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by renegade-otter 186 days ago
Gates cared about products deeply. This lot? They only care about the shareholder, not the customer, and we all know how that turned out for GE and Boeing. It's a long path, but it's a path of degradation.

I am pretty sure the the file explorer is "slow" because it's doing cloud sync crap in order to collect my data.
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snarfy 186 days ago
Balmer figured out the most profitable product is compliance sold to governments and other corporations. And Nadella figured out it's more profitable to lease it.
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cholantesh 186 days ago
Considering Gates was instrumental in bringing MS and OpenAI together, I think this is just greatmanning.
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renegade-otter 184 days ago
Where is this information even coming from?

https://businesschief.com/news/why-bill-gates-warned-microso...

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