Microsoft Campus Library Closes

At this point Microsoft is too far down a one-way street, so anything that can speed up their descent into irrelevance is great in my book.

Microsoft yearns to be a tasteless shell that does nothing but sell barely-functional M365 subscriptions and Azure to businesses. Let’s just let them do that, and stop pretending that they’re doing anything interesting or worthy of prestige.

Microslop continues to destroy anything and everything under their domain.

Libraries at the office that serve as definitive truth for relevant information?

Nah books are lame.

Office Suite?

Too logical. Let's just rename it to Copilot.

Windows updates that work?

Yeah right.

And the list goes on and on.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636302

This seems like another sad indicator that Microsoft has deteriorated from the company it used to be.

Though Steve Jobs infamously closed the Apple Library (which had existed since 1981) after he returned in 1997:

> “Who uses all of this?” asked Steve.

> Monica answered, “The engineers use this to do research.”

> Steve’s response: “They should know all that already.”

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> Word spread throughout Apple that the library was closing. Employees were outraged, but an email campaign to save the library proved hopeless. Condolences came in from Microsoft’s library staff, and flowers and thank you notes were left outside of the locked doors by employees.

https://annamancini.substack.com/p/how-the-apple-archive-end...