Turns out you can make more money by reducing usability and user choice in an entrenched product because hardly anyone will baulk and jump ship to a different product.
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invertedspear@lemm.ee 6 months ago
WTF happened to Microsoft? What a fall. Is this a leadership thing?
richmondez@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They were always about screwing over consumers to make money. The only thing that changed is that they’ve become increasingly unsubtle about it.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Their way to screw customers with W2K was very persuasive. Such a clean UI, everything looking so relaxed and, eh, not commercialized. That startup sound. Those wallpapers.
Later I learned that that’s also when they released those Unix services for Windows (may have swapped words), with which you really could have something practical with an X server and POSIX-compatible applications and so on.
And compared to W9x it was very stable.