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Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI

67 points by juujian 10mo ago

mawadev 10mo ago
If you ignore the stock price and just check in on the state of windows after windows 7, you get a clear picture
- add-sub-mul-div 10mo ago
  Maybe not the point you were making, but Windows 8 was lame, then 8.1 was an improvement, 10 was more improvement, and now 11 is further improvement. That's from a daily user. A lot of Windows criticism sounds like it comes from non-users or users who want to be in the hater in-group more than they want to invest in setting it up well. The AI stuff is definitely terrible, but I turned it off a long time ago and never see it, it's another thing I don't understand the outrage about. The FUD about it getting reactivated hasn't come to pass for me.
  - mawadev 10mo ago
    I agree with your points... From my POV, the pattern seems to be good/bad/good/bad, but what actually happens is a subtle lowering of our standards and expectations that we have towards what an OS has to do and how it does things. With every bad version, the next version seems to be less bad or even good, but what it does is lower the standard further. Stuff started to move to one drive, office is all cloud now, they are subtly chipping away the personal computing concept...
  - nacs 10mo ago
    Most people don't think Windows 11 is an improvement over 10. There's a lot of people that actually started migrating to Mac / Linux when Windows 10 went EOL recently.
  - Yizahi 10mo ago
    Windows 11 was clearly a regression after a very good Windows 10. Task bar from Win10 had been completely deleted and a garbage tablet replacement had been pushed in. It's already what, 3 or 4 years in Win11 an task bar still don't have a comparable functionality. It is also slower in performance, it takes visible seconds just to open a volume slider, which loaded almost instantly on Win10 and same hardware. There were multiple severe problems with AMD performance on release, fixed much later, again showing that hey took inferior code or even build from scratch (meaning Win10 had a superior code inside). Explorer has been degraded significantly, I usually use Total Commander and don't have to interact with it, but unfortunately Save/Open File menus are still Explorer ones. And there it has applied this new file "structure" of Today/LastWeek/LastMonth and so on, which overrides normal sorting rules for some folders like Downloads. finding files are now a damn quest. I had to change my downloads directory to a user created one in every program, just to avoid this crap. And the list goes on, I just don't remember every single UI regression issue I've encountered right away. But Win11 is clearly bad. Not the awful bad, but annoying bad daily.
- solumunus 10mo ago
  If I owned MSFT I would be selling right now.
  - bdangubic 10mo ago
    because?
    - fancyfredbot 10mo ago
      Windows 11 usage is declining. The Xbox is selling vastly less than Sony/Nintendo. PC gamers are moving to SteamOS and Linux. The billions poured into OpenAI no longer look so smart given very competitive offerings elsewhere. Despite all this they still have a hugely profitable business, a pretty decent OS under all the adware, and a defacto monopoly on business productivity software.
      - bdangubic 10mo ago
        first paragraph is why we should be selling or second?
        therealpygon 10mo ago
        Corporations get their software into businesses through the exact same process software gets replaced in those companies… usually through IT and/or users using things personally who become their champions. So which paragraph do you think was more relevant to their recommendation…the one where they already have most of the customers they will ever have, or the one where people are increasingly moving away from them in their daily lives?
        bdangubic 10mo ago
        in just last 5 months they got two new corporate customers with 1400 and 550 employees. and this is just me, one nobody that knows about. if you think they are not getting new corporate customers not daily but hourly you mite be tad misinformed. as an exercise see how many job openings there are where you won’t be using MSFT products if you get the gig :)
toomuchtodo 10mo ago
His share price target and enterprise valuation depend on it.
blibble 10mo ago
seems he's finally realised he's bet the company (and more importantly for him, his reputation) on a dud?
- deleted 10mo ago
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alecco 10mo ago
I'm very happy Nadella is driving Microsoft to the ground with the help of Suleyman, Panay, and a bunch of other incompetent people.
- leosanchez 10mo ago
  You are wrong... Panay no longer works at Microsoft.
  - alecco 10mo ago
    His ghost still lurks in the Windows 11 debacle.
ronbenton 10mo ago
It appears people are now using the term "Microslop" which I find funny. I'm not in any way an anti-AI absolutist but I do get annoyed by how Microsoft has jammed it into every nook and cranny of their product suite.
- Spivak 10mo ago
  And it's not even good I can't understand what they're trying to do. I press the button occasionally just to mess with it and it has zero access to my data to do anything useful. Copilot in Outlook can't read my email, it's just a worse ChatGPT window sitting next to my email. What use-cases are you even imagining?
  - mwcz 10mo ago
    What they're certainly trying to do is get good annual reviews which increasingly revolve around saying "Look, I did AI."
    - TesterVetter 10mo ago
      [dead]
  - ronbenton 10mo ago
    They're trying to ship AI features. Which is the issue. They shouldn't be shipping AI features, they should be solving problems. If AI features are in service of solving those problems then great. But starting from a fad solution and trying to reverse-engineer a problem is backwards.
  - wolvoleo 10mo ago
    It can have access to all your data, but they want you to pay $30 a month for that. The free one doesn't have this access. Fwiw I have that at work and IMO it's not worth that much. It's more useful than the free one but nothing game changing.
- darubedarob 10mo ago
  "Have you considered Copilot as your personal lord and retirements saviour?" These unwanted product pitches have something cultist and unsettling. Like all voices of reason have been removed the echo chamber diving bell is so sealed that the CEO blogs to ge to hear some sort of pushback. Time to serve the cool aid.
486sx33 10mo ago
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M95D 10mo ago
Anyone here working in management/accounting: Is this blog post perfectly timed for some financially important event, anual report, investors meeting or something? I'm very curious to know.
ChrisArchitect 10mo ago
Source: https://snscratchpad.com/posts/looking-ahead-2026/ https://snscratchpad.com/posts/looking-ahead-2026/
layer8 10mo ago
> Nadella argues 2026 "will be a pivotal year for AI. I hope that means they’re planning to pivot away from it. ;)
1vuio0pswjnm7 10mo ago
Maybe he used "AI" to help him compose the blog post Why not
belZaah 10mo ago
AI could make me probably more productive in, say, Word. If it would be integrated into Mac Word the way it’s there in VSCode. Which it isn’t. But while they do that, the writing software I’ve used for 30+ years gets worse and worse devouring my productivity. Word has had zero new features in a decade and yet it looses diagrams, messes up formatting, converts diagram labels into static text, breaks references or does other undesirable things with increasing frequency? That’s not a technology issue, it’s a leadership issue.
Yizahi 10mo ago
Satya publishes his thoughts on some custom platform? What happened to the Big Beautiful Linkedin? I thought it was, ahem - "From cybersecurity insiders, to agriculture experts, to thought leaders on diversity and leadership, and beyond, the world’s experts are talking on LinkedIn.". Aren't Microsoft CEO the perfect leader to be an example and post there? Lead the way, so to say? Or did he realize that only corporate psychos and bots post there? :)
- ethbr1 10mo ago
  Or even just a github markdown file, considering there's nothing he needed in excess of md formatting. '... it'd be a lot cooler if you did.'
tempodox 10mo ago
That article is a well-deserved scathing satire. Nice to see that not everyone has fallen prey to “AI”-driven brain rot.
dada216 9mo ago
I actually thought it was a decent post. Corporate speech for "we may start to see some real world work being done with this, still gotta figure it out though"

