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[–] 179 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Microsoft is quietly sunsetting everything they cant make money on with AI.

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It feels that way. Every ongoing product MS has feels decrepit and ready to collapse.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's been a while since I used any MS product but I've got the same feeling with Google products. Weird bugs are starting to accumulate and at the same time they're cramming every corner with buttons for their new AI integrations, with no explanation of how they're supposed to work. It's a mess, the stuff they add in doesn't even respect the original app design so they're really starting to look like they're put together with toothpicks and duct tape.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    They're still scamming the shit out of businesses with their corporate software. Oh and they have Azure which I'm guessing makes money.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't it ironic? The only Microsoft product that makes money consistently is based on Linux.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Meanwhile, their biggest competitor is either Linux or UNIX. That is, if you accept that macOS "is UNIX." It's been UNIX certified for a couple years now, but it's UNIX in name only. While Steve Jobs' NeXTStep was based on UNIX, NeXTStep was also vapourware. Still, it became OS X which became the macOS we know and love (or hate) today. But the truth is, it's UNIX 3 certified, which is a decades-old certification, and it only just barely makes that. So it's a thing Mac users brag about. "A UNIX system! I know this!" Jurassic Park meme. And then of course there's Linux. And of course Windows has the Linux subsystem. Still, non-*nix is going the way of the dodo, just like Win9x did when Microsoft realised WinNT was the future. First with the tranwreck that was WinME, but much more importantly with WinXP. And NT was good, but its time is up (or will be soon).

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They can’t even make money with their AI, they only survive off the windows OEM licenses, Office 365 subs that businesses are locked into and their backend server and sql stuff. That’s enough to make them a walking dead for a long time.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    And eventually companies will hopefully start cancelling those subscriptions to move to Open Office or Libre Office.

    France is already starting that push by having government departments transition first, and are projected to save millions of euros in licensing fees each year. Once you get a critical mass of users on libre software, it'll hopefully spread on its own

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