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In my experience, once organizations have enough history and size, they can't just pivot. Whatever happens within MS the organization makes it impossible for t
by dismalaf 4mo ago
In my experience, once organizations have enough history and size, they can't just pivot. Whatever happens within MS the organization makes it impossible for them to become anything other than what they've always been.
Their MO will always be EEE and they'll always (attempt to) abuse their monopoly power, while giving corpos and consumers just a glimmer of hope to keep them strung along...
Also any company they acquire will be gutted until it looks like the rest of the org.
- tonyedgecombe 4mo ago>Also any company they acquire will be gutted until it looks like the rest of the org. I'm trying to think of a Microsoft acquisition which has been a success. Nothing comes to mind.
- inigyou 4mo agoMinecraft didn't get shut down yet, only enshittified. I believe it's still very profitable due to the enshittification? I heard they sell skyblock maps for $8
- Grombobulous 3mo agoI don’t fully agree with this because the original experience (Java version, private servers, 100% free content) is still extremely popular and the same as it always was. I think it would be enshittification if Microsoft said “sorry, you now have to rent servers through us and all content comes from our content shop,” but that’s not the case. Merely offering a product that has a bad value is not enshittification.
- inigyou 3mo agoIs it enshittification if you heavily advertise the enshittified product and attract all the new users there? Like IRC and Discord, can we say Discord enshittified chat even though IRC is still around?
- esprehn 4mo agoGitHub and LinkedIn both appear to be pretty successful businesses.