• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    To me it’s absurd how Microsoft gets beaten by a free desktop environment when windows is like their main product. They have billions of dollars. How do they manage to not do better?

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      11 months ago

      windows is like their main product

      TBF it isn’t really - only about 12% of their revenue. It’s more of a means to lock people into their other products.

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        11 months ago

        Well, that’s the thing, it’s the core part of their entire business. The glue that sticks everything together. Or at least used to be until Azure.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      No developer is ever passionate about MS.

      I’d sooner not code than write garbage for Windows in visual basic.