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Does anyone think they'll keep this up? Or back to glued disposable garbage in 3 generations?
by lallysingh 2y ago
Does anyone think they'll keep this up? Or back to glued disposable garbage in 3 generations?
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoEmbrace, Extend, Extinguish. You do the math.
- kristopolous 2y agoNadella's MSFT isn't Gates's. They haven't been a backstabbing rapscallion for many years.
- smegsicle 2y agodo people actually believe this?
- kristopolous 2y agoMaybe I'm just not aware of the evidence. The skullduggery in "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates" looks to be absent these days
- ezst 2y agoAren't they right now? All I see is similar monopolistic and anticompetitive practices pushed through different product lines.
- creshal 2y agoThey're not backstabbing, though, They're completely honest about it: You're the product, and you will be milked as hard as possible.
- jdiff 2y agoNadella's MSFT is plenty underhanded. You only have to look as far as their last two major OS versions. Last four to five if you want to count everything they did to 7-8.1 to get people on 10. But even just on 10 and 11 there's plenty of anti-user nastiness. And more is getting cooked up every day.[0] [0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-do...
- kristopolous 2y agook, how is that different from iOS, ChromeOS, macOS, or Android? I'm mostly a linux user, but the idea of having to sync with a stupid cloud account to use a commercial OS is kinda how things work these days. Don't you even have to do that dumb stuff for things like Photoshop now? If so, singling out MSFT as some egregious malcontent for this sounds more like salacious headlines
- userbinator 2y agoHow is it different? Because MS was not known for this sort of hostility. "Not acting like Google" was a feature.
- kristopolous 2y agoRight so they reverted from the exception to the norm. Tech is either leaders or followers. Everyone is doing touchscreen cars or laptops without ports or phones with a bunch of things I didn't want. It's a problem, sure, but saying HTC, Hyundai, or Microsoft, in this instance, is particularly uniquely evil for following a trend sounds pretty hyperbolic
- _carbyau_ 2y agoThey don't have to be uniquely evil for people to be allowed to call them evil. And this is MS changing the behaviour of their product over time. They didn't use to be this evil. Now they are. That's comment worthy.
- flakeoil 2y agoMSFT has never been as bad and evil as they are now. Ads everywhere as just one example and they base their ads on your conversations in their messaging apps.
- nottorp 2y agoYeah right. They may not be strong arming OEMs any more, so they spy on their users and force upgrade them now. I get a full screen ad for windows 11 on my windows 10 pc at least once per week when i boot. With the mouse conveniently positioned on 'upgrade now'. And say, is anyone sure they stopped strong arming OEMs?
- g15jv2dp 2y agoIf they want to keep selling in the EU, they better keep it up...