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>Why are they behaving like this since last year (trying very hard to burn themselves to the ground) Since last year? Burning themselves into the ground has be
by rl3 9mo ago
>Why are they behaving like this since last year (trying very hard to burn themselves to the ground)
Since last year? Burning themselves into the ground has been their M.O. for the last decade and a half, at least.
I'd argue enshitification started in earnest with Windows 8.
AI just enables them to speed up the process dramatically.
- hahahahhaah 9mo agoVista and 8 were just shit but they genuinely tried. 10 and 11 are the evil shit. 11 especially so.
- theothertimcook 9mo ago10 isn’t that bad, particularly the iot version.
- rl3 9mo agoOn that note, I've heard the LTSC version of Windows 11 isn't as horrible.
- theothertimcook 9mo agoSince it’s pretty hard to acquire legally the assumption is that MAS is being used, I’d probably go for 10 iot with updates till 2032. 11 LTSC is heaps better than consumer editions but it’s still shite. The second anticheat embraces Linux windows is deadskies.
- markus_zhang 9mo agoThe problem is do we want Linux to get all those stuffs like kernel anti cheat? Said similar thing to the ladybird browser a while ago — I’d prefer it NOT support some features.
- theothertimcook 9mo agoI’m all for it, the work steam is doing has done more for Linux uptake than anything else in the last decade or two, I’m nearly at the point where I don’t need windows, even for work.
- uyzstvqs 9mo agoThere's a difference in Steve Ballmer's Microsoft and Satya Nadella's Microsoft. Ballmer was a villain, that hurt the company, but he was smart and never caused too serious destruction. Nadella might be slighly less of a villain, but he has no clue what he's doing and is driving the company straight into the ground. Microsoft would be such an easy fix to get back on the right path, but Nadella is not going to do that, and nobody is going to make you or me the CEO.
- rl3 9mo ago>Microsoft would be such an easy fix to get back on the right path, ... Why treat workers right, properly resource teams, and build quality stuff on a roadmap that looks beyond the next quarter when you can just treat your workers, product and customers as if they're all disposable trash. Basically the standard Fortune 500 playbook with few exceptions. >...but Nadella is not going to do that, and nobody is going to make you or me the CEO. That's a good thing. When they eventually fail completely and sell their assets, it'll be a source of cheap datacenters for the competition—at least assuming demand eventually chills out.
- uyzstvqs 9mo ago> Why treat workers right, properly resource teams, and build quality stuff on a roadmap that looks beyond the next quarter when you can just treat your workers, product and customers as if they're all disposable trash. Because capitalism is a fact, and actually trying to build the best possible products for your users will give you a market-leading position which your greedy competition can't defeat, and which will give you the most profit as a result. Big CEOs and shareholders still don't get this. Microsoft has a foothold in the market, and they may feel impossible to defeat, but they're not. If this is their attitude, they will lose. > That's a good thing. When they eventually fail completely and sell their assets, it'll be a source of cheap datacenters for the competition—at least assuming demand eventually chills out. If they continue like this, yes. But if they just get their act together, it would be a win-win for everyone. The company isn't doomed, other than by its own active doing.
- itopaloglu83 9mo agoBrand new CNC mills from Hurco use Windows 7 still, this is the brand new specs on their website.
- sevenseacat 9mo agoI'm pretty sure a lot of CNC machines still run Windows 98.
- NuclearPM 9mo ago3.1 and earlier too. Not relevant when talking about new machines.