I'm sorry, I haven't heard that name in a long time. Didn't they change it to Microslop to ride the AI wave?
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They didn't change it; always has been.
"Microsoft is killing itself with AI"
This isn't an outside cause hurting a company, the damage is self inflicted.
Microsoft hurts itself in its confusion
That’s actually one positive thing about AI
I worked for Microsoft years ago. Nandella early years were great, quality was part of the process, engineer on automation like me had a great time.
Then he lost his kid and he returned something changed, managers were much less flexible, they started to fire people and luckily I was able to change jobs before they start the annual layoffs.
Instead of giving raises they prefer to cut 10% every year and hire cheaper… my friends that remained say the morale is very low
And this change things, when you like the place you work, you work the extra mile, when you are afraid of being layoff you just fake you’re doing more, you try to pull the rug of others instead of collaborate, ambient gets toxic and quality and true innovation suffers.
I think you've just described pretty much every corporation in North America though, if not even Europe. I read somewhere the other day it's called the Rat Enterprise and the Rat Economy, which I think it's an apt description. Nobody produces much of value anymore, it's just largely bullshit and smoke and mirrors. Anyone who produces physical goods has enshitified them to basically just passable enough quality.
The article seems to be saying that Microsoft is losing favor of investors, not that they began losing money or something.
Don't get me wrong, I would love Microslop to fall down, but.. I do not get how failing to satisfy finicky slop-loving investors is "death to Microsoft".
It's a tricky thing, because shareholder value is entirely vibes based. Microsoft is demonstrably losing market share, approval from users, and functionality of the OS. While it's understandable to want to chase new trends, long term OS stability and compatibility for the average user was their golden goose, and they're killing it. We're seeing people move away from windows, which 5 years ago would have been an impossibility.
It's slow to act, but the more market share something like Linux gets, the more it tends to snowball in terms of public opinion. That definitely has the possibility of eating a significant chunk of MS revenue.
I hope they don't figure it out and back off completely until Linux has enough market share to force software companies to design for Linus as much as Macintosh at a minimum. I really hope that windows figures out their shit and makes a good OS again in the future but they've shown time and time again they can't be a monopoly without enshitification being their main plan, be it when they almost got broken up 30 years ago and they propped up Apple as a "competitor" which was a joke at the time or now with everything they did with 8 and now 11 they need to be him led like IBM was and become a background player maybe useful for buisness ventures but not powerful enough to delay competitive advances to keep their market share.
Problem is they barely have reason to care at all about Windows, it's only 4.2% of their revenue even with their formidable presence in the market. That might even include their microsoft store cut, making the OS itself even less of a significant money driver.
So they feel it becomes more valuable to try to use that to promote their more profitable cloud services, make the users rent everything.
However, a huge warning sign for them should be the relative pittance of "consumer" cloud revenue. Suggests that all the efforts to try to milk the consumer market is for naught, as consumers just don't want to spend that money on renting office software or storage. So moves that make their consumer desktop user hostile have negligible upside but may ultimately threaten their position in the 70% of their revenue that is business customers. They got those business customers in a consumer-first play where home computers set specific expectations the businesses embrassed, and they could lose that the same way.
Especially in a world where the only software most users use is a web browser, and games are the biggest non-browser software that remains, but Valve is having a decent success pushing non-Windows story.
Some games DRM or anti-cheat makes Windows the only option, but the gamers grow weary of all that BS too.
With Windows 11, every stupid thing you save on your computer, a copy automatically goes up into the cloud and fills your allotment and then they want you to buy more cloud space. I have a ton of Google cloud space not being used so just sent all that there and deleted the microsoft cloud stuff... and shut down the permissions for files to be sent there. They want $19.99 a month for more cloud space! I am not a huge fan of Google but my space there is less expensive also... I have a hard drive I am backing my files up to but I have had the sad experience of corrupted drives...
I need to learn more about Linux. I am not particularly tech knowledgeable... just what I have been able to pick up while working, I am in my 60s (did not have computers in HS, a small computer lab in college... I grew up analog).
They made done incredibly stupid decisions.
They happily ran on "Fuck you customer, est vopilot/recsll/edge/ai training we'll do as we please ^because we have enterprise customers^" while completely forgetting that enterprise customers also have ears. And invasive data capture sours companies on you REAALLL fuckin' fast.
~~AI~~ Nadella is killing Microsoft.
His leadership has screwed up so much (remember Windows 11?). But stock continues to go up so that’s all that matters.
Stock has been continuously going down for at least 6 months.
well I'll have to eat my words, AI was useful for something in the end
If that works, AI had at least done one good thing.
Well maybe AI isn't ball that bad.
When I saw the other day that github reliability was <90% I knew they are deep on the road to fully cooked.
Yeah, the headline was something like "GitHub is the first enterprise services platform to hit zero 9's"
9's
Ideally without the apostrophe.
Finally a good use for ai
I think AI is only part of the problem, Nadella's leadership is marked with a lot of bad choices that aligned users against Microslop. The requirements for Windows 11 was an intentional ploy to get users to upgrade their computers, instigating a potentially massive E-waste event. Allowing Xbox Division to fall so far from grace that it's barely a blip in the Gaming Scene, when it could've evolved into something competitive with the right choices being made. Forcing features on users that they disable, only to enable those features sneakily after every few updates. Forcing Edge as the only default browser, and making it hard as fuck to use another choice on a computer is some next level bullshit too. LLMs are going to be the decoration on the dagger that slays Microslop as a company, but it's not the only factor that will end them.
I am chuffed that Linux is getting a lot of attention because Microslop's leadership dared to be so brazenly stupid; I say let Microslop die, as they are creating their intricate corporate suicide plan.
Allowing Xbox Division to fall so far from grace that it’s barely a blip in the Gaming Scene
This surprised me, as the xBox One launch showed they knew that gamers didn't actually want games, they wanted to use it to watch TV!
It's wild that they thought the xbox one launch should have included:
Microsoft making win 10 free, get money from windows users with services and OEM, so forcing people newer computers makes OEM licenses to be sold …
Microsoft: Stands on literal fucking lava
Microsoft: "Why am I taking damage?"
"Maybe I could eat some of it to get better?"
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
unzips
Okay, keep going.
Only way for Microsoft to save itself is to post real pictures of their pets.
You say this like it's a bad thing.
great, perfect, awesome... it was too late actually, microsoft, adobe, google and meta are on top of the corpos i want to be bankrupt, they are a serious threat to freedom and privacy
Not fast enough
Be the first good thing to come of it. Microslop should die. A company that refuses to do what its customer base wants and in fact does quite the opposite should go away.
Thought that said *Minecraft" and was worried for a second.
Rest In Piss
well, they do own Minecraft.
Which they have absolutely enshitified. My kid wanted it for Christmas, but he's like super young, so I had to install it on my account and then allow him family access. Spent my entire afternoon 3.5 seconds from throwing the laptop through the window getting that setup to work.
If i stab myself with a knife you don't say "A knife is killing teft"
Just saying.
Whoa spoilers (if you’re that teft)
#fuckmoash
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Here’s to hoping we get to see the results of “too big to fail”.
For the fifth time today I have been threatened with a good time.
Ok?
nothing of Value was lost.
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