No, not generally
They just changed their main market target, so some users (that used to be their main clients, like home PC users) saw decline in MicroSoft's product quality
I really shouldn't have to if you have any idea what good software is
Google is probably the best at it
I don't care about their share price or the acquisitions they've made, their software is just bad and it's a tragedy that they control so much of AI currently other than for the money
Like the quality of AI services we would've had by now if Google or Apple had been the ones to control OpenAI is ridiculous compared to the absolute shit show that is Bing
Just the homepage of Bing reminds me of some fricking Chinese streaming website and their Roboto font for Copilot isn't even rendering properly
That depends. Are you a shareholder? If so, Microsoft keeps getting better. If you're someone who wants to use their computer for day to day tasks without being bothered with ads and constant shitty UI redesigns by people who would rather work for Apple but can't get hired there, then you're worse off.
Shareholders can use other OSes and other software if they don't like Microsoft stuff. That doesn't stop them from making a huge profit owning Microsoft stock.
Microsoft has gotten better, but they still have some upsetting legacy portions of the business that still do shit like threaten OEMs that want to ship OSes other than Windows, fund expensive proxy-attacks against competitors, and try to force the continued relevance of an OS that survives purely on the inertia of IBM licensing MS DOS.
Corporate should kick those divisions to the curb, and discontinue their drain on Microsoft's resources so they can become purely a profit generating enterprise cloud services company.
Define worse, because as a company it has gotten bigger and more profitable. They've some core differences between departments and management hell, ironically they're good at working with confusing designs. Which is also one of its weak points.
Most IQfy sees them from the Consumer Desktop point of view, which is very limited, Windows has not been the main product for almost a decade. Teams, Intune, PowerBI, and other Azure related solutions have been what brings the money, they're good products, even if managing them can be difficult. Whomever says "MS Teams is shit", again, most are people who has never dealt with CDR files and Cisco bullshit, migrating to Teams for a lot of business makes sense, same goes for other solutions that substitute other obsolete solutions, we're not talking about Desktop apps with shitty UIs, but data solutions, you can just make another UI with their API if you need.
They were always shit, the difference is back then there was no better alternative and now there is. There is literally zero reason to still use microshit slop in the current year unless you have babyduck or stockholm syndrome.
Since videogames are software, this makes microsoft the worst software company in existence. You may think that's a stretch to say, but they allude to it by the very fact they have so much invested in AI as a coping mechanism to fix all the problems they themselves cause by not being talented in the first place.
Microsoft has passed Google in almost every measure because Google has been dedicating tremendous resources to figuring out which troony holidays to make doodles for. Instead Microsoft just puts up a rainbow.
The secret joke is the rainbow has been a symbol of Christianity for 2000 years. Don't tell the queers.
The nature of their internal motto "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", means that they engage in a cycle of entering into an existing market with a baited hook, pushing some proprietary extensions that sabotage interoperability unless integrated into the products of the competition and then reeling it into the larger Microsoft market.
Naturally once Extinguish part of the motto happens, the userbase and developers can observe a reduction in quality, since Microsoft are now middlemen for the rest of the market and have no more incentive to provide a good product.
Yes
No, not generally
They just changed their main market target, so some users (that used to be their main clients, like home PC users) saw decline in MicroSoft's product quality
They're the same shitty corp they always were, people are just moronic and have no long term memory anymore
The quality of their software is even worse than before except VSCode and maybe a few others
Explain
I really shouldn't have to if you have any idea what good software is
Google is probably the best at it
I don't care about their share price or the acquisitions they've made, their software is just bad and it's a tragedy that they control so much of AI currently other than for the money
Like the quality of AI services we would've had by now if Google or Apple had been the ones to control OpenAI is ridiculous compared to the absolute shit show that is Bing
Just the homepage of Bing reminds me of some fricking Chinese streaming website and their Roboto font for Copilot isn't even rendering properly
This. I'm amazed how much worse VS is compared to IntelliJ or other Jetbrains IDEs
Microsoft has been bad longer than it's been good
That depends. Are you a shareholder? If so, Microsoft keeps getting better. If you're someone who wants to use their computer for day to day tasks without being bothered with ads and constant shitty UI redesigns by people who would rather work for Apple but can't get hired there, then you're worse off.
Over the past ten years, Microsoft's share price has increased by nearly 12x while overall inflation for that period was 31%. Pretty good results.
Do shareholders not want to use their computers?
Shareholders can use other OSes and other software if they don't like Microsoft stuff. That doesn't stop them from making a huge profit owning Microsoft stock.
They were never good to begin with. What's different is that they can't make decent software anymore.
Microsoft is good at making money, that's why the stock is rising. They suck in all other fronts
Yes but the rest of the nonindustry has also
There's no one making good software so you may as well use properly free software
Noooooooo, oooof cooourse not. I won't change anything about.
doesn't matter since i don't use the os itself but the software thats installed on it.
Putting my objective hat on and disregarding nostalgia for the 1990's and early 2000's, Microsoft has most certainly gotten better over time
Microsoft has gotten better, but they still have some upsetting legacy portions of the business that still do shit like threaten OEMs that want to ship OSes other than Windows, fund expensive proxy-attacks against competitors, and try to force the continued relevance of an OS that survives purely on the inertia of IBM licensing MS DOS.
Corporate should kick those divisions to the curb, and discontinue their drain on Microsoft's resources so they can become purely a profit generating enterprise cloud services company.
Define worse, because as a company it has gotten bigger and more profitable. They've some core differences between departments and management hell, ironically they're good at working with confusing designs. Which is also one of its weak points.
Most IQfy sees them from the Consumer Desktop point of view, which is very limited, Windows has not been the main product for almost a decade. Teams, Intune, PowerBI, and other Azure related solutions have been what brings the money, they're good products, even if managing them can be difficult. Whomever says "MS Teams is shit", again, most are people who has never dealt with CDR files and Cisco bullshit, migrating to Teams for a lot of business makes sense, same goes for other solutions that substitute other obsolete solutions, we're not talking about Desktop apps with shitty UIs, but data solutions, you can just make another UI with their API if you need.
They were always shit, the difference is back then there was no better alternative and now there is. There is literally zero reason to still use microshit slop in the current year unless you have babyduck or stockholm syndrome.
Because they are below you, above you, around you.
c suite really does talk like this at org all hands
Yeah, I've never gotten as many blue screens as I have with windows 11, and I used Windows Me for a while back in the early oughts.
Since videogames are software, this makes microsoft the worst software company in existence. You may think that's a stretch to say, but they allude to it by the very fact they have so much invested in AI as a coping mechanism to fix all the problems they themselves cause by not being talented in the first place.
Microsoft has passed Google in almost every measure because Google has been dedicating tremendous resources to figuring out which troony holidays to make doodles for. Instead Microsoft just puts up a rainbow.
The secret joke is the rainbow has been a symbol of Christianity for 2000 years. Don't tell the queers.
The nature of their internal motto "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", means that they engage in a cycle of entering into an existing market with a baited hook, pushing some proprietary extensions that sabotage interoperability unless integrated into the products of the competition and then reeling it into the larger Microsoft market.
Naturally once Extinguish part of the motto happens, the userbase and developers can observe a reduction in quality, since Microsoft are now middlemen for the rest of the market and have no more incentive to provide a good product.
>Has Microsoft gotten worse over time?
Surprisingly, they've gotten better.