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Post by rsynnott » Sun, May 03, 2026, 1:17 AM UTC

registeredcorn wrote: post #345

rsynnott wrote: post #26

One fascinating thing about the whole AI phenomenon is how incredibly hostile it is to _standards_. Whether something works properly, or is ethical, or is true, no longer matters at all; all that matters is "pls use our AI". Microsoft spent literal decades rehabilitating their reputation. And then set fire to the whole thing in an offering to their robot gods. And it's not just them. There was a time that Google care…

What did Command+G do in OSX? Online results are saying it "advances to the next search result after doing find". In other OS', that's just the enter key, if I am understanding the context correctly.

Post by ninjalanternshk » Sun, May 03, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

Demiurge wrote: post #290

ninjalanternshk wrote: post #270

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Before 2010 or so, “serious” internet developers wouldn’t touch Microsoft stuff — Microsoft was for office memos and poorly structured spreadsheets and that was it. So yeah, Azure being a real option at the highest levels of internet-scale operations is a turnaround from where they were.

That’s not an accurate take. Microsoft has had a monopoly on the PC desktop OS. Anyone writing applications for users was targeting Windows and using Microsoft. To call most of these developers “not serious” is quite and overstatement. This includes all PC game developers, DAW, CAD, Adobe…? Azure expanded the Microsoft franchise, and provides another prong to their whole integration story just like cloud AD services…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 03, 2026, 1:20 AM UTC

b00ty4breakfast wrote: post #279

justinclift wrote: post #242

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"accept" is such a weird word for this, though I don't know of a better one in English. What we seem to be experiencing is a combination of monopoly power/abuse, and regulatory/government/court capture to keep it in place.

if internet comments are any kind of indication (which they very well may not be) I've seen lots of people complaining about win11 but remaining because they can't give up playing their favorite online hero shooter. That's acceptance to me

Post by estimator7292 » Sun, May 03, 2026, 1:21 AM UTC

artyom wrote: post #300

ninjagoo wrote: post #280

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The very young do not always do as they are told. If one hasn't been personally betrayed yet, it is easy to minimize or ignore the warnings of others who have been through the predatory/anticompetitive, EEE, stack ranking, etc. eras of MS.

I agree with you in very general terms, but I'm not sure you can reach the level of "market share" VSCode has had the last few years with just the very young .

Post by bsuvc » Sun, May 03, 2026, 1:22 AM UTC