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
Azure has taken quite nicely
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.
Ah I thought azure was a bit older than this. My bad.
As for Teams I personally include it in the category of acquiring Skype and ruining it but you’re right, it is technically a new product that is sadly successful…
Teams is only successful by being part of the MS ecosystem. If you’re running a Windows shop, you might as well use Teams as its integrated. Why spend money on Zoom? If it weren’t under the MS umbrella it would have been over long ago.
It is.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Ouch that sounds rough. As much as I bitch and moan about Windows, I am somewhat lucky that my IT dep, who is otherwise twitchy when it comes to that, is turning a blind eye to the devs, and quite lenient when we ask for something to be added to the catalogue. Let’s hope this lasts.
it went a bit like this: until 2018, I could still use Win7 with a local admin account = install my needed tools. Then they locked down windows to the point of becoming a typewriter with email functions, and I moved to a corporate Mac, which they had not yet enough control over. Then they removed the last proper productivity tools from that (LibreOffice etc) and locked it down as well, forcing me to use a “technical device” for my actual work, and the corporate crap machine to access intranet services, while also disallowing even webmail from the self-administrated “technical device”. Meaning I had to carry two Laptops everywhere. And finally, they configured an auto-lockscreen after 5-10 minutes of inactivity on the corporate device, kinda forcing power users like me to push a key like a labrat every now and then while working on their actual work. I found a script for the Mac to keep it alive (caffeinate) but had they known they would surely have disabled it. At that point I told my boss basically “fuck this shit, I want to switch to an external contract” where I can now use my companies email, a teams guest account and a Linux system for which I am the one and only user and administrator. I feel for people who do not have this option, but even more so for the Stockholm syndrome victims who actually seem to believe that Windows enables their capabilities and is actually something you can be efficient with. Because 99% of my colleagues work way more than me to get a fraction of the work done. Poorly.
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.
I’ll read it while listening to some banging tunes one my Zune. I made the playlist using Bing, on my Windows phone, it’s so good.
Zuner or later it all comes to an end. BRB I just got a new HotMail message. :)
I still have my Hotmail account from the 90s. :)
How does it feel to be this fucking cool?
The Todo list app they make is pretty good…can’t think of anything else
The summer intern work doing some heavy lifting here.
But they just had to go and call it To Do so every time I search todo, it doesn’t come up as the first result <facepalm>
The halo series?
Started in 2001 by Bungie, under some MS branch and getting worse since 2010? I’d say that falls squarely in my second category.
I would like to correct you. Please change 15 years to 30 years.
I would love to, honest, if it weren’t for Azure, dotnet, and the Xbox for instance, which were new and wildly successful before then.
Now if I’d said “what has MS ever done apart from terrible products”, I agree, and we could even go back to the company’s inception.
And this fucking clown show is the reason why I can’t buy an SSD for neither my desktop nor my old ThinkPad!
You don’t need an SSD if all your personal and sensitive data is in the corpo approved cloud and you just ask nicely the AI agent to access it.
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.
I noticed that power automate was lumped into the agents section. So mainly went with the disable 3rd party settings. Since you know, that’s enabled by default like a bunch of other settings.
