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You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.

Hell, they weren't doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy "we know better" vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it's made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.

As the joke goes, "Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later"

(Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)

They believe they have a captive audience.

The day they killed off Windows Phone is they day I knew that there were no more devs left in the c-suite and that they were on a slow path to spinning off what’s left of their profitability.

xbox is a dumpster fire too

Windows 11 was just supposed to be Windows 10 with just an UI change and some more features, but with the slop code it's become extremely annoying.

We need some bored individual to put up a leaderboard of sorts. We've all been seeing some real stunning moves in the game of "wreck this immortal golden god of a company" - too much to keep up with honestly, these dorks are just as impactful as they always imagined! Who knew.

We're over here watching the fucking Olympics of ignorant greedy douchery and we never even had medals made 😩

They may. No one has ever made a financial bubble this big. They could totally dump everything into AI and then some. Maybe something absolutely brain dead like buy hardware with a 3 year lifespan by issuing a 100 year bond

This isn't because windows sucks, this is all the recoil from AI. MS invested over $13b in openai and holds about a quarter of the company.

Windows doesn't make enough money for Microsoft to seriously care about it, their baby now is Azure.

I think a lot of EFT type investments are going to be divesting from AI-Bubble stocks over the next while.

Good will and user happiness are both resources that companies earn and spend. I doubt lessons being learned.

Don't let your memes be dreams

But no really it might finally be, and soon

I used to work mostly with AWS and didn't realise how good we had it. Then the company merged and we're getting Azure contracts out the ass.

So many services work fine and look great when demoing them, but the moment you try to use them for anything but the most basic usecases they start buckling and ripping at the seams.

Vibe QA

I don't have as many issues with SharePoint and OneDrive anymore, but I feel like a tool after windows runs updates and breaks shit that I have to tell users to reboot to fix it. Daily. If you don't reboot once a week, windows actively starts fucking your shit up, and just plain stops working properly. Fucking hate it. Its such a pile of flaming shit.

Man Azure is such a pain in the ass

Their direct Revenue from Windows is not a main concern since I think it was something like 20% as you said. The problem though is that their cloud and enterprise offerings rely on the fact that businesses buy into the Windows platform.

Absolute garbage tier software like Teams, modern O365, AD, Azure, etc only sells because its built on Windows. If MSFT loses the home market, businesses have a high chance of following, especially since their QA process relies exclusively on home users.

Companies like RedHat and OpenSUSE already provide such services and plenty of smaller or newer clients have trialed or switched user-end desktop machines over to linux.

All they really need is to reach maybe 10% desktop market share, and MSFT would start facing a slaughter in the coming years as big OEMs start shipping linux from factory.

Anyone who isn't heavily vendor locked would probably take the chance, especially if they don't even rely on any Windows specific functionality for work.

But yeah as you said, good riddance. Windows has been such a trash experience for me ever since 8. They ignored all the critical issues and complaints on the stupid insider hub, and then doubled down on ruining the OS further in 10 and 11.

I think they are panicking because of the stock price reaction.

You might be able to downgrade to windows 10 and get extra security updates until October. I've been lazy and have continued using my old windows install using the outdated file structure, so Windows said I was ineligible to upgrade to 11 and gave it to me for free.

This has always been Linux's barrier to entry, that smug attitude of "you've just got to learn it". The majority of people don't want to learn new things, the vast majority definitely don't want to learn how to use a terminal.

There are some good low barrier distributions out there, but not many that "just work" for a user who uses their PC for multiple tasks.

Like SteamOS is wonderful if you're just a gamer, valve has cracked that and made the UI nice and simple, but if you leave steam and launch the desktop it gets very complex very quickly. Hopefully valve continues to improve that experience.

The title says "Windows is fallimg apart", but I hope Microsoft is falling apart as well.

Microhard

In that context would microrape be more apt?