• yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    The problem with companies like Microsoft is that they’ve become completely pointless. They don’t innovate anymore. They don’t make anything useful. If you make Microsoft more efficient, they’ll just suck ass more efficiently.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      They have a shitton of other products, services, and tech though?

      Just because it’s not marketed at you doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

      I interact with the development ecosystem that Microsoft largely controls. They’re constantly doing new stuff there.

      Shit megacorps? Yeah. No innovation? No.

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        10 hours ago

        The problem is that they’re too fucking big. Office used to be the shining star of Microsoft, but now, it’s a total piece of shit. My company recently switched from Google to Microsoft, and holy shit, it’s a downgrade.

        Outlook is the biggest pile of shit software I’ve encountered in years. It’s eventually consistent but without user feedback, it’s very slow, meeting rooms aren’t consistent about meeting room responses, email filtering rules don’t work reliably… I could go on.

        Word sucks, too. Google Docs is way easier to use. In Word, copy and paste doesn’t work as you’d expect, even from Word doc to Word doc, there’s no templating in OneDrive, there aren’t shared folders unless you set up a whole SharePoint site… I could go on here, too.

        It’s this stupid, stupid focus on AI tools. AI ain’t making shit better! AI shouldn’t replace humans or things humans work on: it should augment humans. Products still need development on UX. AI should be incorporated into UX without being shoved down our throats. But these dumbass investors who don’t understand tech are jumping on the fucking bandwagon, and execs are towing the line.

        Sorry for the rant, but Microsoft is more than just development tools.

        Also, they need to get ads out of my fucking operating system. I don’t want my operating system natively communicating with the internet and recommending news stories. Fucking cancer

    • FreedomAdvocate
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      8 hours ago

      Sorry but this is completely untrue. Microsoft are still a very innovative company.