Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

[froggyboy604]

Microsoft has advised customers that offensive language on Skype, in an Outlook.com email, or in an Office 365 Word document is a potentially account-closing offense under its updated terms of use.

The tweaked services agreement, which comes into effect on May 1, 2018, now includes the following code-of-conduct item:

Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity).

What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

I think it is a good idea to subscribe to a paid e-mail service or use your own server, and use your own domain name.

I think it is now a good time to use a free opensource office suite software which does not use the internet like Office 365, and its license is not connected to the internet where it can be deactivated for breaking the rules.

 

[Dark Young Link]

Wait, you can't swear in a word document? Am I understanding this correctly? I mean, the whole thing is stupid, but most word documents don't even see the light of day.

 

[froggyboy604]

Wait, you can't swear in a word document? Am I understanding this correctly? I mean, the whole thing is stupid, but most word documents don't even see the light of day.

Office 365 is the online website version of MS Office. Office 365 is also an online storage service which uses OneDrive which is Microsoft online storage service. It is possible to setup Office 365 documents to be view-able by anyone with the website link to the MS Office 365 document sort of like how you can setup your Google Drive, and Dropbox files to be downloaded and shared online with anyone with the link to the file.

I think it is best not to swear in a Word Document if you don't want your MS Office license banned for using Word to create documents which has swearing, and other content which is against the MS terms of service.

 

[Marc]

Can you swear on Discord? lol.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Can you swear on Discord? lol.

We can try

Hopefully MS doesn't somehow police this on personal documents on a person's PC, if so that is going to be opening a huge can of worms they don't want to be dealing with.

 

[froggyboy604]

We can try

Hopefully MS doesn't somehow police this on personal documents on a person's PC, if so that is going to be opening a huge can of worms they don't want to be dealing with.

I think a lot of store bought Windows computer come with a trial version offline version Office 365 which can be used offline. The regular non-365 MS Office version of MS Word should be fine as long as you don't upload your document files which contains swearing, nudity, and illegal content to MS OneDrive.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

Happy New Year!
Have a really nice 1950 Microsoft folks!

 

[froggyboy604]

I think more users will go back to Windows 7, and switch to Linux if these new "banned content terms of service " is part of the Windows 10 and 8.1 terms of service.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

Windows 7's mainstream support already ended 3 years ago, and it has 2 more years for the extended support.
Regardless, Microsoft desperately tries to get everyone on Windows 10, like it or not.

Even installing Linux on more recent hardware is gradually getting harder, seeing how Microsoft keeps making sure hardware manufacturers keep blocking it.
And with nowadays quantities of PCs being manufactured, this can be quite an impossible task.

 

[froggyboy604]

Even installing Linux on more recent hardware is gradually getting harder, seeing how Microsoft keeps making sure hardware manufacturers keep blocking it.
And with nowadays quantities of PCs being manufactured, this can be quite an impossible task.

There are a few dedicated Linux compatible computer makers like System76 and Raspberry Pi sell PCs with a Linux OS like Ubunru pre-installed on it, or can be manually installed. Many Google Chromebooks, and Apple Macs can run Linux.

Shopping websites like Amazon and eBay sell Linux PCs from smaller PC brands. I think it is harder for Microsoft to block big shopping sites from blocking the sale of Linux PCs.

But, building a custom built PC or installing Linux on a newer PC built by a company like Acer, and Lenovo maybe harder because many PC parts like wifi chips and video cards are not always design to work on Linux, and there are no opensource free drivers for some hardware.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

There are a few dedicated Linux compatible computer makers like System76 and Raspberry Pi sell PCs with a Linux OS like Ubunru pre-installed on it, or can be manually installed. Many Google Chromebooks, and Apple Macs can run Linux.

Shopping websites like Amazon and eBay sell Linux PCs from smaller PC brands. I think it is harder for Microsoft to block big shopping sites from blocking the sale of Linux PCs.

But, building a custom built PC or installing Linux on a newer PC built by a company like Acer, and Lenovo maybe harder because many PC parts like wifi chips and video cards are not always design to work on Linux, and there are no opensource free drivers for some hardware.

Of course I'm aware of everything you've just said.

I run Linux on the very MacBook Pro I'm typing from, but it's far from perfect:
①　I must run Linux Kernel 4.4.x, because anything newer will crash after a few minutes of usage.
②　Grub menu is laggy as fuck.

Not sure about Chromebooks except its OS is apparently based off Fedora, but the problem with dedicated Linux PC makers is that they are notably more expensive than the more commercial PC makers, which unlike Linux PCs can be bought from all over the place.

 

[Danielx64]

I think a lot of store bought Windows computer come with a trial version offline version Office 365 which can be used offline. The regular non-365 MS Office version of MS Word should be fine as long as you don't upload your document files which contains swearing, nudity, and illegal content to MS OneDrive.

There is still standalone office that you can buy that is not connected to office 365 but you still need to head to Microsoft's site to get your install key. Havning said that, as long as you don't upload that word file you should be ok. My firewall blocks Word from accessing the internet

 

[Demon_Skeith]

There is still standalone office that you can buy that is not connected to office 365 but you still need to head to Microsoft's site to get your install key. Havning said that, as long as you don't upload that word file you should be ok. My firewall blocks Word from accessing the internet

looks like i need to play with my firewall settings.

 

[froggyboy604]

There is still standalone office that you can buy that is not connected to office 365 but you still need to head to Microsoft's site to get your install key. Havning said that, as long as you don't upload that word file you should be ok. My firewall blocks Word from accessing the internet

If you a USB flash drive to share a Office 365 Word file which contains banned content with other users like your friend. Your friend can upload the file to their One Drive, Office 365, or Outlook online account. Microsoft can figure out it is your computer which originally created the banned content when MS scans the file with MS online file scanner program on its website. MS Office most likely keep a user activity log on who created the file, and which user add new content to the file when a user add new content to the file. Office document files are more advance than text files, so they can contain user history info on who worked on the file.

Microsoft can ban a user Office 365 license key for using Office to create banned content which MS.

It is safest not to use Office 365 and MS software for creating content which is banned on Microsoft terms of service to avoid getting your Office license key banned if someone uses One Drive or Office 365 to share a banned file which you share with them.

 

[IntoxNitram]

Seems stupid. Ban people using it in an offensive way, leave the rest for people to take care of themselves.

 

[froggyboy604]

Seems stupid. Ban people using it in an offensive way, leave the rest for people to take care of themselves.

I think a user blocking feature in Skype and Xbox Live should be good enough for avoiding being trolled on Skype and Outlook.

I think companies ban users who create offensive and controversial content like violent government conspiracy theories to protect themselves from getting in trouble with stricter governments they do business in.