• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    It is a cold dark night at Microsoft Headquarters. The moon is blacked out by the clouds and rain and thunder beat relentlessly against the office windows.

    The head UX engineer stares at the prompt nervously. He hesitates, his whole life has been building up to this point. He is going to control where windows is going and shape the lives of billions of people.

    “You got this,” He mumbles to himself, “you know what to do.”

    He grabs a screenshot of his desktop and types the fateful words. Make this desktop make more money

    The AI says processing…

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    2 days ago

    All they had to do is built an actually good search into explorer, they didn’t do that for 20 years and now they force this trash on us… Good thing I ditched Windows last year and soon will sell all my Microsoft shares, that company has no future or vision it’s disgusting

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      2 days ago

      MS is likely spent all thier R&D on AI, and building datacenters, they want to somehow justfiy recoup the losses from the “profitless LLM”

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    3 days ago

    The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

    Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.

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      3 days ago

      it really is wild that they’re pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase

      like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that’s literally all they have to do. and they can’t do it.

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        2 days ago

        Most public companies and governments focus entirely on short term wins with zero consideration for the future.
        Microslop is no different.

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      2 days ago

      The current version of macOS, Tahoe, is also atrocious. It’s completely unusable on a desktop, it feels like they want to make it work like an iPad.

      For the better or worse, the only good OS is now Linux.

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        2 days ago

        Well, the only piece of Apple tech I currently own is an iPad. I bought the thing through a pretty nice offer from my telco, and for a pretty specific use case, running the Affinity suite on the move without lugging my beefy laptop around.

        When I saw how they went full idiot with their glass shit for the UI (hellooo, Windows Aero), I stopped allowing updates. The fact that to reduce transparency and effects to make the thing half usable you have to go into accessibility settings says it all.

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      3 days ago

      I’m surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn’t be able to get such ludicrous ideas

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    4 days ago

    Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.