There is literally a front page most viral post on Imgur right now about this. Microsoft and other companies are making constant, minuscule, and terrifying changes these days. In O365 Excel? Hit a stray key? SHORTCUTS ARE ON LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR NEW SHORTCUTS Nono no please. I just want to put a number in this six month old spreadsheet.. and suddenly my Outlook reading pane text is now a different sized font than the other fonts on the screen. And before that the linespacing on my four year old .sig file decided to change itself. Just justSTOPSTOPPING ME FROM WORKING. Please. And no, that’s not a link. Now I have to remove the link. Why can’t I remove this link? It’s.. it’s just blue? Ok. Ok good. There.

I have not – until recently – ever felt so utterly derailed. Did I copy that link earlier? Was the text highlighted? Is that why it became a link? And now suddenly a pop-up to pull my attention to the ʳ ⁱ ᵇ ᵇ ᵒ ⁿ with a discolored text block that I have to approve: ‘ok’ – Why do I have to say this is ok. This is not ok.

As an instructor: Autodesk has also been doing this with Fusion360 – a very accessible 3D app btw if you want to try these things. The company has – are you ready for this? – updated software while I was in class, and students who opened Fusion right at the start of class had a different tool window for the Combine tool than everyone who opened the app after quarter past. I kid you NOT. “Yeah go up to combine now, and in that window select Join MINE DOESNT SAY THAT. what?” Eight students are using version 20.3.9.0.55 and six are still using 20.3.9.0.54 Join Tool Edition or whatever.