That is spot on. Usually you would expect the manual to be hit and miss when it comes to troubleshooting but Microsoft is consistently miss, skipping the important parts and details.

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 20 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Microsofts documentation is also increasingly just outright wrong:

if you spend enough time looking up things about their newer products like M365, defender, or azure, especially when it comes to scripting related to those, there's a ton of simply outdated info on the official docs that makes it really difficult to figure out why your setup isn't doing what it's supposed to.

from changed variable names, to missing functions, to unexplained buttons, etc., etc.

the newer docs are straight up trash!

you're better off searching around for forum posts or whatever, than using the official docs...

[–] eodur@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you are used to documentation like MS's, then AI responses probably look more reasonable and useful. If AI results look better than your own docs you should feel really bad.

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

this is the part that's really frustrating:

i sometimes feel forced to use chatGPT (duck.ai) to simply search for Microsoft things, because search engines only return SEO garbage with the exact same content spammed across like a million "tech tips for beginners" sites...and the docs, as established, are pretty useless...

keep in mind: i fucking hats "AI".

making me use it makes me not have anything to do with whatever you're selling.

it's getting progressively more impossible to simply use MS products, because the information you need to use them is so hidden away!

combine those two things and ta-da: that's why all my stuff at home is running linux now.

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