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This means the CEO of Microsoft does not care about product. Impossible to imagine Steve Jobs littering MacOS with ads and crap ware.

mrweasel 4y ago
There have been an increase in articles and blog posts about the sad state of the Windows desktop for the past year or so. What bothers me is that it doesn't appear that any journalists have attempted to get Microsofts take on this. It's just complaining, valid as it may be, but apparently Microsoft seems to believe that this is how it should be, and I'd really like to hear the CEO of Microsoft explain to me why a tool that's suppose to be about work and productivity now looks like a traveling carnival. Do they need to money, do they no longer see Windows as a tool for professionals?
- revelio 4y ago
  Nadella clearly doesn't care. Windows is down to about 12% of their revenue and is probably shrinking, presumably it'd be a lot lower still without the ads and upsells. It reports into the office team! People care about where the growth is: Azure grows, Windows shrinks, and so Nadella moves Microsoft's best people over to the cloud. Unfortunately it's also pretty clear that the windows team is bored, visionless and drowning in tech debt. At work we ship software to Windows and it's astounding how buggy their API is, the horrific nature of the bugs and how slowly they get fixed (or never). You get the feeling it's a retirement home atmosphere for developers over there where little gets done and nobody notices. Nadella could probably turn things around if he wanted but the plague affects Apple too, just less severely. Desktops were once the frontier and a growing business, heavily fought over, then it became mobile, then AI. People don't believe there's any juice left to squeeze in revisiting better desktop tech. Google developed three operating systems: one never made it to desktop machines even though it could have done, one was simply chrome and nothing else, and one got stuck being permanently experimental. None of them contained much in the way of new ideas except Android But this is a pity. Desktops are where work gets done, where new tech is developed. They should get more investment than they do.

mrweasel 4y ago

There have been an increase in articles and blog posts about the sad state of the Windows desktop for the past year or so. What bothers me is that it doesn't appear that any journalists have attempted to get Microsofts take on this. It's just complaining, valid as it may be, but apparently Microsoft seems to believe that this is how it should be, and I'd really like to hear the CEO of Microsoft explain to me why a tool that's suppose to be about work and productivity now looks like a traveling carnival. Do they need to money, do they no longer see Windows as a tool for professionals?

revelio 4y ago
Nadella clearly doesn't care. Windows is down to about 12% of their revenue and is probably shrinking, presumably it'd be a lot lower still without the ads and upsells. It reports into the office team! People care about where the growth is: Azure grows, Windows shrinks, and so Nadella moves Microsoft's best people over to the cloud. Unfortunately it's also pretty clear that the windows team is bored, visionless and drowning in tech debt. At work we ship software to Windows and it's astounding how buggy their API is, the horrific nature of the bugs and how slowly they get fixed (or never). You get the feeling it's a retirement home atmosphere for developers over there where little gets done and nobody notices. Nadella could probably turn things around if he wanted but the plague affects Apple too, just less severely. Desktops were once the frontier and a growing business, heavily fought over, then it became mobile, then AI. People don't believe there's any juice left to squeeze in revisiting better desktop tech. Google developed three operating systems: one never made it to desktop machines even though it could have done, one was simply chrome and nothing else, and one got stuck being permanently experimental. None of them contained much in the way of new ideas except Android But this is a pity. Desktops are where work gets done, where new tech is developed. They should get more investment than they do.