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did their reputation ever change from being a company that produces mostly bad quality unreliable software, that is only ever purchased by someone that wion't h
by reaperducer 3y ago
did their reputation ever change from being a company that produces mostly bad quality unreliable software, that is only ever purchased by someone that wion't have to use it on a daily basis?
Yes. Especially on HN.
Microsoft used its video game systems and Linux flirtations as Trojan horses to convince a generation of tech-centric people that the bad old Microsoft of yore is just something that old people worry about and that today MS is all rainbows and unicorns.
HN is full of people willing to fall in their swords for MS because they weren't around for its last round of despicable behavior, and bringing it up just means you're out of touch.
- consumer451 3y agoVSCode seems like a biggie as well.
- jodrellblank 3y agoMicrosoft don't make tens of billions of dollars in revenue every quarter by "convincing people of rainbows and unicorns". Azure didn't pass $100Bn in annual revenue in 2022 by "Trojan horses". > "HN is full of people willing to fall in their swords for MS because they weren't around for its last round of despicable behavior" When was this last round? Is HN full of 20 year olds? Microsoft is really popular with the youth of today? That's nearly halfway back to when Microsoft was founded.