Maybe it’s just me, but it seems Microsoft has lost their way. It just seems like everything they do is a mess, a flop, or both.
I really question Microsoft’s ongoing reason for existing. Seems everyone else is eating their lunch. Also, it seems like Microsoft has a distinct tin ear when it comes to the consumer.
RE: Maybe it’s just me, but it seems Microsoft has lost their way. It just seems like everything they do is a mess, a flop, or both.
As I look at Microsoft’s Windows history, I’m not sure if this latest move from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 is anything different from what they’ve done before.
Their first attempt at Windows failed. They went from Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1 and then to Windows 95.
Windows 98 received a less than enthusiastic response and Windows Millenium Edition (ME) was a flop.
Then came Windows XP that was a huge success. What followed was another disaster — Windows Vista. That was replaced by the superb Windows 7.
Who knows what the latest incarnation -— Windows 8 to 8.1 will be like....
I get that sense too. It seems like all they do is endlessly meet and discuss what they'd like to have in an OS...all in a sealed echo chamber. Then they issue press releases that tell us how wonderful it will be and send out Steve Balmer to tell us how much we'll love it.
Microsoft is still the go-to for business.
Microsoft doesn’t make crap off the retail consumer. They are in the business for business.
Only Microsfot could introduce software that looks worse and has less features, and call it an “upgrade”
windows 8 was the first software i ever bought that made me want to get violent
I lost almost a month of prodcutivity trying to get it to do stuff I used to do every day for 20 years.
People have been saying all those things about MS for 20 years. Yet somehow they still own 80% of the desktop space and make more money than any of their competition.
The NSA could probably answer that question.
The market evolved and fragmented. Microsoft failed keep up.
“Maybe it’s just me, but it seems Microsoft has lost their way. It just seems like everything they do is a mess, a flop, or both. I really question Microsoft’s ongoing reason for existing. Seems everyone else is eating their lunch. Also, it seems like Microsoft has a distinct tin ear when it comes to the consumer.”
It’s not just you.