Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tl;dr: no.

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• ghostlychonk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Microsoft did one good thing: they finally got me to jump to a Linux based OS on my PC.

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  • BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same

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  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why did not just keep windows 10, change the background picture and call it windows 11?

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    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s that? More AI? -Microsoft-

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• imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do they ever?

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Moving from a shitty proprietary web renderer to participate in Chromium development was an improvement.

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The dumped legacy protocols and defaults that were insecure. That’s pretty big for a company that historically doesn’t do that.

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• cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Their Linux marketing department seems to have been quite effective over the last year.

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A .Net dev in the flesh? I’ll pray for you /s

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    • PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The World’s Leading Genocide Computing Company

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