What is Microsoft doing? Everyone was giving them a pass recently. Because they had this so called Linux subsystem. Even people I worked with were using it. And Bill Gates was curing AIDS in Africa. And building schools and mosquito nets and vaccines, but then he got divorced because he was fucking underaged girls in the epstein files.

Edit: yes I know gates doesn’t run Microsoft anymore. It’s an image thing though.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 14 points 23 hours ago

I discovered that removing Cortana also removed typing as far as windows is concerned. I could type in anything but OS controls.

I needed to reinstall "basic typing" to work again (their advice is "delete your language pack, then reinstall it, after reinstalling Cortana")

[–] tyfon@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago

Windows 11

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

What is Microsoft doing?

Whatever it is, it's not part of the modern digital infrastructure.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

What is Microsoft doing?

In the world of digital infrastructure? Azure would be one big one. In this image, it would probably be a stone next to, or above AWS. Windows server and IIS, though that's not that important in the grand scheme of things (or is becoming less so each passing year). MS-SQL is still a thing. .NET and its frameworks are a bit more important and lower down on this graph, luckily they're also open source now. Having a stone as separate floating by itself is a little disingenuous if not ignorant, but we can forgive OP, since it is Microsoft :)

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago

Microsoft has gotten a lot of good will in recent years with a few moves:

VS Code being good and open source
TypeScript
Buying Github and not immediately running it 8ntobthe ground
Linux friendliness, WSL
probably more that I'm forgetting

However as Windows 11 shows, they are still the 90s Microsoft in a good disguise. Also, fuck Azure.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Probably Excel and Word alongside the already mentioned things