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Wow! Did not realise people hate/distrust Microsoft so much! Balmer’s Microsoft - sure, but I thought that under the current administration, they were seen as
by __sr__ 8y ago
Wow! Did not realise people hate/distrust Microsoft so much! Balmer’s Microsoft - sure, but I thought that under the current administration, they were seen as a lot more friendly company.
- akerro 8y agoWe hate it even more after recent changes on LinkedIn.
- __sr__ 8y agoCan you elaborate? Among the giants (Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft), I’d like to think Microsoft is the 4th on the least trustworthy scale - right ahead of Apple, and behind the other three.
- akerro 8y agoRecent changes in UI and functionality made it made LinkedIn look like "we're worse facebook with more forced ads". Even reddit is not better place to find a new job and learn career-related things. I logged in there last week to be bombed with ads about "New Shiny Things In Java 8" or "Learn What's New In Java 9", well... Java8 will be out of support in September (it's LTS) and Java9 is already deprecated and not supported. I just logged in while writing this comment and there are 3 videos with sound with autoplay, one of them is "Trending for: Software Developer - Basics of C++". Seriously? 3 videos with sound at the same time while I'm only scrolling?
- casebash 8y agoWhat changes?
- filomeno 8y agoWell, for me this new Microsoft is even worse than Ballmer's Microsoft. Because their strategy and goals are the same, but they changed their PR to make people think otherwise.
- ino 8y agoAnd windows really went downhill after 7.
- koffiezet 8y agoThe largest part of their strategy and goals that is the same is "make money". But to say there is no improvement or that it's even worse is just silly. There is little to no hostility anymore to open-source, and they're contributing quite a bit...
- blackbrokkoli 8y agoAs long as I'm still greeted by Candy Crush im my start menu after every forced update, I will not consider their products tools for serious workflow!
- __sr__ 8y agoYeah -- that is a bummer. It may have been acceptable if the OS were free, but not when you paid the full price for the license.
- mortehu 8y agoFor those who haven't tried MS Windows recently, it now comes with tons of ads you have to opt out of. The settings to opt out are scattered around and unclear ("pipe up thoughts", "show suggestions", "show me what's new"): https://www.howtogeek.com/269331/how-to-disable-all-of-windows-10s-built-in-advertising/ https://www.howtogeek.com/269331/how-to-disable-all-of-windo...
- __sr__ 8y agoThey should be opt-in, not opt out. And opting-in should come with some benefits. For example, you can get Kindle cheaper if you can live with ads. I can, kind of, understand ads if the OS were free. But someone who bought the OS for full price shouldn't have to deal with them.
- singularity2001 8y agoYou never heard of the outrageous Windows 10 telemetry (and similar)?
- __sr__ 8y agoI did -- but IMO it is less outrageous (but outrageous nonetheless) than what the top three (Google, Amazon, Facebook) are doing. And there is always a certain amount of risk when you putting your data on someone else's servers. Just to be clear, I use Windows only when I have to -- never by choice. That said, my point is that even if Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub turns out to be a bad thing, I'd wait to see how things go before migrating en masse.