Wow. Microsoft exists because they’ve built an effective monopoly. Plain and simple. Their products don’t suck but they absolutely would not survive if they completed in a free market environment. They are staffed with legions of engineers who see it as a safe haven metaphorically or literally (visa workers)
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masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Another former OpenAI employee agreed, saying people working at the San Francisco-based startup “look down on what they consider legacy companies” and “see themselves as innovators who are radically changing the world.”
I despise Microsoft’s advertising and some of its anti-competitive practices, but man, fuck these out of touch dorks. Microsoft has been making products for 30 years that are stable enough for like most of the world’s companies to build successful businesses on top of.
Outside of Google and Salesforce, there’s virtually no SV companies that can claim the same.
It’s a beautiful place and the money that flows into it makes it seem like paradise, but it also deludes everyone there into thinking that they’re vastly smarter and more important than they actually are.
cleverusernametry@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Defaced@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The only reason any of those businesses use Microsoft products is because of active directory and exchange. Both of which are legacy products that are being, if not already, phased out. The real truth is this, the enterprise runs on Microsoft, but the world runs on Linux. Windows is so bad for containers that Microsoft has to make their own distro of Linux specifically for containers with azure Linux and that’s just one example of the technical debt Windows creates. The quicker NT can finally die is when the world can finally move towards real innovation instead of being handicapped by Microsoft and their unfair business practices. Some of us haven’t forgotten “embrace, extend, and extinguish” which is exactly what they’re doing in the gaming markets by buying up the competition.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
From an IT perspective it’s active directory and exchange (and lol no they’re not being faced out, there’s nothing better to replace them), but from a business process standpoint it’s because of Outlook and Excel.
Defaced@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They actually are being phased out. Traditional AD powered through LDAP is going the way of the dodo with the inception of azure AD and exchange is getting replaced by o365 for business. As for Outlook, the latest version is trash and Excel is great for the most part but when you build entire workflows out of Excel with Oracle connections and pivot tables it’s complete dog shit to manage from an IT perspective. There’s a reason damn near every web server ruins through Apache on a Linux box instead of IIS.
aubertlone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I literally create AD groups as a small part of my job
Obviously, I can’t go into any more details just in case. Yes, certainly Linux is King of the server world.
But your information is not up to date. We’re not going to Azure anytime soon. Congratulations, you are making broad sweeping claims that just don’t hold up to the least amount of investigation.
ddkman@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The truth is, faceless datacenters run linux. PEOPLE run Windows.
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Only because they don’t know any better. Microsoft’s marketing and retail reach are what decide that, not the people’s informed decision making.