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- windows11@lemmy.world
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It would be nice if they change the Office app back to its old name, rather than M365 Copilot or whatever insane nonsense they picked. They should also review their corporate culture, and how the way they set performance rewards leads to insane unintended consequences across the company.
Office has been Microsoft 365 for five years now. They added “Copilot” to the name at some point last year, but it’s been M365 for a while.
Tbf 5 years ago is 2021 and I remember disliking Microsoft’s decisions even back then.
Oh, absolutely–but back then it was just normal, ordinary platform decay, not the sparkling AI hellscape of today.
Bullshit and too late, bitches
Too late! That and requiring TPM and SecureBoot made me switch. I love it.
don’t believe it. ms is in for the long game.
too late. saw win95 and ran
LOL, I won when I installed Mint.
Cheers
Too late, trust is already gone and im old enough to know all of this is CEOs bullshit and pure marketing.
Thats bad actually, the free advertising to linux was a good thing. Now Windows users will slip back into apathy.
Windows will continue to degrade as Microsoft fires more of its professional staff and turns to “Vibes Coding” for increasingly delicate systems development. They’ll keep pushing out the OS as a vector for unwanted third-party advertisements. They’ll keep ratcheting user control of the OS away from the hardware owners. And they’ll keep injecting bloatware into their applications and services.
This isn’t the end of enshitification. It is a brief retreat and regrouping by a company that has invested tens of billions of dollars into the AI sunk cost.
I hope you’re right because I am enjoying Microsoft’s failures and I would like them to continue.
I wish these were proper failures. They’re such an entrenched monopoly, a whole lot would have to change before a $3.2T company sees any kind of tangible penalties.
I read “a major shit”
Oh, and only now am I re-reading it to see that’s not what it actually said…
common freudian slip when talking about windows
It mostly looks like a mild slow down of user-facing release and rebrand of unpopular features.
It is not a retreat. The marketing team is just trying to figure out how to reframe things that caused public backlash.
The only thing they’re rethinking is how to repackage this so people accept it. They learned a lot from this, but I promise you it wasn’t the right lesson.
Like, even if they do listen to the community, it still isn’t good enough for the Linux shills on here.
God, the Linux community is so uptight. It really doesn’t do FOSS any favour acting like this.
It would be less bad if they could all agree to one recommended distro, but even that is an impossibility.
Your problem with the Linux community is that there’s a lot of options? I cannot understand how that’s a bad thing. If there was only one distro it would be the same as now, but with less diversity.
The reason this isn’t good enough is that it’s a shallow capitulation by a company still massively over invested in AI. Nobody believes Microsoft is actually going to give up on shoving AI down people’s throats, they’re just gonna be more subtle about it now.
Microslop Microslop Microslop. Microslop?
Microslop.
…for now.
I swear. Society at large will never learn from Microsoft’s games.
I won? Of course I did, I don’t use Windows anymore, I’ve been using Linux for years now.
