Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

• jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the only reason those are successful is because they’re just very entrenched in large corporations. They’re successful if the users are forced to use their stuff, but nobody loves anything Microsoft makes, so they always fail on the consumer side (Xbox being the exception, I guess).

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    nobody loves anything Microsoft makes

    Excel is life. Although I do get annoyed about the data limitations.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Excel is their best product. But it literally came out in 1987 and has some of the same limitations… from 1987.

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    • d3lta19@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My life would change drastically for the worse without Excel.

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s true of Xbox too. Two decades and all they have to show for it are the same washed up IPs from 15+ years ago, and a large checkbook. They acquire studios and IPs and bring them down to mediocrity.

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    • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, I guess here it applies as well, nobody loves windows or the Xbox itself, they just love the games that are exclusively there.

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      • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There aren’t many exclusives, and recently they’ve been bought. Forza is one of the only that come to mind when thinking of in-house.

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