67 points by juujian 10mo ago

mawadev 10mo ago

If you ignore the stock price and just check in on the state of windows after windows 7, you get a clear picture

add-sub-mul-div 10mo ago
Maybe not the point you were making, but Windows 8 was lame, then 8.1 was an improvement, 10 was more improvement, and now 11 is further improvement. That's from a daily user. A lot of Windows criticism sounds like it comes from non-users or users who want to be in the hater in-group more than they want to invest in setting it up well. The AI stuff is definitely terrible, but I turned it off a long time ago and never see it, it's another thing I don't understand the outrage about. The FUD about it getting reactivated hasn't come to pass for me.
- mawadev 10mo ago
  I agree with your points... From my POV, the pattern seems to be good/bad/good/bad, but what actually happens is a subtle lowering of our standards and expectations that we have towards what an OS has to do and how it does things. With every bad version, the next version seems to be less bad or even good, but what it does is lower the standard further. Stuff started to move to one drive, office is all cloud now, they are subtly chipping away the personal computing concept...
- nacs 10mo ago
  Most people don't think Windows 11 is an improvement over 10. There's a lot of people that actually started migrating to Mac / Linux when Windows 10 went EOL recently.
- Yizahi 10mo ago
  Windows 11 was clearly a regression after a very good Windows 10. Task bar from Win10 had been completely deleted and a garbage tablet replacement had been pushed in. It's already what, 3 or 4 years in Win11 an task bar still don't have a comparable functionality. It is also slower in performance, it takes visible seconds just to open a volume slider, which loaded almost instantly on Win10 and same hardware. There were multiple severe problems with AMD performance on release, fixed much later, again showing that hey took inferior code or even build from scratch (meaning Win10 had a superior code inside). Explorer has been degraded significantly, I usually use Total Commander and don't have to interact with it, but unfortunately Save/Open File menus are still Explorer ones. And there it has applied this new file "structure" of Today/LastWeek/LastMonth and so on, which overrides normal sorting rules for some folders like Downloads. finding files are now a damn quest. I had to change my downloads directory to a user created one in every program, just to avoid this crap. And the list goes on, I just don't remember every single UI regression issue I've encountered right away. But Win11 is clearly bad. Not the awful bad, but annoying bad daily.
solumunus 10mo ago
If I owned MSFT I would be selling right now.
- bdangubic 10mo ago
  because?
  - fancyfredbot 10mo ago
    Windows 11 usage is declining. The Xbox is selling vastly less than Sony/Nintendo. PC gamers are moving to SteamOS and Linux. The billions poured into OpenAI no longer look so smart given very competitive offerings elsewhere. Despite all this they still have a hugely profitable business, a pretty decent OS under all the adware, and a defacto monopoly on business productivity software.
    - bdangubic 10mo ago
      first paragraph is why we should be selling or second?
      - therealpygon 10mo ago
        Corporations get their software into businesses through the exact same process software gets replaced in those companies… usually through IT and/or users using things personally who become their champions. So which paragraph do you think was more relevant to their recommendation…the one where they already have most of the customers they will ever have, or the one where people are increasingly moving away from them in their daily lives?
        bdangubic 10mo ago
        in just last 5 months they got two new corporate customers with 1400 and 550 employees. and this is just me, one nobody that knows about. if you think they are not getting new corporate customers not daily but hourly you mite be tad misinformed. as an exercise see how many job openings there are where you won’t be using MSFT products if you get the gig :)

