Work? That's a joke. Among the many legitimate interruptions today, Microsoft Office 365 crashed my computer. That's not new, well, the black-screen crash was new but problems with Office 365 are not. I'm trying to write a novel, more than one actually, and almost daily that process is interrupted and frustrated by problems with the Microsoft network and the Office 365 servers.
Mostly the problem is massive network delays that interfere with the functions in Word. For example, auto-save for both Word and One Note will time out and fail. I have more than once lost my local Notebooks or changes to my manuscripts or notes because the One Drive server failed to save the latest version of a document. At other times I can type an entire sentence, or more that doesn't show up in my document for sometimes more than a minute. It can be very confusing to a poor typist like me.
What happened to the promise of technology? The creators promised it would simplify our lives and improve our productivity. It hasn't. In fact, it has added a great deal of stress and frustration to our lives. The promise of the "cloud", has become a wild west of criminality for which we, the honest users, are daily punished, forced to jump through more and more security hoops. Because the digital landlords cannot control the criminals, they prefer to control us.
The fact is, the promise was a lie whispered to man by a snake in the Garden who promised that this knowledge would serve us. Instead, we have become its slaves and soon, we will be expendable.
