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'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular (www.techradar.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 70 points 8 months ago (7 children)

How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Windows Mobile was the most popular mobile OS in the US during mid 00s. But it was all downhill from there

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Would you happen to have a source for that? Admittedly this is based on nothing more than my anecdotal experience living through it, but I owned a PocketPC back then and I distinctly remember feeling like I was in the minority compared to Palm or Blackberry.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    MS doesn't care about home users, hasn't in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.

    If you're running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.

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