toomuchtodo 10mo ago

His share price target and enterprise valuation depend on it.

blibble 10mo ago

seems he's finally realised he's bet the company (and more importantly for him, his reputation) on a dud?

deleted 10mo ago
[deleted]

alecco 10mo ago

I'm very happy Nadella is driving Microsoft to the ground with the help of Suleyman, Panay, and a bunch of other incompetent people.

leosanchez 10mo ago
You are wrong... Panay no longer works at Microsoft.
- alecco 10mo ago
  His ghost still lurks in the Windows 11 debacle.

ronbenton 10mo ago

It appears people are now using the term "Microslop" which I find funny. I'm not in any way an anti-AI absolutist but I do get annoyed by how Microsoft has jammed it into every nook and cranny of their product suite.

Spivak 10mo ago
And it's not even good I can't understand what they're trying to do. I press the button occasionally just to mess with it and it has zero access to my data to do anything useful. Copilot in Outlook can't read my email, it's just a worse ChatGPT window sitting next to my email. What use-cases are you even imagining?
- mwcz 10mo ago
  What they're certainly trying to do is get good annual reviews which increasingly revolve around saying "Look, I did AI."
  - TesterVetter 10mo ago
    [dead]
- ronbenton 10mo ago
  They're trying to ship AI features. Which is the issue. They shouldn't be shipping AI features, they should be solving problems. If AI features are in service of solving those problems then great. But starting from a fad solution and trying to reverse-engineer a problem is backwards.
- wolvoleo 10mo ago
  It can have access to all your data, but they want you to pay $30 a month for that. The free one doesn't have this access. Fwiw I have that at work and IMO it's not worth that much. It's more useful than the free one but nothing game changing.
darubedarob 10mo ago
"Have you considered Copilot as your personal lord and retirements saviour?" These unwanted product pitches have something cultist and unsettling. Like all voices of reason have been removed the echo chamber diving bell is so sealed that the CEO blogs to ge to hear some sort of pushback. Time to serve the cool aid.

486sx33 10mo ago

[dead]

M95D 10mo ago

Anyone here working in management/accounting: Is this blog post perfectly timed for some financially important event, anual report, investors meeting or something? I'm very curious to know.

ChrisArchitect 10mo ago

Source: https://snscratchpad.com/posts/looking-ahead-2026/ https://snscratchpad.com/posts/looking-ahead-2026/

layer8 10mo ago

> Nadella argues 2026 "will be a pivotal year for AI. I hope that means they’re planning to pivot away from it. ;)

1vuio0pswjnm7 10mo ago

Maybe he used "AI" to help him compose the blog post Why not

belZaah 10mo ago

AI could make me probably more productive in, say, Word. If it would be integrated into Mac Word the way it’s there in VSCode. Which it isn’t. But while they do that, the writing software I’ve used for 30+ years gets worse and worse devouring my productivity. Word has had zero new features in a decade and yet it looses diagrams, messes up formatting, converts diagram labels into static text, breaks references or does other undesirable things with increasing frequency? That’s not a technology issue, it’s a leadership issue.

Yizahi 10mo ago

Satya publishes his thoughts on some custom platform? What happened to the Big Beautiful Linkedin? I thought it was, ahem - "From cybersecurity insiders, to agriculture experts, to thought leaders on diversity and leadership, and beyond, the world’s experts are talking on LinkedIn.". Aren't Microsoft CEO the perfect leader to be an example and post there? Lead the way, so to say? Or did he realize that only corporate psychos and bots post there? :)

ethbr1 10mo ago
Or even just a github markdown file, considering there's nothing he needed in excess of md formatting. '... it'd be a lot cooler if you did.'

tempodox 10mo ago

That article is a well-deserved scathing satire. Nice to see that not everyone has fallen prey to “AI”-driven brain rot.

dada216 9mo ago

I actually thought it was a decent post. Corporate speech for "we may start to see some real world work being done with this, still gotta figure it out though"