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At the same time more people have never been more ready to move on from windows, I don’t want A.I. jammed into every nook and crany just the sake of raising sto
by archerx 2y ago
At the same time more people have never been more ready to move on from windows, I don’t want A.I. jammed into every nook and crany just the sake of raising stock prices. I want to use A.I. When I want and not have it constantly pushed in my face.
- wdh505 2y agoI read the last sentence as "ai constantly punched in my face"
- SeanAnderson 2y agoFortunately Operating Systems is only 10% of MSFTs revenue. I'm sure MSFT cares about getting money out of Windows, but it's not really do-or-die. I think that's kind of why it feels like the OS is languishing - MSFT has found lots of other ways to monetize.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoWindows is the base that they use to get buy in on all their other products though. If everyone was on linux why not switch to google workspace at a third the cost?
- SeanAnderson 2y agoYou're not wrong. It would be more challenging, but I think the bundle of services Microsoft offers to companies is easy to get entrenched into? If you get some Azure credits for using their stuff then maybe you don't want to deal with egress fees. Maybe you get LinkedIn Premium for free for all your in-house recruiters. Microsoft Teams isn't great, but at least it comes free instead of paying a ton to run your organization on Slack, etc.
- throwAGIway 2y agoGoogle Workspace is not comparable. Every large enterprise seems to run on Mac and MS 365.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoI mean theyre definitely comparable. I agree office sees wider use but worse decisions have been made to save however many millions large corporations are spending here. I think you need to get out of tech if you think every large enterprise runs on mac
- throwAGIway 2y agoNo, the enterprise features of Azure AD, InTune etc really are not comparable. A large enterprise can't run on Google. Sure - smaller firms can and maybe should, it's much simpler.
- HDThoreaun 2y ago2 of the 5 companies Ive worked for have been on google workspaces. Both fortune 500 companies
- throwAGIway 2y agoInteresting... I worked for a much smaller company that used it and it was a terrible experience. I was really glad to go back to Teams...
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoI've never worked at an enterprise primarily (or even significantly) using mac computers. Are you in creative arts? Many digital art software only run on Mac.
- throwAGIway 2y agoSoftware engineering. Never had to be forced to a Windows computer, fortunately. Past 5 years mostly everyone seems to have switched.
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- tallanvor 2y agoA third of the cost? Their lowest tiers start at the same price, and pricing is similar at least up until the enterprise tiers, at which point pricing isn't transparent for either company.
- archerx 2y agoOffice sucks, Azure sucks, Windows sucks, xbox sucks and etc. Everything modern microsoft touches turns to crap. The only good thing they have is VScode and even that is getting bloated.
- vletal 2y agoI'm in my 30' so I remember office 97 and 2000. I still believe that was the peak of their UX.
- DeathArrow 2y ago>Office sucks, Azure sucks, Windows sucks, xbox sucks and etc. Everything modern microsoft touches turns to crap. That might be true, but judging from desktop OS market share, what the competition is doing, sucks more.
- chii 2y agolinux is more usable today than ever before. The only chokehold that microsoft have on windows is legacy business apps, and office (and various compliance requirements for gov't software that opensource tend not to have, like FEDRAMP). MacOS is gaining ground, but because their hardware is legitimately superior. I imagine commodity laptops to be a dying breed in a few more years. Gaming on a windows PC is the last bastion that macs tend not to compete in at all, and on that front there's SteamOS. Microsoft signed their own OS death warrant when they switched from being backward-compatibility oriented way back in the Vista days. It might take another 2 decades for it all to play out, but from what i can see, it's one straight road down to obsoletion.
- tonynator 2y agoIt's all forward looking with MacOS and Linux. Windows is the only OS that can do everything anyone asks of it right now, which is in my book what a computer should do. If games work via Proton/Wine they will have worse performance. Many do not work at all due to requiring anticheat. Windows, as a certain group loves to say, just works.
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- jstummbillig 2y agoNobody want's that – it happens, as part of a trade-off to improve rapidly and dial it in early into something that's good, before it is so good, that absolutely everyone will want/need it.
- okasaki 2y ago1. Nobody chooses Microsoft - it's rammed down their throats by corp IT or gaming addiction. 2. Alternatives are $3000 macs with 1% of the ecosystem, or an enthusiast OS that doesn't work with the most popular graphics card vendor and constantly breaks.
- matsz 2y agoSteamOS (via Steam Deck) is surprisingly amazing for gaming. Most of the titles I tried worked perfectly fine without any configuration changes. I haven't felt the need to use Windows for years now thanks to this.
- csomar 2y ago> enthusiast OS that doesn't work with the most popular graphics card vendor It's not exactly there yet (especially that you need some technical knowledge to troubleshoot stuff). But I am getting similar performance playing games on Linux that I would be getting on Windows.
- dyauspitr 2y agoThe consumer never knows what they want. That being said, I would hate an always on AI always watching my actions and phoning back home to Microsoft.
- k8sToGo 2y agoThat's right. Just got a new Macbook Pro for myself last week. Couldn't be happier. My Windows PC has been downgraded to a pure gaming appliance and now is kind of collecting dust.
- simonebrunozzi 2y agoWatch the next few years as people move away from Microsoft and embrace Apple. Lesser of two evils.
- elorant 2y agoThanks but no thanks. I want to choose the hardware myself. I also want hardware that is upgradable if my needs change after a while. Linux is the way for moving off Windows.
- bakuninsbart 2y agoFor notebooks I find apple to deliver exactly what I need, at superior quality. I don't really like the os that much compared to Linux distros, but everything just works 99.9% of the time, which is a major plus when trying to deliver good software and make a good impression at work. My 8 year old MacBook still works without major issues despite being wrought through the wringer, which is impressive. For desktop I agree with you, being able to easily modify individual parts is a major boon, and modern Linux distros offer everything one might want if one is willing to tinker a little bit.
- baxtr 2y agoI’m an Apple fanboy, big time. At the same time I find categories like “god” and “evil” difficult when used in the context of corporates. Maybe Apple can be described as more honest. They sell you extremely expensive hardware so that they don’t need your data to be monetized. I think that’s a fair deal.
- pietro72ohboy 2y agoDon't assume they will never double-dip. The AppStore has ads inspite of Apple being a more "premium" platform.
- baxtr 2y agoYeah sure. They might break their end of the deal. But it will have consequences.
- _giorgio_ 2y agoApple is going to use on every device chatGPT by openAI (effectively Microsoft). So good luck with your battle.
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