I bet other ransomware creators hate this. If victims can’t even get their data back by paying, more victims will stop paying across the board.

I had a website not let me enter a proton.me email address, when I changed it to my custom.fyi address, it worked fine. They wanted a three letter TLD.

If I asked this question during an interview and the candidate gave me this list of assumptions, I would recommend the candidate. This is exactly what I would be looking for by asking a vague question, not if they memorized the answer to a bunch of riddles, but how they thought and what their line of thought was for troubleshooting the answer.

As other people mentioned, things like the decimal structure works well, but you can also just use an int to store how many pennies something costs and convert it to dollars for display.

I remember once someone made DOOM but every time you killed an enemy it would kill -9 a random process.

This is a problem with more than just Microsoft. Any software (game, application, library, whatever) that has had many years of updates some of which are breaking, will have this problem with docs.

Oh you are using version 5.5.24 of xyzlib? All these docs are a mixture of stuff when 4.2.57 was out and stuff someone tried to update when 7.5.14 released.

I HATE that windows will sort folders at the top instead of alphabetically with everything else. I guess it comes from using a Mac for so long.

I agree about .DS_Store in any mixed os environment though.

I feel like it is news because when Microsoft first announced the docx formats it was supposed to be a more open format compared to the binary ones of the past, but in the end they are back to their old tricks.

The docx and xlsx formats are still soo much better than it was during the Word Perfect days. You had to pay so much attention to which version of each program you were using to transfer a file.