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Remember back when Nadella took over Microsoft. HN was all over it like the second coming of Jesus. I complained that it doesn't change the organisation and thi
by baz00 3y ago
Remember back when Nadella took over Microsoft. HN was all over it like the second coming of Jesus. I complained that it doesn't change the organisation and this is just marketing. I was completely right. I remember being downvoted over and over again suggesting this is the end game of the takeover and the push that was promoted.
Microsoft wants to be a subscription company and will try and funnel you down any route to keep that revenue. Shareholders and management are driving this because the platform was the product and the product is worth absolutely fuck all at the end of the day. Ergo now it's a subscription delivery mechanism for Office, OneDrive and Edge etc which are all data gathering mechanisms themselves.
- egeozcan 3y agoBeing downvoted doesn't necessarily mean you're wrong, it can also mean that people just didn't like what you wrote. In the light of some positive news, keeping the same negative attitude towards an entity may invoke dislike. If later it becomes clear that you were right doesn't make that first reaction unjustified. Being downvoted is for me usually an urge to rethink how I'm saying things rather than what I'm saying, although, as always, YMMV.
- coffeeling 3y agoI mean, you were wrong and he was the second coming of Jesus in many ways. The Microsoft of today isn't the Microsoft of yesteryear. It just doesn't change the fact that they're in the advertising business, and that the advertising business is really lucrative so they started pushing for it hardcore.