But at least there's a timestamp in the message, for when a future Outlook "improvement" removes the Date field!

As a long term Southern Cross member, I am keen to mitigate the increasingly high costs of Travel Insurance by switching off my medical cover in NZ while I'm overseas.

SC has an amazingly generous policy - allowing you 5 suspensions in 30 years - as long as they are 12 months apart.

So I sent them a heads-up - and got this:

I'm not sure if this is another we-can't-wait-to-be-helpful aspect of their corporate policy (/sarc) or bad programming.

Let's blame it on the programmer - and imagine you are writing code to set up a policy suspension.
Wouldn't you code it so you can't set a start date more than 42 days ahead ?

It's more likely to be the business analysts or product managers that specify 6 weeks than the coders.

TinyTim:

 

It's more likely to be the business analysts or product managers that specify 6 weeks than the coders.

 

As a coder, the default would be "just set the hold in place".  Would only add a time limit if requested.

Microsoft has added a new "Drafts" feature to Teams. I can't imagine why I'd need drafts in an instant messaging tool and it just takes up space, so I figured I'd right-click on it and remove it. No such luck. The item has a menu attached, but there are no items in it. I think this is the first time I've ever seen a menu with nothing in it!

Behodar:

 

Microsoft has added a new "Drafts" feature to Teams. I can't imagine why I'd need drafts in an instant messaging tool and it just takes up space, so I figured I'd right-click on it and remove it. No such luck. The item has a menu attached, but there are no items in it. I think this is the first time I've ever seen a menu with nothing in it!

 

Left clicking on an image in Teams this morning (to try and copy it) shows a menu with nothing in it. 

Behodar:

 

Microsoft has added a new "Drafts" feature to Teams. I can't imagine why I'd need drafts in an instant messaging tool and it just takes up space, so I figured I'd right-click on it and remove it. No such luck. The item has a menu attached, but there are no items in it. I think this is the first time I've ever seen a menu with nothing in it!

 

Logged in on work laptop today, after a week away... Teams... groan

cddt:

 

Left clicking on an image in Teams this morning (to try and copy it) shows a menu with nothing in it. 

 

Famous words: "It works for me."

Behodar:

 

Microsoft has added a new "Drafts" feature to Teams. I can't imagine why I'd need drafts in an instant messaging tool and it just takes up space, so I figured I'd right-click on it and remove it. No such luck. The item has a menu attached, but there are no items in it. I think this is the first time I've ever seen a menu with nothing in it!

 

I was about to post the same thing - on what planet do I need a dedicated area that takes up screen space to view all the draft IMs that I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE and are NEVER LIKELY to EVER have.

Teams has several times in the last few weeks decided to randomly do strange things in the middle of a Teams call - the extreme case was the entire Teams app just freezing forcing me to kill the process and rejoin the call. I probably logged thousands of Zoom call hours in my previous job with zero faults -- yet I can barely go a week without Teams deciding to do random stuff disrupting my call. Other things it has done include everyone just going blank for a few seconds, saying I'm still in the waiting room even though I can see on someone else's device that I've apparently already joined the call, the same thing happening to someone else, etc. Sometimes I think Teams really need to decide what it is -- is it a video calling app? a chat app? and just focus on being the best at that one function. Currently it does a whole lot of stuff really poorly indeed.

There's a new update to SQL Server Management Studio. Like with the past few updates, there's a prominent link to the release notes that does nothing when clicked. But after updating "blind", I particularly like the new feature where attempting to delete a row pops up a window with no text and a single button labelled "Yes".

This:

OMG WHY??????  Clippy flashbacks....

KiwiSurfer:

 

Teams has several times in the last few weeks decided to randomly do strange things in the middle of a Teams call - the extreme case was the entire Teams app just freezing forcing me to kill the process and rejoin the call. I probably logged thousands of Zoom call hours in my previous job with zero faults -- yet I can barely go a week without Teams deciding to do random stuff disrupting my call. Other things it has done include everyone just going blank for a few seconds, saying I'm still in the waiting room even though I can see on someone else's device that I've apparently already joined the call, the same thing happening to someone else, etc. Sometimes I think Teams really need to decide what it is -- is it a video calling app? a chat app? and just focus on being the best at that one function. Currently it does a whole lot of stuff really poorly indeed.

 

It's never going to decide it's any of those things, since it's actually a web browser masquerading as a native application. 

Thank you Microsoft for inconsistent log formatting

I have a personal iCloud email address, example@me.com. I must've mistyped it once without thinking, because Outlook keeps suggesting example@mac.com. No matter how many times I click the X next to the @mac.com address, and despite it bouncing if I try to send a message to it, Outlook still insists on suggesting the @mac.com address and never suggesting the @me.com one. Drives me bonkers.

Edit: And how about Geekzone putting links to users inside plain-text email addresses? Does that count for something? 😁

Behodar:

 

Edit: And how about Geekzone putting links to users inside plain-text email addresses? Does that count for something? 😁

 

Absolutely. Like this (actual) example from a website update years ago: replace (Telecom//Spark)

Telecom NZ = Spark NZ
Telecommunications = Sparkmunications