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I really don't understand Microsoft. They work on VScode, Visual Studio, WSL and other product for developers and then they try as hard as they can to push them
by mrweasel 3y ago
I really don't understand Microsoft. They work on VScode, Visual Studio, WSL and other product for developers and then they try as hard as they can to push them of the Windows platform with Candy Crush, spyware and a browser nobody asked for.
Microsoft wanting their own browser is understandable, but why not just make a good and secure browser? Same with Windows, why not provide a secure and private platform that people would actually want to use? Presumably they don't care, they also have enough money, so I guess they don't really have to.
- soundnote 3y agoMicrosoft has a growing ads business, and it's the ads division in charge of Windows and Edge nowadays, as far as I understand. The dev tools are for internal use and B2B, so the motivation is different.
- Drakim 3y agoMicrosoft is a big company with a lot of different groups of developers, I bet a lot of them think this stuff is really dumb.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoNo company can survive bad management. One shitty exec that says to do X. Everyone has to follow and the results speak for themselves. I wonder though, for public companies, do employees not have the obligation to refuse certain demands in order to protect the shareholders?
- mrweasel 3y ago> do employees not have the obligation to refuse certain demands in order to protect the shareholders? That might actually be the problem. Public companies may have an obligation to protect shareholder investment/returns, forcing a focus on near future profit. So you stuff in ads and tracking, because that will yield a "positive" result with the next quarter or two.