I work for Microsoft, have my personal life in Google, use Apple devices to access it and it all sucks. Truly, it's death by a thousand paper cuts. There are likely a hundred more issues like this. AdBlock stopped my Gmail for working for three days with JavaScript errors until I figured it out and added an exclusion.Īll of this happened with a single week of actual work.Three of my favorite websites lock up IE9 regularly.I've got two Microsoft Word documents that I wrote in Word that I can no longer open in Word as Word says "Those aren't Word documents.".I should get an Xbox achievement for every time I press "Clear" in the iPhone notification window.Google Chrome after version 19 or so changed the way it registers itself on Windows as the default browser and broke a half dozen apps (like Visual Studio) who look for specific registry keys that every other browser writes.Especially resizing columns in Skype on a Mac. Don't even get me started about iTunes.iPhoto is utterly unusable with more than a few thousand photos.Hundreds of useless duplicate birthdays of people I don't know. My Calendar in Windows 8 is nothing but birthdays.Final Cut Pro crashes when you scroll too fast while saving.A few days back two of the Lync instances got into a virtual fight and started a loop where they'd log each other in and out declaring "you are logged into Lync from too many places." So basically, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Don't do that." I use Microsoft Lync (corporate chat) on my Desktops, two laptops, iPhone and iPad as well as in a VM or two.Gabriel Weinberg has blogged about Gmail slowness as well. A Gmail engineer suggested that perhaps other authenticated clients (GMVault, Boomerang, or IMAP clients, etc) were getting in line and forcing synchronous access to my Gmail account. UPDATE: Yes, I know how OAuth works, I've implemented versions of the spec.Word is I should check for rogue apps with access to my Gmail via OAuth. Gmail is almost as slow as Outlook now.Where's that email I sent you? Likely stuck in my Outlook Outbox.The answer? Uninstall, reinstall, stop, start, restart. The iCloud Photo stream is supposed to show the last 1000 pictures across all my iOS devices.I don't think Microsoft Outlook has ever "shut down cleanly.".Whenever he chats me I have to back out and see which "him" it is coming from. My iMessage has one guy who chats me and the message will show up in any one of three guys with the same name.I've linked them all, but duplicates still show up. I have 4 and sometimes 5 Contacts for every one Actual Human on my iPhone. The answer? Delete and rebuild the index.
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