Did the headline just tell me that, enshitification, something which is always by design, is by design?
Under Satya Nadella and Amy Hood, Microsoft has become a glorified investment bank, bereft of delivering innovation
This rings true. No one thinks that MS is doing anything special. They need a unique product and they need to get it into a lot of peoples hands.
If i were MS, I’d switch to ARM or better yet RISC-V and make some extremely efficient devivces that run both Windows and their complete office stack.
They are someone on this trajectory by converting Outlook to a PWA but it’s not fast enough.
Just about all of the O365 apps can be run as PWA, with some working better than others. Shifting to a device-centric model would basically make them Apple, but, 30 years late to the party.
I know I’m not offering solutions, but what I will say is, I associate Microsoft with 3 things, now, that were not the case 20 years ago. Their focus is purely about shareholder value, not customer value.
- Data harvesting as a business pillar
- Forced adoption of Copilot (Jamming it into Swiftkey really pissed me off)
- Ads
People shit on Apple a lot, and many for very good reasons, but Apple has the customer base it does because it is actively engaged in keeping them happy with their products, not trying to jam AI down their throats, sell them and their data to the highest bidder, etc. Microsoft has the customer base it does because inertia is hard to break. I’ve never met an Apple user that said “I hate this, I’m going to Windows”. Most Apple users I know are Windows ex-pats.
I know I can’t be on here being all happy about Apple, but I can’t be a Linux fanboy like most of Lemmy, either.
Linux.
Mint
I’m not sure how Microsoft can enshittify: all of Microsoft products have been shit to begin with.
