• BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They are purposely enshittifying windows already, they don’t give a shit about making a functional OS anymore and are in the milking their products for all their worth phase and right now Ai is the hot seller.

    Hopefully they will be so shortsighted and suffocate themselves with this Ai hype.

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      4 months ago

      Hopefully they will be so shortsighted and suffocate themselves with this Ai hype.

      waves from over in the linux corner seize the day, and microsoft’s throat :P

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        4 months ago

        Just installed Linux Mint the first time last month. Been very much enjoying the experience of a M$ free OS.

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          4 months ago

          Hell yeah, it is so much easier than it used to be right?

          How was your experience?

          Any tips for someone who might be about to do the same?

          Did you create a ritual pyre of Microsoft jewel cases and old manuals and stuff and burn it while dancing around it chanting burnnn babyyy burnnn?

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          4 months ago

          Windows Phone was never given a chance to pan out. There wasn’t space for Windows Phone to force its way on the scene when it finally began to fire on all cylinders as a smartphone OS but they were building a critical mass of loyal users that would have set up Microsoft longterm to successfully exploit the opportunity to when it came.

          It is wild to me that upper management at Microsoft was too dumb to understand that and just killed their perfectly good apparatus for gaining a foothold on the mobile market. Simply put a tech company that large should always be thinking seriously about maintaining a practical entrance to an industry as important to their bottom line as this.

          They are fools and they ultimately threw mud in the face of the small amount of windows phone fans (of which there definitely were loyal fans especially for the great Nokia cameras and extremely focused UI) who could have delivered that initial burst of energy and excitement/growth when the opportunity eventually did come. Thus they have actually sealed and barricaded the door to Microsoft ever EVER being in the mobile space since they betrayed ALL of the early adopter nerds who would have stuck around for the rough beginning.