• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It’s always baffled me how Microslop’s entire business model as far back as I can remember seems to be “Make the shittiest possible version of every product imaginable, then watch it for some reason become the global standard, then make it even worse and suffer no consequences.”

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        2 months ago

        They can afford to have AI fail, almost every business in Europe and the US buys their software. That’s not going away anytime soon

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          2 months ago

          That made me wonder what os china uses. Turns out they use a chinese made linux distro called kylin for most consumer desktops and 90% of govenment desktops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)

          Fucking based.

          Unfortunately its propriotary ): (pretty sure that violates the gpl but I guess china doent care.) (Although there is an open source version called neokylin!)

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    2 months ago

    WTF even is a Microsoft SlopC? Something that has hardware to speed up their AI deleting important files and sending your private data to hackers? I don’t think we need that fast-tracked, Windows 11 already does it well enough.

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    2 months ago

    I couldn’t understand Microsoft’s motivation here at all, until this reminder (from the linked article):

    This development doesn’t bode well for Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, who saw the company miss the platform shift to mobile devices and tablets and desperately wants to avoid chalking up another failure in yet another momentous platform shift.

    it makes so much sense to me now

    emphasis on “desperately” for sure