Sometimes "Microsoft bashing" is justified
Microsoft bashing is a favourite pastime of many a nerd. Whether it is justified or not in many cases is debatable since M$ will never please everyone. But the point is, it is cathartic and in actual fact, good therapy because venting your frustrations at Bill Gates is much healthier than at your colleagues or family.
To my Microsoft employee friends reading this. Don’t feel all defensive – some of the very best Microsoft bashing I have ever heard comes from you guys anyway 🙂
So although sometimes the M$ bashing is completely unjustified, long shall it continue to preserve the sanity of IT professionals around the globe.
Having said that, on occasion you will hit some Microsoft induced pain that is legitimately and frustratingly dumb. By "legitimately", I mean that you cannot say "although in hindsight it was dumb, I can actually understand why they decided to do that". Instead you get caught out and experience pain and frustration simply because of a silly Microsoft oversight.
In this case, the oversight is with the SharePoint Configuration Wizard
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