This is another Windows Phone. They shaft the entire platform for a decade to fulfil some stupid fucked up half baked ideology.
Imagine Windows if they invested in their customers rather than their stock price and ego. Imagine if they became a bastion of privacy and security. Imagine if they became someone we could trust.
Windows Phone was very costly, but did not have much negative impact on existing products - Windows/Office etc?
So erm, it probably wouldn't make any meaningful difference?
Notably one of our biggest security threat vectors is actually Windows. The security model on it is so crap it's either locked down so it's completely unusable via GPOs and behind DLP proxies and firewalls. Or the risk is accepted and as a regulated industry we get fined to death if anything goes wrong.
So no we aren't happy, we don't trust them but we have to gargle it anyway.
Forced to trust them. Windows is the default at most companies, and the cheapest laptops on the market (the ones that will shove ads all over Edge and your start menu) run Windows also.
You're missing the point. Think of the actual Windows user: it's not the average joe/jane that get the oem laptop with windows pre-installed, it's the big IT departments that are going to not only ship tens of thousands of windows machines (with "professional" tier licenses) but also the whole bundle of expensive shit (office, outlook, teams, office364, active directory and the whole thing).
Have you focused on those customers?
Ok now think: what alternatives do those customer have? Pretty much NONE.
If you're thinking GNU/Linux you're being unrealistic. GNU/Linux on non-tech workers' desktop will always be ready next year, every year.
If you're thinking Macbooks... No IT budget is deep enough for that.
Microsoft has no need to worry about their customers as Windows users. They have no other place to go anyway.
> a former executive who left as a result of the changes said products like Azure Cognitive Search, Azure AI Bot Service, and Kinect DK are practically gone.
I'm familiar with the first two and... good riddance. These only kept on existing because of marketing money being pumped into selling them to inept nincompoops. These products are exclusively meant for people with purchasing power but zero understanding of turning ideas into actual software.
Not really the same thing as “half a tweet and a daydream of an editor”.
Lol no. Intelligence of an apple did not curb stomped anything. Including apples. So far regulators like EU and countries like China curbstomped the fruit intelligence.
They're also Sales, Marketing, and Channel Partner Management for OpenAI.
Nor should they, Oracle is awful!
