Technology

Microsoft can never name products... Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox one, Xbox series x, Xbox series s... Hell I'm currently watching agdq and can't tell you the best one, imagine a grandmother trying to buy a gift for her grandchild. Atleast it's Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5 obvious which one is newest. Or Windows 3.1, nt, 3.1 with workgroups, 95, 98, 2000, me, xp, 7, vista, 8, 10, 11...wtf?

It's so fucking bad.

I'm currently having an issue on my work machine where my Windows App doesn't close properly, and will hang the next time I try to connect to a virtual desktop unless I kill it in the task manager.

Imagine the crazy vague answers you get when you search for "Windows App won't close".

The rdp client was renamed “Windows App”, remember?

Wait, let me say that this is not accurate without defending Microsoft (fuck them). The rdp client hasn't been renamed, to my knowledge. What was renamed to Windows app was the other product very confusingly named "remote desktop client", which was a Microsoft Store app meant to access things like Azure Virtual Desktop, their cloud Windows service, etc. Yes, incredibly confusing product naming from Microsoft, as usual.

I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job

What are you talking about? Under this guy's tenure the MSFT share price skyrocketed. What else would shareholders care about? He's doing an excellent job, as far as they're concerned.

Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then. When they built a new version of Windows that was so bad they threw it away after a few years and botched together Vista as a quick save.

Or for Gates? Who just missed and overlooked this newfangled internet thing in the 90s until they slammed the brakes and used loads of money to turn things around?

Or the Microsoft that successfully hollowed out monopoly regulations paving the way for the tech bro style off business we now have?

But engineer don't make dividends go up. Engineer know to reinvest, and stock holder sad not get more money.

He's generating profit, that's all that matters to the shareholders.

Why not both moment:

Micro$lop

It must be hard to admit he spent billions on a slop machine. Sunk cost fallacy is probably one of many things they're fighting.

It will become the norm. Our CEO uses ChatGPT a lot. He used it to write a Christmas email to the whole company. All of his correspondence it devoid of any personality.

Copilot is Slopilot

the vice is the sloppy second

They worked hard for it, and earned it.

With Edge running on top to render all user interface elements.

I think it'd be a full screen ai client app running on linux, probably on cage. why bother with the nt and win32 and whatever middlewares. linux is externally maintained. saved dev money can be used for power/ram bills instead.

But just in case, let’s lay off 5-10% of our workforce again this quarter just to further drive home how profitable we are!

inb4 they name System32 to Copilot so you can’t delete it.

Macroslop would be better

Apropos of nothing, there's a studio that makes porn games called neversoft, and I think it's a brilliant name.