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I was sent a test device with Astoria by Microsoft, and I an still flabbergasted they abandoned it. It worked really well, Android apps did feel like the most s
by ocdtrekkie 1y ago
I was sent a test device with Astoria by Microsoft, and I an still flabbergasted they abandoned it. It worked really well, Android apps did feel like the most sluggish apps on the platform... but only because they ran like Android apps.
Just one more stepping stone on Microsoft's constant inability to make good decisions.
Fundamentally though, the biggest issue probably was Microsoft was still far too afraid to fight Google directly, their monopoly was at its height but user perception of that hadn't caught up yet.
- neodymiumphish 1y agoEnough high-potential Microsoft products died on the vine that it’ll take a serious and lasting change in corporate processes before I ever go back. I loved the thought that went into the Surface Book, but it was killed off for some half-assed alternative. The Surface Neo was a really cool idea that rotted away after being announced. So many software ideas went away before they even had a change (Subsystem for Android being the most recent one I can recall).
- ocdtrekkie 1y agoI have regularly described Microsoft as the most self-defeating company in history. From a product and engineering standpoint, their products are top class, but their leadership decisions remain baffling and damaging to their own brand.
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoThis feels like how someone explained IBM to me around 20 years ago.