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This. It's always been wild to me how tone deaf Microsoft has always been. I always read these internal emails thinking how wildly out of touch with their own u
by junon 4y ago
This. It's always been wild to me how tone deaf Microsoft has always been. I always read these internal emails thinking how wildly out of touch with their own users they are.
- SCHiM 4y agoSometimes I start edge when something does not work in firefox. Everyone knows you want your browser to be quick, snappy and use few resources. What does Edge do? It shows you a unskippable, un-closable "how-to" (as if I've never used a browser), and a make-an-account-and-sync nag. It takes a minute to click though, what a turn off! It hasn't popped up for me in a while, but it definitively happens sometimes.
- siriusfeynman 4y agoInterestingly I've had the same experience with firefox, I keep it installed as a fallback if something isn't working in chrome but every time I (infrequently) use it I have to dismiss several popups about new features and how to switch to it as my primary browser/import history etc.
- FullyFunctional 4y agoThis resonates so hard. I really wish that SW stop assuming that if they are just installed, then the user is a complete ignoramus who needs to be educated and onboarded. I (for reasons) frequently install OSes from scratch and all the boilerplate is so tedious.
- SCHiM 4y agoI think I saw this too with firefox. My memory is a little hazy on this detail, but the _critical_ difference with firefox is that ctrl+t let me open a new tab and leave the sync-a-nag alone. Edge did not allow that, and I actually hat to wait while it was "Working on it".
- trefoiled 4y agoeven worse, Mozilla has begun using startup as an opportunity to deliver VPN advertisements.
- toast0 4y agoWell, this is coming from the people who brought you the old Edge; the first browser with a input queue, so that the stop button waits until the browser engine is ready to stop it; and then all of your many other button presses play out after that. Edge as a Chrome reskin is better than that at least. But then again, so was IE.
- MBCook 4y agoMicrosoft is not, and never has been, a consumer company. They’re a business that does things for other businesses. They understand that really well. MS has had one successful consumer product: the Xbox. That seems to have been given total autonomy. And they have still screwed up a few times (Xbox One launch) by falling into old patterns. Apple was a user company under Jobs. Is still kind of is (they clearly don’t care about businesses), but not as much, and I’m getting a bit worried.
- Yoric 4y agoI have friends who worked at Microsoft Xbox. As far as I understand, they indeed work like a completely separate company from the rest of Microsoft.
- MBCook 4y agoI know it was purposefully stated that way. Gates recognized “normal Microsoft” would ruin it. And I think they still tried by trying to get it based on normal Windows at one point as opposed to something highly custom based on the same kernel.
- alexsereno 4y agoI think the real tell for Apple’s future will be who Tim Cook chooses to replace him. Financially, Apple is incredibly strong. You could argue that operations was Apple’s weakest point when Jobs left, and that Cook was the right choice to cement profitability and the ops side of the business as CEO. Now it’s time for some new product lines to cannibalize existing products and bring the company forward. If Tim picks another business / operations guy to run the company instead of a product person, I do think the product first culture and DNA Jobs left will die out over time.
- emodendroket 4y agoThe Surface is fairly successful, isn't it? At least I'm assuming they're not plugging away st a total failure after all the time still.
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