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These companies are monopolistic dynasties. They set the precedent and shove it down our throats until the next generation, which doesn't know a world prior to the slop they've sold us. They have a captive market in waiting, and the finances to survive until then.

Yes, because your bank account depends on your incredulity.

Fuck all the way off.

Arguments about the validity of it being impressive aside, I think he's mistaking impressive technological achievements with things people want in their operating system.

unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.

That fluency is a pure illusion. Either he doesn't know this, or he thinks we don't.

It is interesting to see his reaction to reality. He finds out that people think he's peddling bullshit, and instead of asking why they think that, he dismisses them as irrational... That's one way to run a company, but only if your company has a monopoly and customers can't run away even if they want to.

they even have an AI CEO

clowns

My mind would be blown if the computer always answered correctly.

I am unimpressed because a majority of answers are at least slightly bullshit, and very often they are entirely incorrect.

Microsoft is truly the king of putting out a product that no one wanted or asked for, then wondering why no one wants it. I'm sure they will soon begin the second phase of any Microsoft product: spending a small country's GDP marketing it to try to get people to use it, despite it being prominently displayed on approximately 5 billion operating systems already.

A tried and true strategy to piss through more money than god to justify spending more money than god building the thing that no one wants. Looking at you, IE and edge.

"Talking fluently". You get completely meaningless answers. Big walls of text without content.

AI is a hindrance, not a helper.

people are unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.

I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer "open this". I type into a search field to communicate "find this string".

At no point do I want to communicate to my computer "log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn't what I'm asking for."

If you're "mindblown" about this then you shouldn't be the CEO of any division of one of the most profitable businesses on the planet.

Pro tip: when your customers don’t like your product, it’s not their fault. It’s yours, and the appropriate response is not complaining or incredulity that people don’t like it. The appropriate response is to change the product or scrap it completely.

Honestly I stopped using the OS because of the ads, it was such a ballsy move to keep spamming me with "use one drive" "try edge" "look at alllll theses aaaappppsssz that yoouuuu can pay for" or even "activate windows" my OS is my home not your billboard ffs

Because doubling down on idiocy has always worked in the past.

"Don't you have phones" moment

I'm impressed by AI, but I don't want AI, now go away, you're just as annoying as that blabbermouth droid and that creepy paperclip.

I don’t want to talk fluently with a computer, I want it to do things deterministically in a way I as a human being cannot. If I want a discussion, I have it with a human being.

You know what would impress me? That I would be able to start using my computer when I boot it in the morning.

As it stands I have to wait some 5 to 10 minutes before the mouse pointer decides to cooperate with me. And god forbid I attempt to start a Teams meeting, either the camera, mic or screen share will not work at all.

What the hell is this dumbass operating system doing that is more important than responding to the damn user?

Same machine, booting Linux, lets me start working right away. No stuttering, no freezes. Go figure.

And once again, Ed Zitron is proven right about the Business Idiots running everything. Jesus fuck these MBAbros are so fucking stupid.

Well my guy have you actually used and I mean really sat down and used your burning pile of slop for an excuse of an OS? I bet you haven‘t because you don‘t have to. Your assistants have to deal with that and they get paid to not complain about it. Meanwhile you get paid to waste oxygen and have lost touch with reality to the point you‘re no longer able to contribute to society in your current position. How sad.

Yeah, I don't want to destroy the only environment where I can live to fuel AIs that only make rich people richer. How silly of me.

He might be the dumbest ceo out there, and that is an impressive feat.

Truly disconnected.

Talentless hack and way out of his depth grifter who knows the position he has reached and the money he makes in it is really just supported by cultivated connections and his bullshiting ability, rather than any superior strategical capabilities, when the business "strategy" he chose as CEO merelly because "everybody else is doing it" starts to be perceived as not just broken but a bit of a shit show, keeps on trying to push the impression that, actually, he's just a misunderstood visionary and it's others that don't yet recognize how wonderful the direction he chose for the company is.

By using such arguments, maybe once again he'll "fake it until you make it" his way into success (after all, that's how he became MS' CEO in the first place) or, at worst, it will extend how long he can keep on getting paid the big bucks for nothing more than being a lucky bullshitter with the right connections.

I've been in Tech on and off since the 90s, including in Tech Startups, and nowadays "leaders" in it are pretty much all grifters, not techies with a vision.

I've been reading the posts here and most people are coming from a "decent honest person trying to do his jobs as well as possible" point of view in their reading of the guy (probably because that's the kind of person they are) and thus giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, whilst from what I've seen in that world this guy is almost certainly a talentless hack at anything other than grifting and who, lacking any above average strategical thinking abilities, went for the "everybody else is doing it" strategy which is now blowing up, so of course he'll use typical grifter skills to try and dig his way out of that hole or, at least, stave off the innevitable end of getting big fat $$$ for holding a position he's not actually competent at.

The guy is gaslighting because he's a grifter not a strategist and the "it's others, not me" line of argument is a common "defend & delay" tool in a grifter's toolbox.

Didn't manufacture enough consent. That's on you

I don't think I know anyone who has been excited for a single microsoft product in the last ~15 years. It's never "wow, that's cool", it's "I wonder how they fucked it up this time".