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Foolish since a world where no one uses Windows at home will ve damaging for enterprise long term.
I think they (and even Apple) are going to get a walloping from mostly ceding the education market to chromebooks. Kids are growing up using them.
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Rather than saying that microsoft bashing has ramped up, I'd say that it is getting closer to it's standard levels. Microsoft experience a sort of reputational resurgence in the tech world these past few years with some commitment to open source contribution and a really nice pivot towards linux and cloud. Their pivot to AI is much less popular!
The AI stuff and Windows 11 have been big drivers of bashing
If moaning were DLC, they'd get a monthly subscription.
I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…
I tried calling MS to report it and the guy on the other side said they didn't have a process for handling that and basically suggested I hang up.
I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…
What I find difficult to understand is the amount of effort and money that Microsoft puts towards making life painful for the B2C user; if your focus is on B2B, let the fucking user create offline accounts and let them crack the license and let them do whatever they please, as that would likely be less of a burden to you than a way to ensure market domination. You take care of the security, the UX, and availability parts and let the general public carry on with whatever it does. I am, of course, oversimplifying things here for the sake of the argument, but surely I can't be part of a tiny minority of people who see things this way.
At the end of the day, there are multiple and interconnected rational, irrational, economic, legal, social, political, strategical etc. reasons for why a company emerges as the dominant player in their respective niche, it's never down to the quality or convenience of the system alone. Microsoft stands more to lose than gain from their toxic attitude towards users, especially in the context of US playing the bully, and the EU considering disentangling itself from what is perceived a dangerous relationship that could undermine its very existence.
Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.
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It’s basically management 101. But I’ve gone through that phase and come out the other end believing that outsourcing any of the functions that aren’t commodified enough to switch at a moment’s notice is a terrible idea.
It is managment 101 to identify what makes you unique and sell that down the drain for the thing that currently makes you the most money?
Witness every company that got disrupted from existence, because the thing they were doing was more profitable.
If you cut r&d that's a saving that a manager is rewarded for. The losses down the line are borne by others.
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Another oldie "If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows" Ah, good times... :-)
I have a "quotes.txt" from slashdot days with some MS jabs in it: > Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more. > The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner. > A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine Juvenile some might say, but they st…