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warumdarum 17 hours ago [-]
They botched the phone, thry botched AI, just overall so obsessed with themselves, they tend to forget the customers
x______________ 8 hours ago [-]
After some time in the industry, once you reach a certain amount of zeros in your revenue, the org mindset almost always changes from something of a survival state into messiah-mode where everything it does and produces must-be and will-be accepted as the next best thing since sliced bread, at no matter the cost.
It's a human trait, Microsoft is not immune.
GuestFAUniverse 9 hours ago [-]
An ad free, minimal notification, calm design and thus _Pro_ like in (former times) _pro_fessional signature edition OS would be too simple.
Instead we get a marketing platform. Because "growth"... whatever that means until (and after) the next bubble pops.
Plus: that euphemistic /bubble/ is more like a puss and cancer ridden zombie needing constant life support. Keep the numbers high, yeah! Cheer the numbers!
warumdarum 9 hours ago [-]
Certainly has a cooperate socialist product feel too it..
nullable_bool 17 hours ago [-]
Remember when they tried banning the term "Microslop". Thats the type of delusion youre dealing with.
warumdarum 10 hours ago [-]
The operating system of the company is still : "win & bulldooze" while not honestly developing USPs that would bind customers to them
analogpixel 18 hours ago [-]
Simple, add an Anime Girl that pretends to like you.
cyanydeez 20 hours ago [-]
"We forced all the employees into AI, and now apparently, our internal AI usage is high; this means this project will get high usage from general consumers."
When your dogfood is really an opiate, you might have a problem.
Traubenfuchs 20 hours ago [-]
It‘s not an opiate, it‘s salvia divinorum or rather something even more awful like diphenhydramin.
Psychonaut wiki:
Notably, it is frequently reported to produce significant nausea and bodily discomfort ("body load"). Most people who try diphenhydramine do not report positive effects and do not wish to repeat the experience.
It is generally considered to have low abuse potential due to its dysphoric effects.
CrzyLngPwd 19 hours ago [-]
Don't all businesses with AI want people addicted to it?
It's a human trait, Microsoft is not immune.
Instead we get a marketing platform. Because "growth"... whatever that means until (and after) the next bubble pops. Plus: that euphemistic /bubble/ is more like a puss and cancer ridden zombie needing constant life support. Keep the numbers high, yeah! Cheer the numbers!
When your dogfood is really an opiate, you might have a problem.
Psychonaut wiki:
Notably, it is frequently reported to produce significant nausea and bodily discomfort ("body load"). Most people who try diphenhydramine do not report positive effects and do not wish to repeat the experience.
It is generally considered to have low abuse potential due to its dysphoric effects.