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Comment by neilv | Hacker News Reader

Never ascribe to stupidity, that which has been proven to be malice.

Yeah, they delivered whatever they delivered on purpose. Sometimes I imagine MS is playingn Lemmings with their users to reach their corporate goals.

I doubt the various shitty parts of Windows (not the forced AI/whatever) is due to malice, unless you mean employees maliciously trying to destroy the company.

Hanlon’s razor applies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

I would say the malice is from management, investors, and product leads. Developers just do what they are told. Microsoft is choosing enshitification versus quality. CEO needs to pump that stock and having enterprise locked into without alternatives helps them.

I grew up with Microsoft and now you have to pay me to use their products. I would never choose their OS for product hosting. Even their embedded / IoT is trying to force a Microsoft account and push against local user.

Or are they trying to move users onto other platforms, more modern platforms that users are more comfortable paying for.

Desktops existed before punching in your credit card numbers was a common thing, that history is hard to shrug.

Xbox for gamers, mobile for everyone else and business editions of windows for the enterprise.

> Microsoft is choosing enshitification versus quality

and, unfortunately, they are not alone. Google has been doing this for years and Apple is slowly following suit.

Hanlon's Inverted Anticapitalist Razor says to never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by greed.

This

Minimum 50% of cases (in anything). Probably higher

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