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What is the vision over there at Microsoft?

Often when you see this, it is because the manager most in charge oof the thing is being awarded for their team's success and not for the company's success. Does this make Microsoft look worse? Yes. Does this provide fuel for a lot of negative narratives about the company? Sure. Is it worth it? No. But, will it help this one specific team make more money and justify their leader's promotion? Yes, it will. The "vision over there" that causes this is "I will get promoted to a more senior leadership position, make more money, and retire in style."

Nobody ever got promoted for limiting the success of their own little fiefdom in defense of the greater whole.

I think it's "we'll milk all the suckers".

So still the same vision they've had since the early 90s at least

If the cows are still queuing up to be milked why change?

No it makes sense from a profit making perspective, absolutely.

In my view, that's unfair to the early versions of Windows, at least up to Win7.

Sure, they were charging a hefty sum for the OS but it was the best choice for a home and even office user. They used some dirty tactics on the business side of things but the end user was never so blatantly abused. Nowadays, they still charge for the OS but you also get all these ads shoved in your face.

Wish I could convince my non programmer friends to switch to Linux.

> Wish I could convince my non programmer friends to switch to Linux.

Why? If they're happy with Windows then how does that affect you?

Well, because they keep asking me how to log in after they forgot their password for their Live account. Or, how to keep using windows live mail, since it's been replaced by this Mail client, which is horrendous. Or, how they decided to drop support for older drivers and now, after getting Win11, they can't use their scanner.

And while trying to tackle that I am bombed with these ads, that propagate products which are expensive, or subpar or both.

I need to get the T-shirt that says "No, I will not fix your computer" :)

Just tell them you thankfully haven't used it in twenty years, so your knowledge dates to Windows 7 or whatever.

Yeah, but even when constricting this to close family of about 50 people, when you are the "computer guy", it's still difficult to do. Who can they turn to?

I mean, seriously, what is the point of changing the user experience to something completely different every 5 years or so? Even I have trouble keeping up, think of the 60, 70, 80 year olds (my father is 84, struggling using Win11, when he was fine using Win8).

MS created a user experience expectations and they abandon all of it in favor of Mac like user experience, that might be great for 20-something designers, but they throw away all their existing user base for it.

I use KDE. Still the best desktop for me (coming to Linux from Win7, not that I did not try others before actually switching).

> I need to get the T-shirt that says "No, I will not fix your computer" :)

I had one of those. Doesn't work.

There is none. Someone somewhere was given a KPI to increase their departments ad revenue by X%, so that is what they are doing, rest of the company be damned.

Money.

I mean, they bought the biggest video game publishers for like $70b or something absurd in lieu of obvious antitrust, which they lost, only to be come a bloated 3rd party publisher, and are now dropping rants about how evil Sony is for having exclusives.

They're packing minesweeper with P2W and ads? Who is in charge over there?

Don't forget closing a bunch of studios that they spent a ton of money on right after buying them, some of which made games that earned multiple GOTY awards the same year they closed.

How is there no cost for the heads of gaming over there who’s ridiculous strategy utterly failed and cost other people’s livelihoods? Definition of a ossified management layer.

outsource all the things?

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