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It is truly shocking how shit Microsoft is under Nadella. It's like 100× worse than Gates or Balmer. Wild.
What's really wild is that people put up with this shit.
For me the straw that broke the camel's back was finding out that
system32is owned by the installer user and I'd have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.And here people are like: "Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought." While the apologists go: "You can disable those in the registry."
I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!
The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.
The worst is the stranglehold windows has in the professional world. Shit I'm not even an office worker and I have to deal with ads and now AI just working in the shop and using a PC for Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
Adobe has been getting really bad too. I shouldn't have to close like 4 different banners, popups, involuntary AI "summary" suggestions every time I open a PDF. The literal only thing I open on adobe is electrical schematics and using acrobat to document changes, etc. I doubt it could summarize drawings exported from AutoCAD and even if it could, why would I even want that? I need to test panels, not have something tell me "this is a schematic"
Balmer and Gates worked their way up, especially Gates from basically nothing. They understood mostly what their customers wanted. But Nadella only understands short term revenue. Not the longtime customers.
Gates's Mom was an IBM executive. He got handed a multi million dollar contract before he was out of undergrad. That's not "from nothing". The man was practically coronated
Microsoft was always bad. But now that they've saturated the market, they need shadier and shittier gimmicks to keep justifying their inflated stock price.
Now they're trying to sell businesses on AI as a full replacement for worker headcount. It's a bald faced lie. But with enough money spent on marketing and gimmicks like this...