4 ms·

I have started thinking that those who now work at Microsoft are blind to its flaws by default. The classic example being Windows 10 - anyone who is actually n

I have started thinking that those who now work at Microsoft are blind to its flaws by default. The classic example being Windows 10 - anyone who is actually not blind to the fiasco of the automatic upgrades/issues around further updates [1] notices that there is a certain brutality in the way the whole thing was carried out. After installing the unwanted Windows 10 OS on probably hundreds of millions of perfectly fine Windows 7 machines, they claimed that some 300+ million computers were now running on Windows 10. [2] My guess is, less than half of those were actually desired by the end users. And a few more iterations of these botched auto-updates, and "happy Windows 10 user" is going to become an oxymoron. This episode went so much against the spirit of open source that these claims seem a little comical. It is probably true that MS had to make these choices to maximize shareholder profit, but lets just take it down a notch on the supposed openness. To those who wish to still make this 'open by default' claim, I welcome MS to open source Windows 7 and Windows XP and see if they can sustain the same kind of growth after that point [3] [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windows%2010%20update&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windows%2010%20update&sort=byP... [2] http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-300-million-active-devices-are-now-running-windows-10 http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-300-million-active-d... [3] http://www.computerworld.com/article/3054528/microsoft-windows/zombie-os-windows-xp-still-powers-181m-pcs-two-years-after-support-ends.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/3054528/microsoft-windo...

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
From what I've seen, Microsoft employees have a keen understanding of both the issues with Microsoft as well as it's past. If you are seeing complete radio silence on something, like we see with both telemetry and automatic updates, that's when you know there's a corporate policy that's been laid down that nobody's going to risk their job to speak out against. You can see this sort of thing with a lot of companies, not just Microsoft.

ocdtrekkie 10y ago

From what I've seen, Microsoft employees have a keen understanding of both the issues with Microsoft as well as it's past. If you are seeing complete radio silence on something, like we see with both telemetry and automatic updates, that's when you know there's a corporate policy that's been laid down that nobody's going to risk their job to speak out against. You can see this sort of thing with a lot of companies, not just Microsoft.