Another Microsoft favourite bites the dust

I thought I had put off any Microsoft updates for 5 weeks, but the updates happened last night. Maybe it was 5 weeks

It proudly announced that it updated itself and had five things to show me I don't think any of them were particularly new and/or exciting. They just wanted me to let them access my settings which I decided wasn't a good idea. The one thing I did immediately notice was that my phone link had a big message at the top and it wanted me to read the QR code on the screen. I had gotten used to using Phone Link and liked it.

Not unexpected, I had also updated my Android phone (I had trouble recharging my 7-year-old phone battery) and perhaps thought it was to do with a setting on the new Android phone. I did use Android Switch which worked quite well, and transferred most things. There were a few inputs required, I had to re-establish some connections with passwords etc. However the transfer was very smooth.

I aimed my camera at the QR code and clicked on the link, which took me to the site aka.ms (which is where you download the phone link segment for your phone), BUT, and it's a big but, it was a blank screen, so I tried again, investigated what response I could get, waited a while, then tried again and again. I could see from the display on my laptop it was still pointing to my old phone so I went and found it and made sure it was turned off. I went back to my phone and just typed in the address aka.ms to get to that URL. The phone seemed to think for a little while and then came up with a big red warning that my phone was not suitable because it wasn't connected to a VPN, which it isn't. The message also conveniently suggested that I could use Microsoft Azure as my VPN, and again no thank you. I don't really want Microsoft snooping on my phone as well.

If you're listening, Microsoft my trust in you is diminishing everyday