Yesterday I found a link on a MS document that went via a protection.outlook.com redirect, and another link on the same page linked to itself
This is just a trick to hide that the documentation is terrible and useless. If we get to a “this content doesn’t exist” then we think that there is an answer to our question, we just can’t find it. We eventually give up, blaming ourself for not finding it; instead of finding and getting something stupid and not useful.
They can't conceive of anyone coming to a page from anywhere other than an internal recently generated page :(
And Oracle as well. Good luck trying to find old software and/or documentation links that don't 404.
Old software? It's difficult enough to find documentation on the current Oracle database. You only get random versions through a search engine, and can neither navigate into a different one, nor replace the version on the URL and get to a functioning page. Also, you can't start from the top and try to follow the table of contents because it's completely different.