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Sucks for those that lost their jobs, but this sounds promising. Layer after layer of management slows everything down. It turns a 1 hour task into a 3 month crawl of endless meetings and back and forth and waiting.
The problem with companies like Microsoft is that they’ve become completely pointless. They don’t innovate anymore. They don’t make anything useful. If you make Microsoft more efficient, they’ll just suck ass more efficiently.
They have a shitton of other products, services, and tech though?
Just because it's not marketed at you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I interact with the development ecosystem that Microsoft largely controls. They're constantly doing new stuff there.
Shit megacorps? Yeah. No innovation? No.
The problem is that they're too fucking big. Office used to be the shining star of Microsoft, but now, it's a total piece of shit. My company recently switched from Google to Microsoft, and holy shit, it's a downgrade.
Outlook is the biggest pile of shit software I've encountered in years. It's eventually consistent but without user feedback, it's very slow, meeting rooms aren't consistent about meeting room responses, email filtering rules don't work reliably... I could go on.
Word sucks, too. Google Docs is way easier to use. In Word, copy and paste doesn't work as you'd expect, even from Word doc to Word doc, there's no templating in OneDrive, there aren't shared folders unless you set up a whole SharePoint site... I could go on here, too.
It's this stupid, stupid focus on AI tools. AI ain't making shit better! AI shouldn't replace humans or things humans work on: it should augment humans. Products still need development on UX. AI should be incorporated into UX without being shoved down our throats. But these dumbass investors who don't understand tech are jumping on the fucking bandwagon, and execs are towing the line.
Sorry for the rant, but Microsoft is more than just development tools.
Also, they need to get ads out of my fucking operating system. I don't want my operating system natively communicating with the internet and recommending news stories. Fucking cancer
Sorry but this is completely untrue. Microsoft are still a very innovative company.
Weird, it’s been at least a decade since I encountered a Microsoft product that wasn’t actively getting worse.
You must not use many. The many Microsoft programs I use every day have only gotten better over time - windows, SQL management studio, visual studio, visual studio code, windows terminal, WSL, Azure storage explorer, To Do, Office, and even the much maligned Teams has improved significantly.
Microsoft Office is a paradigmatic example of enshittification. But you do you.
How so? I’ve used multiple office products every day at work for the last 20 years and have only noticed them getting better and better. If I could have any version of any of them to use right now it would be the current ones.