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by warumdarum 19 days ago
They botched the phone, thry botched AI, just overall so obsessed with themselves, they tend to forget the customers
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After some time in the industry, once you reach a certain amount of zeros in your revenue, the org mindset almost always changes from something of a survival state into messiah-mode where everything it does and produces must-be and will-be accepted as the next best thing since sliced bread, at no matter the cost.

It's a human trait, Microsoft is not immune.

An ad free, minimal notification, calm design and thus _Pro_ like in (former times) _pro_fessional signature edition OS would be too simple.

Instead we get a marketing platform. Because "growth"... whatever that means until (and after) the next bubble pops. Plus: that euphemistic /bubble/ is more like a puss and cancer ridden zombie needing constant life support. Keep the numbers high, yeah! Cheer the numbers!

Certainly has a cooperate socialist product feel too it..
Remember when they tried banning the term "Microslop". Thats the type of delusion youre dealing with.
The operating system of the company is still : "win & bulldooze" while not honestly developing USPs that would bind customers to them