecture, Barbara from accounting has 70 perfectly synchronized Excel sheets running the entire company without a single Kubernetes cluster in sight. Her "legacy system" hasn't crashed in 15 years, and nobody dares ask how it works because the last IT guy who tried is now selling handmade jewelry on Etsy.

Microsoft's subtle art of browser conversion therapy. "Oh no, something vague and unspecified happened to your browser settings! Guess you're using Edge now." The digital equivalent of your grandma replacing your coffee with decaf and insisting it's for your own good. Every Windows update is just Microsoft finding new creative ways to make Edge happen. It's like watching someone try to make fetch happen, but with billions in marketing budget.

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Remember installing software in the 90s? That "Next, Next, Next" ritual felt like a mystical journey guided by some all-powerful wizard who could either bless your PC with working software or curse it with toolbars and bloatware. Back then, clicking the wrong option meant summoning demons into your registry. And God help you if you accidentally declined the license agreement – that wizard would banish you back to the beginning faster than you could say "dial-up." Now I just type npm install and pray to the dependency gods instead.