| ▲ | HoldOnAMinute 5 hours ago |
| The trend of "non-functional software" is happening everywhere. See the recent articles about Copilot in Notepad, failing to start because you aren't signed in with your Microsoft Account. We are in a future that nobody wanted. |
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| ▲ | amarant 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not quite everywhere. There's a common denominator for all of those: Microsoft. Their business is buying good products and turning them into shit, while wringing every cent they can out of the business. Always has been. They have a grace period of about 2-4 years after acquisition where interference is minimal. Then it ramps up. How long a product can survive once the interference begins largely depends on how good senior leadership at that product company is at resisting the interference. It's a hopeless battle, the best you can do is to lose slowly. |
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| ▲ | Andrex 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Things don't always ramp up after 2-4 years. Sometimes MS just kills the project or company after that period of time. See also their moves in the gaming industry. | | |
| ▲ | amarant 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Heh, I was working at 2 of those gaming companies when they were acquired by m$. I almost fear taking another job in the gaming industry, there seems to be some kind of bastardised version of Murphy's law that any gaming company that hires me will be acquired by ms 6 months later. I mean, that's obviously not the case, but it's weird that it happened twice! |
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| ▲ | its_magic 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I for one am shocked--SHOCKED, I say!--to learn that anything bad could happen as a result of a) putting everything in "the cloud" and b) handing control over the entire world's source code to the likes of Microsoft. Who could have POSSIBLY foreseen any kind of dire consequences? | | |
| ▲ | endgame 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Nobody. Nobody at all could have seen it. Microsoft is cool now, haven't you seen VSCode? They do Open Source, they run Linux, they've joined the fold, the tiger shed its stripes. |
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| ▲ | bonesss 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This thread has complaints about software coming from the same supplier both degrading. The person(s) who wanted this want Azure to get bigger and have prioritized Azure over Windows and Office, and their share price has been growing handsomely. ‘Microslop’, perhaps, but their other nickname has a $ in it for a reason. |
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| ▲ | habitable5 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > We are in a future that nobody wanted. some people wanted this future and put in untold amount of money to make it happen. Hint: one of them is a rabid Tolkien fan. |
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| ▲ | michaelcampbell 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| MS PM's wanted it, got their OKR's OK'd, got their bonuses, and moved on. |
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| ▲ | its_magic 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Laughs in my own Linux distro |
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| ▲ | dylan604 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > We are in a future that nobody wanted. Nor deserved. |
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| ▲ | heliumtera 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Then why is it the future we have? | | |
| ▲ | its_magic 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It was a complete accident. Nobody could have foreseen it. We are currently experiencing the sudden discovery that Microsoft is an evil corporation and maybe putting everything in the cloud wasn't the best move after all. | |
| ▲ | timacles 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Let’s just say there are a couple of guys, who are up to no good. And they started making trouble in our neighborhood. jokes aside it’s all because of hyper financial engineering. Every dollar every little cent must be maximized. Every process must be exploited and monetized, and there are a small group of people who are essentially driving all this all across the world in every industry. |
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