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There is something about Microsoft specifically where they are just willing to leave absolutely broken systems in production and just refuse to acknowledge it o
by anm89 5y ago
There is something about Microsoft specifically where they are just willing to leave absolutely broken systems in production and just refuse to acknowledge it or care in the slightest.
Each of the FAANG members seems to have their own signature failure mode and while I don't find Microsoft to be the most unlikable they do seem to be by a wide margin the least competent.
- abraxas 5y agoIf you don't find reasons to dislike them, I and many others can tell you a few stories from the nineties that will change that.
- boppo1 5y agoPlease share. I'm in my 20s and vaguely remember hate for MS when I was a kid on PC gaming forums. Now though, Google and FB are the evil ones everyone talks about.
- abraxas 5y agoFirst they fucked over Netscape to the point where they went out of business by messing with Win32 APIs to the point of making it unusable. Then pimped and pushed Internet Explorer down everyone's throats. Then they tried to embrace and extended THE WHOLE INTERNET with their proprietary ActiveX components. We literally came within an inch of having the internet controlled by a single company.
- dghlsakjg 5y agoThey really put the M in FAANG!
- gruez 5y agoWell there's another acronym that includes them. Unfortunately it's rather vulgar so I'll list out the letters in alphabetical order: AAFGMN.
- jffry 5y agoWhat about FANMAG is vulgar?
- arthurcolle 5y agoClose but no cigar.
- unscaled 5y agoGAFAM is the one usually used for Big Tech, replacing Netflix with Microsoft. Netflix is not nearly as big as the rest of the group in terms of market cap, but the FAANG term was coined in 2013, in the Ballmer days, when Microsoft was far less cool. The stock hasn't seen considerable growth for over a decade and Microsoft was slowly bleeding away market share on every conceivable front. The company was far from dead, but it wasn't considered a tech leader anymore.