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Just for a single day, Gmail users were able to choose 'drop the mic' during email conversations.
"Simply reply to any email using the new 'Send + Mic Drop' button. Everyone will get your message, but that's the last you'll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won't see it."
If you used this feature, you could find the [replies] in [the] 'all mail' tab, but they would remain absent from the typical notifications. As a result, many people easily missed their mails.
Google [thought up] this prank to give you some kind of relief. If you felt [you were] being unnecessarily [...] tagged in an email, [you could say] goodbye to that email thread forever.
But, according to the claims made by a writer called Allan Pashby, he ended up losing his job, as he sent an email with [the] mic drop GIF to his boss. Pushy wasn't so lucky and his boss took offence and fired him with an angry voice mail.
The placement of the button could be held responsible for this backlash, as it sat directly next to the default Send button.
"Accidentally hit this new 'mic drop' button halfway through composing a professional email. Dying to remove this thing", wrote one user on Google's product forum.
Another user wrote, "This is horrible--just sent an email to a client with this stupid icon on it. I can't afford these stupid pranks!"
Considering the fact that it was April Fool's Day, many of these claims could be fake. However, keeping in [...] mind the possibility of some outrage, Google has removed the feature from Gmail:
"Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year. ?? Due to a bug, the MicDrop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. We're truly sorry. The feature has been turned off. If you are still seeing it, please reload your Gmail page."
Previously: Google April Fool's Gmail Button Sparks Backlash.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday April 05 2016, @05:25PM
Have you ever actually tried to use Oo's or Lo's spreadsheet? It's nearly completely worthless. If you need a spreadsheet, you need Microsoft. But I agree, NOBODY needs PowerPoint. IMO the horrible open source spreadsheets are what keeps open source out of most offices.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 05 2016, @10:00PM
Yes and was satisfied completely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Wednesday April 06 2016, @06:49AM
Boggle.
What prey tell do you do with these spreadsheets that only Excel can do?
For the record I don't use these Microsoft thingies so what I am missing out on?
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday April 06 2016, @07:39AM
Embedding them into PowerPoint.
I wish I was joking.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday April 12 2016, @08:08PM
Importing a text file as a delimited table, for one.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Wednesday April 13 2016, @08:14PM
Well now that is complete horse pucky. LibreOffice does an excellent job of dealing with CSV files. I use *that* feature all the time.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday April 15 2016, @05:35PM
Haven't tried Lo's spreadsheet, the word processor is almost identical to Oo. Does Lo understand other delimiters, like space, dash, or tab?
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience