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Oh no. Anyway...
Make Windows 7 again (or just use Linux), ditch AI, value your users. Sack the CEO. Pretty simple.
Or double down on AI. Then double down even harder.
A business plan to rally the crowds behind 💸
Solid business plan. Would implement
This would be great, but unfortunately would not make number go up. That is all they care about now.
I dunno. Windows 11 sales have been crap. People aren't buying new machines due to it. Relaunch 12 as privacy focussed, AI enabled (but optional), and they could see a bounce. Double down on Office, keep a steady improvement on Azure, and see Xbox as a growth opportunity. Microsoft could avoid the AI slump
Notice how Apple have not jumped all in. They are anticipating the storm and are well prepared to weather it out
Wait until new computers quadruple in price because of data center demands, driven by idiotic AI initiatives nobody wants, and nobody buys new computers.
Apple did jump in but then backed out once it was clear their offering wasn't even close to the competition. Remember their big push on Apple Intelligence and how most of the features they promised never materialised?
While the back-peddalling was embarrassing at the time, I agree that their cautious approach since will probably work out better than Microsoft going forward.
If I had to guess, at least in the past, Apple has typically listened to its engineers. Maybe not as well as like Valve.
The AirPower would like a word.
Fair.
Windows & Xbox are like 16% of M$'s revenue, they're not that important to the company.
Windows is a core driver of many of the other services. Linux certainly isn't pushing OneDrive ads and Copilot ads like Windows is.
Hell, Microsoft doesn't even make a OneDrive Linux GUI for some reason; their share on Linux is probably trash. The more people switch, the more those customers move to Dropbox and other services that actually make a product.
Exactly, both are under performing. New CEO should be fixing that
But they don't give a shit about them, they cater to companies first and foremost.
Companies care about Windows for sure
They care that they’re running it.
Past that, they don’t care.
Wtf is Office?
Oh, you must mean Microsoft Copilot App
The reality is, and I say this with a heavy heart, that Crapple is ahead of everyone else in how to keep the money and stock prices moving in their favor. They 'rent' AI capabilities from OpenAI and Google and put their money where they always have, making new devices, some good developing and fucking over everyone in their walled garden. Microslop, on the other hand, has completely lost its north.
Full disclosure, I fucking hate Crapple almost as much as I hate Microslop, but they evidently know what they're doing. How long they can keep their shit up is another conversation for another time.
They are running their own schemes as of right now.
Sorry you're right, number MUST GO UP /s.
sigh.
Their core users are corporations, not personal households.
Depends on your definition of "users". If "user" means "source of personal information to train AI models" then households absolutely are users. I guess we're entering a world where different users do different things for a company like Microsoft: Corporations buy licenses for OS and software, households and individuals provide data to train the AI models that permeate it all.
I wonder how well a project to secure windows 7 and provide 3rd party security patches would do financially. Whichever country grows the balls to ignore the DMCA could do it and make a lot of people happy.
Very few people would use it. You'd have all the issues of Linux where very little is made for the OS, so community made ports would be the only way to get things running. Those downsides are counteracted by the upside of Windows... which is what?
DirectX I guess. I don’t know I haven’t owned a windows box since 2006 or so, and I found that one literally in someone’s trash. Still had their wedding photos on it and everything.
8 was better than 7.
No. 8.1 maybe. But not 8
Both because of Metro, unless there's a back port to 7 there's no reason to use 7.
I remember 8 being a cluster fuck. But 8.1 was ok.
I had a windows phone at the time. Those were great.