Instead of putting Copilot everywhere, Microsoft could hire some proper devs and qa to avoid such problems, But no, MS employs vibe-coders only and fired the entire qa team.

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gessha 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cynical viewpoint: Why should they if those things don’t affect their bottom line? If the market is AI-everything, any resources that you devote to non-AI is a bad signal. Incentives are everything.

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b00ty4breakfast 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, but if your customers can't even use the AI products because your OS is dysfunctional, then you're still losing out.

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jlarocco 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's circular logic. The market is "AI everything" because they (and Google, OpenAI, and Facebook) are shoving it down people's throats so they can desperately try to recoup their investment in GPUs.

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Nextgrid 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because there being a stable desktop OS brings indirect profits and enables efforts like AI to work. AI isn't going to help you if you no longer have a computer to run it on.

This is my general concern with the decline of tech quality. It’s one thing if it’s just consumer products, but it’s now affecting actual tools people including us use to do their jobs.

	▲	smj-edison 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. It's really important that you have a platform with your users, because that's how you introduce them to features (not always a bad thing). It becomes a touch point with your customers. Google and Apple have their phones, Meta is desperately trying to get their smart glasses working, Amazon is also desperately trying to get something together with Alexa, and Microsoft is... Throwing theirs away?

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olyjohn 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh I dunno. Maybe people should give a fuck about something other than making nothing but maximum profit. It's the core problem with our whole culture. Fuck you, make money. It's unethical trash.

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kotaKat 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't forget virtual participation trophies for "Windows Insiders" to act as unpaid QA as the replacement system.

	▲	davidkwast 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was nice in 2015-2017 when I got a free Windows 10 license for my Dell Ubuntu Linux Notebook (much cheaper to buy in Brazil). Back then most of the games only was on Windows. Nowadays I have a Lenovo with Windows 10/11 license but I do not used Windows since 2024.

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AlexandrB 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Microslop