MoorshouJun 10, 2024

Is Microsoft a bad company?

https://lemmy.zip/post/17122529

Is Microsoft a bad company? - Lemmy.zip

I was curious what the Linux people think about Microsoft and any bad practices that most people should know about already?

Show threadSonotsugipaaJun 10, 2024

Microsoft is definitely the corpoest of them all.

Probably not the worst corpo, likely even, but out of the corpos, they are the most corpo corpo of any corpo.

  • They own LinkedIn, and I could just stop this list here.
  • They’re the founding fathers of Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.
  • They are the vanguard of videogame studio consolidation, after buying Activision and Bethesda.
  • AI
  • Everything they do is soggy bread: you can eat it, it’s probably mostly healthy, I think, but if a product is not the minimum viable product then it will be; take the Halo franchise as a reference for blandness, Windows for end user tolerance - both are controversial yet functional and popular software that people complain (and do nothing) about. Halo took quite a hit in popularity, but still…
  • Remember when a software company got in trouble for monopolistic practices? That was a thing that happened at some point, and it was Microsoft. Not that it will ever happen again, nowadays all the cool kids have some slice of the tech landscape on a chokehold.
    • United States v. Microsoft Corp. - Wikipedia

    Show threaddelirious_owlJun 11, 2024
    Worse than Apple?
    Show threadgreyw0lv

    Apple is highly restrictive on their OS and over priced. They are extremely pro consumerism with heavy marketing and engineered obsolescence to ensure you are always pressured to buy their new tech, and they are historically very strongly anti-right-to-repair.

    Microsoft is bad. But at least they are primarily a software monopoly.

    Jun 11, 2024 at 3:05pmWeb