PC Gaming

What I find funny and I realized it a bunch of years ago: whenever consumers have actual choice of an alternative product and aren't forced into the Microsoft product because of Microsoft's monopolies, people tend to pick the competition.

Windows Phone: consumers chose Android and iPhone.

Xbox: consumers chose PlayStation and Nintendo.

Handheld gaming PC: Steam Deck.

Chat (MSN, Skype,...): WhatsApp and a plethora of alternatives. (Businesses use Teams because of Office monopoly.)

Edge browser: Chrome.

WMA: MP3.

Games shop (Xbox/Microsoft Store): Steam.

No, just burn it down. Those tiny pieces are still toxic as fuck.

Yeah the company I have worked for for a long time is growing, this year it has become apparent that some upper dudes have no clue what actually happens and just give direction they dreamed up that they think is how things work. The next level down is like just ignore that, that's not how we get things done.

I get that the upper level is supposed to provide long term stragegy,(and some are brilliant minds) but when executive decisions are getting made when they don't want to hear about the actual detail, there are poor choices made in an arrogant sort of way, and everyone just does an off camera face palm

Their users are shareholders, their product is profit, and their consequences are bonuses.

they could've just sat back and raked in tons of cash by improving existing services

but nooooo, the profits must endlessly increase, and we needs twice as many tons of cash, so enshitty it all until it bursts we shall

You didn’t describe a problem exclusive to Miscrosft. You described the entire problem with Capitalism. Endless growth is fiction; yet corporations are beholden to shareholders that demand endless growth.

And yet, they don't improve the quality of windows. Bugs that have existed in Windows 7, 10, and even 11 go unfixed. Features that would make windows more secure aren't implemented but hey, copilot takes screenshots out our screen and stores everything creating a massive security issue and Microsoft just pushes it down users throats for profit?

I get that Microsoft needs to make money, but the way they are going about it is stupid and should be studied because the more they push copilot and other privacy invading "features" the more they force users to switch to Mac or Linux.