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Microsoft is just so bad at marketing their products, and their branding is confusing. Unfortunately, until they fix that, any consumer facing product is going
by partiallypro 2y ago
Microsoft is just so bad at marketing their products, and their branding is confusing. Unfortunately, until they fix that, any consumer facing product is going to falter. Look at the new Microsoft 365 and Office 365 rebrands just of late. The business side of things will still make money but watching them flounder on consumer facing products is just so frustrating. The Surface and Xbox brand are the only 2 that seem to have somewhat escaped the gravity of the rest of the organization in terms of that, but nothing all that polished or groundbreaking has really come out of Microsoft from a consumer facing standpoint in over a decade now. Microsoft could build the best AI around but it doesn't matter without users.
- Enginerrrd 2y agoYeah, the office suite is such a cash cow. It is polished, feature rich, and ubiquitous compared to alternatives and somehow has remained so for decades. And yet, I'm increasingly getting seriously concerned they are going to break it so badly I'll need to find an alternative.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoIf you don't already think it is broken beyond repair, you're never going to get there. Office is disgraceful trash now, a sad fall (especially of Word) from where it once was.
- Enginerrrd 2y agoHard disagree. Their web-based offerings actually really suck beyond the point I could ever tolerate. Unusably bad. There have been murmurs that they want to go that direction entirely.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoI don't see how that's disagreeing. I totally agree with this statement.
- nyarlathotep_ 2y agoI get that "growth" must be everything or whatever, but can't a company just be stable and reliable for a while? What's wrong with enterprise contracts and more market penetration for cloud services of (oftentimes) dubious use?