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AI Is Killing Microsoft (futurism.com)
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[–] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's a tricky thing, because shareholder value is entirely vibes based. Microsoft is demonstrably losing market share, approval from users, and functionality of the OS. While it's understandable to want to chase new trends, long term OS stability and compatibility for the average user was their golden goose, and they're killing it. We're seeing people move away from windows, which 5 years ago would have been an impossibility.

It's slow to act, but the more market share something like Linux gets, the more it tends to snowball in terms of public opinion. That definitely has the possibility of eating a significant chunk of MS revenue.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I hope they don't figure it out and back off completely until Linux has enough market share to force software companies to design for Linus as much as Macintosh at a minimum. I really hope that windows figures out their shit and makes a good OS again in the future but they've shown time and time again they can't be a monopoly without enshitification being their main plan, be it when they almost got broken up 30 years ago and they propped up Apple as a "competitor" which was a joke at the time or now with everything they did with 8 and now 11 they need to be him led like IBM was and become a background player maybe useful for buisness ventures but not powerful enough to delay competitive advances to keep their market share.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Problem is they barely have reason to care at all about Windows, it's only 4.2% of their revenue even with their formidable presence in the market. That might even include their microsoft store cut, making the OS itself even less of a significant money driver.

    So they feel it becomes more valuable to try to use that to promote their more profitable cloud services, make the users rent everything.

    However, a huge warning sign for them should be the relative pittance of "consumer" cloud revenue. Suggests that all the efforts to try to milk the consumer market is for naught, as consumers just don't want to spend that money on renting office software or storage. So moves that make their consumer desktop user hostile have negligible upside but may ultimately threaten their position in the 70% of their revenue that is business customers. They got those business customers in a consumer-first play where home computers set specific expectations the businesses embrassed, and they could lose that the same way.

    Especially in a world where the only software most users use is a web browser, and games are the biggest non-browser software that remains, but Valve is having a decent success pushing non-Windows story.

    Some games DRM or anti-cheat makes Windows the only option, but the gamers grow weary of all that BS too.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    With Windows 11, every stupid thing you save on your computer, a copy automatically goes up into the cloud and fills your allotment and then they want you to buy more cloud space. I have a ton of Google cloud space not being used so just sent all that there and deleted the microsoft cloud stuff... and shut down the permissions for files to be sent there. They want $19.99 a month for more cloud space! I am not a huge fan of Google but my space there is less expensive also... I have a hard drive I am backing my files up to but I have had the sad experience of corrupted drives...

    I need to learn more about Linux. I am not particularly tech knowledgeable... just what I have been able to pick up while working, I am in my 60s (did not have computers in HS, a small computer lab in college... I grew up analog).

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