They must think we're more stupid and gullible than we are.
Good sign.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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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".
27 years by my measure.
The last thing I was excited for was their new terminal announcement https://youtu.be/8gw0rXPMMPE. Something I wish actually ran on Linux 😅
I can't tell from that ad what this terminal does. Makes the command prompt act like Unix bash?
It's a shell that allows you to easily run different terminals applications and environments in tabs. With some nice cosmetic options to boot.
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The public's expectations differ from those of professionals. Microsoft seems to be ignoring this fact. By now, there should be two distinct product lines. This is already the case with server architecture. However, it appears that Microsoft's strategy is to alienate its customers and make them hate every update.
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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.
His mind has to have been blown all along to think this way and be so disconnected.
"Talking fluently". You get completely meaningless answers. Big walls of text without content.
AI is a hindrance, not a helper.
But that's the point, these people's worldview (despite them being older) is the same that I was reading about around year 2010:
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black box ideology (like Turing test - doesn't matter it's imitation if it looks real for us),
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trust into big data (we don't know what we'll do, but if we build big-big computers like zigguraths, and big-big datasets like Azimov's Empire, we'll have that cool sci-fi future we were promised),
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transhumanism (the idea that new technology is not analogous to wheeled carts and knives, going in parallel to human development, but instead something approaching a common point of singularity),
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mystery (that's quite old, as one might notice, but in their case it's the "layers" of existence and knowledge of how it all works, in practice meaning that big tech top people can play with things you won't ever learn about),
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conflict as source of evolution (that's why all around the world doing various gruesome shit starts to correlate with being a western ally, 50 years ago there was some sort of parity ; that's also why some things really seem like subject to the criterion of building autonomous combat drones and data banks for those ; on Russian state TV they love to talk about yet another wonder weapon being designed, I heartily hope something of that really exists, because what Palantir and company are doing will certainly be real, and for balancing that Putin will do).
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"Don't you have phones" moment
I don't know what that moment is.
... I've not had a phone since the Snowden confirmation in 2013.
The issue that I have with Microsoft's AI, is that I simply don't trust Microsoft to not serve the interests of the 1% against me.
If I am to use an AI, it is with the expectation of privacy and following my intentions.
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Didn't manufacture enough consent. That's on you
And once again, Ed Zitron is proven right about the Business Idiots running everything. Jesus fuck these MBAbros are so fucking stupid.
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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.
His comparison to snake on his Nokia is actually good because in its current state AI is like a little gimmick for many users. Sure there are use cases but it can't reliably perform any truly critical tasks because it makes terrible mistakes.
Imagine Nokia shoving snake in customers faces as it is being done with AI. Every phone marketed as OPTIMIZED FOR SNAKE. A big snake button on the phone as a shortcut to open it. Snake integrated everywhere. Trying to send a text? Would you like to play a round of snake first?
That's what AI currently feels like.
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why not just admit you overspent on datacenters, which you cant afford and trying to recoup some of the losses from your other products.
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.
Too long in monopoly, this logic escapes them.
Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That's what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.
Why won't the cattle enter the chute?!
"The customer is always right" might get misused a lot, but it is correct in this instance.
If a lot of your customers don't like something, it's not something wrong with the customers.
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