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The reputation they have of being the makers of the most popular desktop operating system and most popular office productivity suite. You may not like them but
by parsimo2010 5y ago
The reputation they have of being the makers of the most popular desktop operating system and most popular office productivity suite. You may not like them but most of the businesses in the world use their software. I can’t believe they think it’s worth it to harm their professional image in exchange for whatever pennies they will be making by sticking in a layaway feature into their browser.
- colesantiago 5y agoAre you being forced to use it?
- ratww 5y agoI’m not forced anymore because I work at a nice company, but in several jobs I had before: yes. I was forced to use a specific OS, and a specific browser. It is still extremely common in enterprise. And before you say I “should have changed jobs“: not everyone is a developer who can easily job-hop like me, though.
- colesantiago 5y agoSo you're being forced to 'By now pay later' by Microsoft?
- parsimo2010 5y agoNo, but the question was about Microsoft’s reputation. Whether I use the pay over time feature or not, Microsoft are hurting their reputation as a software maker and therefore their revenue from their paid products by signaling their willingness to insert irrelevant features into their software.
- tentacleuno 5y ago> Microsoft are hurting their reputation as a software maker and therefore their revenue from their paid products by signaling their willingness to insert irrelevant features into their software. If you're not aware, the latest Office also has LinkedIn integration. Pretty much what I'd class as an irrelevant feature. This is nothing new.
- colesantiago 5y agoOK, so you're not being forced to use it which means you have the choice to ignore it so it's not required.
- s5fs 5y ago.....yes.
- tdeck 5y agoThey'll still be the most popular of both of those things. I think what the parent commenter is getting at is that Microsoft already had a reputation for being greedy and forcing unwanted features onto users. It would be more accurate to say this jeopardizes their ongoing attempt to rehabilitate their image.
- alerighi 5y agoThey don't care about reputation. Nearly every Windows user hates Windows, everyone knows that Windows it's a bad operating system, still it is the operating system that everyone uses for the fact that comes installed on every computer that you purchase and most people doesn't even know than an alternative exists.
- evilos 5y agoMost people don't even think about their operating system. HN is so far from the general public in terms of preference and mindshare and it is important to remember that.
- scantron4 5y agoI doubt most people hate windows 10.
- lenkite 5y agoI don't hate Windows 10. Neither does my extended family, nor peer group - who all use Windows. We always disable the telemetry stuff though and it works just fantastic.
- simooooo 5y agoI think you might be projecting
- thiht 5y ago> Nearly every Windows user hates Windows, everyone knows that Windows it's a bad operating system Maybe you have some data we don’t but that’s probably wrong. Also I think Windows 10 is very good, so that « everyone » is wrong.