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By The Werewolf · Posted
Microsoft has several different customer groups. Services (like Azure), Office, dev tools, Windows server and Windows client which itself breaks into three groups: enterprise, education and consumer. The consumer product is one of the least profitable sections and is mainly used to get consumers to buy the other groups like Office and Services, so MSFT tends to focus on staying relevant more than being feature complete or even bug free. That would be tolerable, but MSFT takes the literal opposite approach to Apple who waits for a technology to mature enough that it's about to take off, tweaks it a little then releases a "magic" version and comes off looking like an innovative company. Instead, MSFT tends to look for the "next big thing" and get on the bandwagon as soon as possible - usually long before the technology is ready for consumer products - and usually at 110%. Most of the time, it turns out that "next big thing" ends up being a niche product (Win 10 was 3D everything, 3D printing, modelling and "XR" for visualisation) or just wrong (Win 8 and the "tablets are the future") forcing MSFT to backpedal after blowing tons of money. Win 11 was "The Web as the OS", AI (and weirdly "AI as the OS") and ARM/Copilot+ PCs, all of which have turned out to be mistakes to some degree or entirely. -
By The Werewolf · Posted
Please. I just had lunch. -
By The Werewolf · Posted
The core problem with Win 11 is much like Win 8 when Microsoft decided (in panic and incorrectly) that the iPad proved that the future was tablets and so redesigned the entire shell UI to be touch/tablet friendly - forgetting that 1.5 billion PCs are desktop systems without touch or pen support, Win 11 was the invasion of web apps and web tech into the shell because of course the future is the browser and making Windows as much like working in a browser as possible "just makes sense". Worse, they also got it into their heads that AI is the future and (as we saw with the thankfully discarded 2024 AI shell) that AI has to be the main front and center feature. Even if few wanted or needed it. And now they're realising again, that maybe their vision doesn't match reality. Maybe native apps built on .Net Framework and XAML based UI (which BTW, they tried to abandon with Win 8 and had to undo and restore - Microsoft really hates .Net, which they invented, for some reason) really are easier to write and maintain, more responsive and just better looking too? Maybe people really don't want to be forced to use AI all the time? Maybe change for change's sake isn't a good product strategy? -
By Steven P. · Posted
I think this could have better served as an editorial, I've passed the feedback on to the author. We'll do better! -
By hellowalkman · Posted
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