I used to really love Windows. However, it really angers me on how Microsoft is incrementally destroying it by adding more, and more AI while simultaneously making it harder to remove with each update. I don’t understand what their developers working on Windows are thinking on what real-world consumers are going to use all of this AI stuff for, and exactly on why they are making this stuff harder to uninstall for Windows PC users that don’t want agentic/AI features in their desktop OS. Does anyone have thoughts on this?
If you look at how much money they make and what percentage of profit they get from Windows and consumer electronics they make, that would make it clear for where their priorities are and why. It’s about 10%. MSFT is a B2B service provider now. They don’t care as much for Windows and computers you and I use everyday anymore. They are now an AI and Cloud first company. And everyone is missing this point as they try to come to wrap their heads around what the hell MSFT are doing.
Windows is dead. People are not accepting this or fail to see it.
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Sad, but probably true.
You have to understand that Microsoft is a modern publicly traded corporation, which means their primary objective is make line go up more fasterer. Right now, for Microsoft, that means cramming AI into every hole they can find. It’s not about the user experience or long term company planning. They can get away with this because the vast majority of institutions in the developed world are highly dependent on Microsoft and even if they screw up the US gov will just bail them out.
It is not about what the developers want or are thinking. It is about what will make the shareholders happy. Developers are essentially now just ballast for big tech corporations when they can’t seem to get line to go up more quickerer: Microsoft's largest layoff in years hits Xbox, sales and other divisions