From the article:
Satya Nadella is burning decades of customer good will chasing the latest tech fad.
I’d disagree with hat sentiment. I’d put it as Microsoft is finally giving people the final push they needed to break the Microsoft chain they had around their ankles.
Nobody uses Microsoft products because they’re the best, they never were, they never will be. Microsoft is the VHS of the video tapes, it is as big as it is due to deception, marketing, and force. L
Let this be the obligatory “install Linux already” post, but I’m saying it as “switch everything away from US vendors to open source” as they all have turned evil and corrupt. Open source software is the only software left that can still give users what they need in a fair way.
Install Linux, setup some nextcloud instance, break that fucking Microsoft chain
And no one wants Teams either.
Yet everyone uses it.
It because it’s great, it’s the absofuckinglutely worst of the worst, but they got key players to use it, the rest is forced into it with their closed off ecosystem.
There is a reason why Microsoft web products work so much worse oninix than they do on windows, and it’s exactly what you think: sabotage. Word drops half of the text you type? Must be a Firefox issue, no? Yeah no, change the user agent to say you’re edge on windows and all of the sudden it works. Still shittily, but it works as shittily as it does on windows.
When you feel the need to sabotage your already badly working products just to force your customers to stay with you, it really does show that you’re just full of shit
Fuck Microsoft
Like Facebook chasing the metaverse pie in the sky, but now with multiple giant corporations.
When will they chase innovation with the consumers benefit being the goal, instead of finding ways to extract money from us at the highest margine possible.
Totally - the whole ‘AI is going to replace you’ is a miserable pitch to consumers. I’ll consider subscribing when they find the time to make an AI something with the goal of making my life better.
They simply won’t. They have been about getting as many businesses into their ecosystem for a while now, that’s all they care about. Pack as many “features” as possible, then extract value as much as they can.
Lots of people jizzing over Google in the last weeks. But Copilot and ChatGPT are by far and away the leaders in the space currently, both coupled to Microsoft.
Sure their own tools suck, but when wasn’t that the case in the last 15years?
I use Claude and Cursor to help program all the time, but I made the mistake of helping my wife try to use work-supplied Copilot and it was an utter failure at generating procedure documentation. After a couple hours of pissing around getting nothing useful, I fed the prompts to claude and had what she needed in a few minutes.
If this trash is what Microsoft is pinning it’s future on, they’re fucked.
any ai products really
