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[–] 35 points 11 months ago* (15 children)

That's really unsurprising. I don't know what the MS guys are smoking but I need some urgently.

Also, has there been anything, in recent memory, that Microsoft has tried to do that was new, and has been a success?

Seems to me for the past 15 years they have just:

  • Made their existing products worse;
  • Acquired other products and destroyed them;
  • Tried new things that flopped monumentally.

We are so lucky to live in a society were the merit of one's product and company dictates their market success /s

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Azure and Teams. The former makes them waaaaaaay more money of course. Other than that it's been a trainwreck. Gamepass was relatively novel but increased the price so much as to make it unviable for most people, that's before you get into the plague of issues with it like controller compatibility, which is itself a problem of Microsoft's own making.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Also, has there been anything, in recent memory, that Microsoft has tried to do that was new, and has been a success?

    Arguably not totally new, but quite the success: lobbying for big corporate IT to use their shitty products and enforce use of them onto all users.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like that's been going on from pretty much the very start, or at the very least right after they put a chokehold on OEMs for them to put windows on desktops by default. Have they been recently pushing even harder or in newer ways I'm not aware of?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    As someone who felt forced out of a corporate IT environment due to their software hindering my workflow, I would say they have been quite successful in forcing competitors out of corporat intranets. The environment that I left ended up removing LibreOffice from the internal software catalogue, probably due to successful lobbying.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    After MS ruining a couple of products, I abandoned them. Everything they try to do is a fad. They have no innovation and quit way too fast. Google is their twin. Checkout my essay on it at my Google+ profile... oh wait, never mind.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Add to that that they've worked hard to sabotage the competition, especially Linux.

    They invested millions in a company that then magically decided that they should sue various Linux vendors and users, claiming that Linux violated its intellectual property rights, which was known bullshit. The goal was to scare companies into using Microsoft and they succeeded.

    Then there is their continuous EEE strategy, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, taking sodtware standards, "extending" those with incompatible functionalities, ensuring users will depend on those and oh, look at that, the files only work with Microsoft? Now you gotta stick with us

    They could have invested in actually making their own software better but as usual, its easier to invest in lying in advertising, or investing in sabotage than to do that.

    Fuck Microsoft. If I'd see a Microsoft office on fire I wouldn't piss on it to put it out. Now that they're working hard to kill themselves, let them.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The Todo list app they make is pretty good......can't think of anything else

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    And this fucking clown show is the reason why I can't buy an SSD for neither my desktop nor my old ThinkPad!

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    An AI Agents tab popped up in my admin panel this week. I went through the settings and was able to disable it across my org. For security purposes of course.

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