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> Microsoft needs to get their brand straight and decide, once and for all, what they stand for. They stand for weary resignation. Same as Google and Amazon.
by grey_earthling 3y ago
> Microsoft needs to get their brand straight and decide, once and for all, what they stand for.
They stand for weary resignation. Same as Google and Amazon.
For most people, they're just there, and you can't not use them, so what can you do?
They can be as dodgy as they like, because when you point out what they're doing, most people will just be confused about why you're complaining, because you may as well be railing against the fact that rain is wet.
- jmartrican 3y agoAdd Adobe to that list.
- staunton 3y agoAdd every single big company in the world to that list.
- trinsic2 3y agoLOL, you are so right on that, average users do not understands the issues at hand about this, we need some kind of movement that better explains the issue.
- rtsil 3y agoAnd yet average users fled IE en masse as soon as they had a (back then) good alternative. There is still hope!
- grey_earthling 3y agoI'm not sure they fled IE as such. They saw a link (advert) on Google that said “make your internet better” and they clicked it. Yes, some techies actively chose Chrome knowing full-well what the alternatives were, but I'm pretty sure the advertising produced much greater numbers. (Also, the techies who enthusiastically recommended Chrome were the same ones who enthusiastically recommended Twitter a few years later, and are now enthusiastically recommending Signal — which illustrates the quality of their judgement when it comes to monopolies.)
- screamin_jesus 3y agoTechies enthusiastically recommended chrome because it was by far the most stable and responsive and secure browser. Prior to quantum, firefox was a dog, and let's not talk about internet explorer...