Matisyahu's Blog

Today was a busy day. I had a wonderful sleep last night after having a bit of a shocker of a sleep from Sunday night – 5 hours of sleep vs a solid 10 hours of sleep. I woke up this morning with the sound of mum telling me that we had dinner tonight and wanted to know whether I wanted to go grocery shopping – I decided I needed to pick up a few bits and pieces along with buying a new pair of running shoes because my old ones are complete had it but keeping in mind that I’ve walked over 2800km since the beginning of the year with those shoes not to mention wearing them out quicker due to my heavier weight at the beginning of the year.

After getting the phone call from mum I then got a phone call from Microsoft to get the 2FA sorted out and this time I didn’t trust Microsoft Authenticator but instead I not only set it up on Google Authenticator but also set it up on my browser extension and then backed up the file so that if I had to manually recreate it I wouldn’t be locked out again along with adding my phone number to the account as alternative back up along with an email address. Yeah, I’m making sure that it doesn’t go pear shaped this time by ensuring that all my bases are covered.

Now that I have gotten my Microsoft 365 account sorted out the big question is whether I should move from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 for not just email but cloud storage etc. which would become my main account for everything stored in the cloud and then having my outlook.com one for when I want to setup Phone Link to my laptop (and in the future my desktop) and use my gmail.com email address for my phone and Google TV device.

Tonight I gave it a try and what a mess it is – Microsoft truly make something, that should be relatively easy to configure, into a complete nightmare. It is amazing how easy Google make setting up Workspace – a few clicks and everything is working. In the case of Microsoft, I signed in, bought a product, assigned it to the user, opened up outlook.com and it complained about a licence not being assigned, so I tried again, I then set up my administrator to the onmicrosoft.com domain, unassigned the licece, then created a new user then assigned the licence to that – exact same error message again. Life is too short to have to deal with the incompetence of a multibillion dollar organisation who cannot seem to get things working smoothly so why I should I rase my blood pressure and getting frustrated when I can stick with what I know works.