• Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That’s the Microsoft strategy, but they forgot to make it better sometimes too

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      21 hours ago

      The Microsoft strategy often seems to be “It worked well, but we completely redid it because we need to justify out existence. Now it barely works with new bugs”

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        That’s more Google’s strategy. Microsoft is more “we updated a bunch of stuff so that we could push our products and services even harder and closed workarounds people are using to avoid them, and if you don’t like it, fuck you, what’re you gonna do?”

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      22 hours ago

      It’s been Android too at least since they stopped naming versions after sweets

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      22 hours ago

      Rule #76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.