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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by spdustin on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:38PM (#11227597)
Microsoft products are filled with references left behind by what I can only assume to be developers who were just hoping to get on a different product team after their next review.

SharePoint's virtual path for its SOAP services is "_vti_bin". VTI = Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, the makers of FrontPage and the FrontPage Server Extensions.

Then there was Groove (brought in Ray Ozzie's luggage) that was renamed SharePoint Workspace (groove.exe).

SharePoint Designer (which didn't actually have a visual designer in the 2013, and final, release) crashes when performing some operations in source files ... With an exception in the FPEDITAX.DLL (FrontPage Editor ActiveX).

Those can all almost be forgiven - they are like vestigial organs after each product evolved into something else.

Until you get to OneDrive. smh

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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by yuhong on Friday March 04, 2016 @11:15PM (#11228394)
Until recently, the Sysinternals executables was signed with a Microsoft certificate but the drivers inside Process Explorer was still signed under the old pre-acquisition certificate (I think they actually even renewed it too)!
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by bitJericho on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:51PM (#11228049)
I knew OneDrive was going to be the punchline -_- So much wasted time.
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by bbcbasic on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:55AM (#11228700)
Can you or the GP explain?
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by bitJericho on Saturday March 05, 2016 @02:12AM (#11228734)
OneDrive For Business is pretty much unusable:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2ex10y/onedrive_f...

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