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Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge::Microsoft Edge is full of fantastic features, but the tech company makes it hard to appreciate them.
Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge::Microsoft Edge is full of fantastic features, but the tech company makes it hard to appreciate them.
I’ve been a MS products fan since Windows Phone, Cortana, and OneNote stole my heart. I loved the great features that Windows 10 and Edge provided out-of-the box. Bing provided better results than Google for some time.
But Phone was never accepted by the market, and with it, Cortana faded away. OneNote hasn’t kept up with the market, and they somehow broke the cursor on mobile. Sticky Notes lost compatibility with Dark Mode. They started pushing ads to Windows start menu, and embedded ads in Edge Collections.
Microsoft makes great software, then fuck it all up. Oh well, back to Linux.
ha. ive spent my entire career installing and managing microsoft products. top to bottom. soup to nuts. client to server… for 40 years. my bread and butter relies on microsoft.
its all garbage, and their quality control is actually getting worse.
this entire post is fanboi fiction.
I’ve been using Microsoft products since the early days of DOS, and the only product that truly impressed me was NT; it was a breath of fresh air as a developer, with its new kernel and much improved stability. Finally, we could develop for windows and not have the OS crash!
Everything else has driven me nuts, and their quality had definitely gone drastically down hill. Their software now is a bloated mess of ugly, especially windows. How did we get to an OS that installs so many gigs of files? Holy crap!
I try to always use Firefox and never use Edge.
Are you me? Get out of my brain!
NT changed everything.
Windows 10 is labelled NT10 internally
Windows XP 64 bit edition was Microsofts peak, everything has been downhill from there. Microsoft Research (a child company of Microsoft proper) does some really cool stuff. Everything interesting/good to come out of MS in the last couple decades started there, and then the main Microsoft company got ahold of it and inevitably cocked it up.
For a brief period of time I was hopeful that MS had turned over a new leaf when they started to opensource their dev software like VS Code and typescript, but that’s always been a bait and switch. They’re handing carrots out to developers while simultaneously beating their normal customers with sticks.
i never believed their heart open source phase, and i still think they are trying to figure out how to eee stuff like linux
why cortana? its the thing i most wanted to be able to uninstall…
On mobile, when everyone was releasing their new voice assistant technologies, Cortana outperformed them all. On desktop I agree that Cortana was a waste of space.