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What? COM is what made Windows great. Without it, it'll be just another shitty OS with a shitty DE, and you may as well just use Linux by that point.
by bitwize 2y ago
What? COM is what made Windows great. Without it, it'll be just another shitty OS with a shitty DE, and you may as well just use Linux by that point.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoCOM doesn't work on the Web. They prefer to burn away the power features (like S/MIME in Outlook!) and release a strictly inferior, slower product, for the sake of... ... honestly I don't know what. It makes zero sense - it's pissing off corporate users, who are already captive. I'm guessing hidden inflation strikes again - they can't afford maintaining two versions, so they prefer to go with the worse one.
- p_ing 2y agoThree version on the desktop. Web, macOS, and Windows. They're all unifying to the same interface, macOS mostly being there already.
- tiahura 2y agofor the sake of monthly subs
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThat's the thing though: full-featured desktop software is already good enough at keeping people to their monthly subs, especially in enterprise contexts where there's no option for pirating it. Dragging the desktop versions down to the lowest common denominator of the web does not help drive more subscriptions; it's a miracle of vendor lock-in that it doesn't cause mass cancellations of existing ones.
- bitwize 2y agoPretty much. Satya's Microsoft has pivoted to a "cloud and services company", meaning that they're in a shortage of fucks to give about desktop operating systems and applications.
- pjmlp 2y agoCOM is not going anywhere, all new APIs since Vista are COM based (or its cousin WinRT), with some exceptions like userspace drivers (the COM based version 1.0 apparently wasn't well received). This is only in regards to Office.