Microsoft did one good thing: they finally got me to jump to a Linux based OS on my PC.
Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments
Submitted 3 weeks ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Why did not just keep windows 10, change the background picture and call it windows 11?
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s that? More AI? -Microsoft-
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You’re absolutely right about this. I jumped ships too.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Do they ever?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Moving from a shitty proprietary web renderer to participate in Chromium development was an improvement.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
I disagree. Doing so reduced the amount of diversity in rendering engines and reinforced the idea that lazy site owners don’t have to test against more than one browser. That’s a loss for the Web as a whole.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tried that browser on Linux. It crashes when you save a file. It doesn’t let you click on the URL bar to edit it (only keyboard works). “If it compiles, it ships, no testing needed”
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The company was literally founded on the principal of “thanks for all the free software I learned on, from this point forward, everyone needs to pay (me) for everything and sharing is bad”. Sort of paraphrased from Bill Gates email to the hobbyists. Then it got big by selling vapourware based on nepotism and then nearly stealing a product to fill the order. Then they got their fingers into legislators and it got worse for everyone.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The dumped legacy protocols and defaults that were insecure. That’s pretty big for a company that historically doesn’t do that.
cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Their Linux marketing department seems to have been quite effective over the last year.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are some decent performance and memory improvements in .Net 10, particularly around iterators and local variables within iterator scopes.
Beyond that, na, not much.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A .Net dev in the flesh? I’ll pray for you /s
PushButton@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
.NET is an excellent platform, c# and typescript are amazing (made by the same guy btw.), Visual Studio and VSCode are the best in their categories.
Nothing really replace Excel (don’t even mention LibreOffice, that’s gonna make you look like a dunkey)
Gaming and hardware support still better on Windows.
The spyware are perfected like no other company can make them, as their nagging system, which you can’t really get rid of.
Scaling your infrastructure on Azure is the easiest, as for scaling your bills, it’s demonstrated in TFA.
Having some price hikes, from time to time, keep the excitement alive, see the latest github price hike tentative.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Did they really need ai to make a dumpster fire with the Microsoft logo for them. Jesus Christ pay someone to spend 30 minutes in an online Photoshop clone. I’m so sick of ai images.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When was the last time they did anything right? I manage their products and services for a living. it all sucks to some degree. It’s just the default because they cornered the market a long time ago and continue to strangle it to death with legacy garbage. Now they don’t innovate, they acquire other shit to compete where they shouldn’t, fail, rinse and repeat.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I maintain that Microsoft peaked with Windows 3.1 and they’ve been fucking it up ever since.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think peak was XP.
Vista was shit. 7 was alright, but not better than XP. 8 was terrible. 10 was worse than 7, but still meh. 11 is dog shit.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
XP was when everything went to shit. It was awful and all the enshittification began right there.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
my older brother thinks they peaked with win 95. I think they peaked with Win 98 SE.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Having played around with it recently, I have to say the ui was pretty bad (try it: www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.11/ ) Go to Windows 95 and you get all the basic desktop ui principals that modern desktops use.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I grew up with it so to me, the UI was great.
I’m from the line command era.
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
So the only win here is that you got to extend your time on Windows 10 for one year. That isn't saying much because you're just going to confront the same issues again, a year later. Again, do yourself a favor and grab the Windows 10 version that guarantees you til 2032. By then, you could skip Windows 11 entirely and see what else is on the horizon.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The World’s Leading Genocide Computing Company
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
buying into rust was good and will hopefully prove the language further
not going to save them but can make their platform better for those that don’t move to linux
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Tl;dr: no.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
They updated the Lens app (pretty much the best scanning app available) UI and haven’t enshittified it! I call that a win! I wish I could now pin it to a specific version on the play store.