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> I purchased a "perpetual" license for Office 2019 My, memories are short. In 2008 Microsoft "Play for Sure" became play no more. Exactly the same stunt, 11 y
by rstuart4133 17d ago
> I purchased a "perpetual" license for Office 2019
My, memories are short. In 2008 Microsoft "Play for Sure" became play no more. Exactly the same stunt, 11 years before you bought that perpetual licence. Why anybody trusted the company after Play For Sure was a mystery to me.
And that was just the beginning. Then came Sony being ripped a new one, Azure being taken down by expired certs - twice in 6 months, critical certs signed with MD5 until it's so weak they were exploited, more recently China running rampant in hosted exchange scraping state secrets, GitHub with record down time, and Windows has become a dog slow ad platform. And yet today Microsoft makes the most revenue than any other software firm.
I dunno how they do it. After decades of treating their customers like shit, business has never been so good. They must have one mother of a sales team.
- ghusto 16d agoI heard the novel term "Golf Driven Development" the other day. Essentially it's where software/services aren't sold because people wanted or asked for them, they're sold because one CEO played golf with another CEO (with the express purpose of making this happen). Salesforce, Microsoft, Atlassian, and co. are obviously sold on their merits.
- SirFatty 16d agoAlso, the inability to have older software installed with newer software because of the installer type. e.g. Visio 2019 and Office 365 suite cannot coexist.