Since last year? Burning themselves into the ground has been their M.O. for the last decade and a half, at least.
I'd argue enshitification started in earnest with Windows 8.
AI just enables them to speed up the process dramatically.
Microsoft would be such an easy fix to get back on the right path, but Nadella is not going to do that, and nobody is going to make you or me the CEO.
Why treat workers right, properly resource teams, and build quality stuff on a roadmap that looks beyond the next quarter when you can just treat your workers, product and customers as if they're all disposable trash.
Basically the standard Fortune 500 playbook with few exceptions.
>...but Nadella is not going to do that, and nobody is going to make you or me the CEO.
That's a good thing. When they eventually fail completely and sell their assets, it'll be a source of cheap datacenters for the competition—at least assuming demand eventually chills out.
Because capitalism is a fact, and actually trying to build the best possible products for your users will give you a market-leading position which your greedy competition can't defeat, and which will give you the most profit as a result. Big CEOs and shareholders still don't get this.
Microsoft has a foothold in the market, and they may feel impossible to defeat, but they're not. If this is their attitude, they will lose.
> That's a good thing. When they eventually fail completely and sell their assets, it'll be a source of cheap datacenters for the competition—at least assuming demand eventually chills out.
If they continue like this, yes. But if they just get their act together, it would be a win-win for everyone. The company isn't doomed, other than by its own active doing.
10 and 11 are the evil shit. 11 especially so.
11 LTSC is heaps better than consumer editions but it’s still shite.
The second anticheat embraces Linux windows is deadskies.
Said similar thing to the ladybird browser a while ago — I’d prefer it NOT support some features.