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0 pointswaihtis10mo ago0 comments

You really think Microsoft has been ”cool” for the past decade or so?

First the rampant spyware, then they gradually wreck every single piece of software into unusable buggy AI-slop-mess just to play the trashy MBA valuation games.

I still hold nostalgic value for the old OSes (say up to XP/7) but everything after has been nothing but maximal profit extraction.

Dont get me started on Azure

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riffraff10mo ago

Not OP, but I do.

The '90s/00s era of people hating on M$ and picturing them as the Borg had left room to the 10s/20s of MS being "friendly" and releasing open source and free things (typescript, vs code, core.net, wsl, work on python etc) and not completely screwing up acquisitions like GitHub or Mojang.

Windows became adware, and office became some crappy online thing, but _microsoft_ had became nicer and gained goodwill.

This seems to have started evaporating in the last year or so.

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crinkly10mo ago

Yeah that.

HN has a short memory. About 10 years ago everyone was all over Satya like he was Jesus' second coming.

Look where we are now.

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