This has to be the most uninformed post I have ever seen in my life.
Literally moved to live on their campus because I hate commuting.
24/7/365.
But what do I know.
A review of ~12 months:
Paid premium for video gaming IP. Argued before the FTC that industry consolidation was required due to the strength of its main competitor. Has an inferior console when compared to its competitor both in technical specifications and the fact that racism/other similar statements are extremely prevalent in Xbox Live communications.
Cancelled HoloLens. Share buyback was priority.
Removed the ability to uninstall its browser, pushed updates which changed privacy and notification defaults for its users. The public facing justification is an outright lie; “our default web browser is an essential component of our operating system and can't be uninstalled.”
Users must edit the registry or use tertiary applications to remove this bloatware, but once complete, the system runs just fine.
Delivered possibly the worst search engine ever in the past, and has given the market 0 reason besides force to use it the past year. I don’t know if you see the trend here but creating compelling products is not one. Borderline fraud when comparing initial company claims to real life results. Similar to Apple Maps initial rollout, except they iterated much more aggressively, and ultimately created a tool that was better than the current market offerings. Once stable, it was substantially faster than Googles previous offerings and infinitely more convenient than any legacy web or gps hardware products.
Currently arguing with the FTC about Googles “monopoly on advertising”, and is “trapped in a vicious cycle”. (It’s called make something better.)
Historically, has entered and abandoned the music hardware, music marketplace, mobile phone, ~mobile phone marketplace, social media, and wearable markets. Trillions left behind. All while claiming to have a superior product. All failures.
It has made ~60 acquisitions in the past 5 years and has a quarter million mostly world class employees including some living legends. The problem is the company’s decisions are made, essentially, by the collective will of investment managers, not engineers. Very similar to Boeing, in the bad sort of way.
You give me that engineering power and I will rip a hole in space time itself.
It’s okay that Microsoft is a value destroying company. They own two of the most critical pieces of software used worldwide. But if one is not skeptical that some <initial hardware rollout> from Microsoft is going to be superior to an entrenched incumbent, who is actively iterating, then that’s just silly imo.
