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Expect carnage when a handful of large customers say, "Enough is enough" and jump ship.
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Azure is Microsoft's attempt to get into the market that Amazon dominates with AWS. Microsoft traditionally was a software company. Microsoft today is a desperate company trying to make money and stay relevant in a world fed up with the bull crap that they have been peddling over the years. Windows could have been so much more and better, but it's now a sold out clown show, just like XBox, just like Office, just like…
IMO it all started going downhill for Microslop with Windows Product Activation in Windows XP. That was the first shot across the bow and sign they were going to be user-hostile. Now they want to neuter the KMS server emulators.
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What does "serious" mean in this context?
competent, wishing to be competent, and not having your leadership suffer a psychotic break with reality: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...
The more Microsoft directly manages Github, the more unstable, buggy, and unreliable it will become. Why? Because that's how Microsoft rolls...
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As a society we actually generate a lots of books. Future generations wouldn’t be missing too much without the internet I think. Also, not everything is worth preserving. Easily 90% of Reddit is complete garbage
That was in 2018. I'd upgrade it now to 99.99%.
Also, keep in mind that humans are historically very bad at predicting what of their times might be of interest to future generations. As a representation of the times, even some slop content has its place.
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In the current business environment, keeping costs low is the correct way to do things, and quality is completely irrelevant.
I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious.
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producing an os with a focus on utility to end user would be a start. Even just something that makes some form of effort to give users a return on investment on their hardware. Right now, you unluck massive headroom, battery life, and stability, on a laptop by simple putting linux on it. All that despite windows enjoying better all around driver support from manufacturers. A serious company would never have allowed i…
MS's core product is and always has been Office, specifically Excel. Windows is simply the delivery method