Are you suggesting that Rolling Stone editors have any idea what they are writing about?
What are computers for besides audio and browsers?
Well…
That's a simple way of looking at it and you're ignoring the real source of the problem. I know in some practical sense you're right. But it's also in a practical sense that I say we would all be better off if Linux was more popular and more software was written for it. But unfortunately, we live in the real-life version of Idiocracy where the "my team" mentality prevents us from actual thinking of the future. Whether something works now is the most important feature, even if it abuses and diminishes us daily.
I agree on this and all previous posts, I tried win11 a couple of times and always went back to 10. And that was before the non sense AI injection everywhere.
Pretty sure Office was always the main earner (before cloud days), with Windows being a second, but maybe my memory fails me.
And Nadella's insistence that Azure embrace Linux has been a lynchpin of that strategy. Made them #2 in the cloud space, for certain. Linux, where it shines, in the server space.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with technology. Having been with all three in meetings where they were selling services to clients, the other two are just weird and undisciplined. Google simply don’t understand the enterprise (to the point where clients were asking to not bring them to meetings at all because they just don’t get what they’re being asked about and keep blabbering about all the tech stuff nobody is interested in). Amazon are better but they can just fail to show up in a call they themselves organized. In fact, a year ago they called a conference, invited a bunch of CEOs and such, but forgot to book a venue or prepare something because they didn’t communicate between departments properly.
So the event got cancelled a week before the date, everybody had to cancel tickets, hotel bookings etc. And now that they’re laying off middle management it’ll only get worse. Microsoft are simply the only adults in this space. Not that they don’t have their own blunders but not nearly to the extent the other two routinely perform. And if you’re an enterprise who will depend on a service, you really need to talk to somebody who makes sense and can show up on time. You’d think it’s not rocket science but apparently it is even more difficult for some.
