Posted on 04/30/2025 6:17:08 AM PDT by zeestephen
Nadella made the comments during a conversation before a live audience with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the social media company's LlamaCon AI developer event.
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Explains a few things. I just spent a few weeks finding a critical issue in one of their core products. Then there were two more critical bugs that came along right after that.
Microsoft has become an Indian company full of sloppy, thoughtless, products.
I think this is the reason Apple doesn’t do that (note that this is outside my area of expertise):
Apple could lower prices and open macOS to compete directly with Windows, but that would mean abandoning its entire business model—one built on premium hardware, ecosystem lock-in, and tight control over the user experience. Apple doesn’t want to “kill Microsoft” by becoming Microsoft.
Their strategy isn’t about market share volume; it’s about margin, brand, and ecosystem value. Competing with Windows on commodity terms would hurt Apple more than Microsoft.
No wonder their software sucks ass.
“Thank God for the simple archaic relic of FReeRepublic.”
There is a lot to be appreciated with practical, simple, light, and minimalistic. The less moving parts the less that can break...
That explains why it crashes with bsod’s 30% of the time!
One of my good friends just started at Microsoft a couple of years ago and says it’s BY FAR the most miserable place he’s ever worked. No one knows anything, so you have to figure everything out on your own. There’s no documentation on how anything works, and none of his coworkers talk to each other. (His manager admitted as much, and says “That’s just how MS is”).
So this story doesn’t surprise me.
I haven't worked as a software engineer in a long time, but I can see that portions of the code could be written in this way today. But, like you said, 100% gets plenty of scrutiny.
Then they don’t know what they are doing. The secret to business is being able to control the market in shares and move more product to create more cash flow. Cash flow is king.
Here is the math... You have a product with a profit margin of $2. But because of the overinflated base price only one in fifty potential customers buy it. So you make $2 on one sale, when you could have made $50 by capturing all fifty sales if the price was competitive and your margin was only $1. Moving product in quantity rules the markets. It lowers your own parts supply costs because of quantity, it increases popularity, and the cash flow makes market shares attractive and sell. You actually make more by asking less.
This is exactly how Sam Walton built Walmart into what it is now...
I think I’ll stick with Windows 10. It’s worked fine for me for years.
That strategy makes sense if your goal is volume, like Walmart. But Apple isn’t Walmart—they’re more like Rolex or Ferrari. Their whole brand is built on scarcity, premium experience, and vertical integration. They deliberately limit market share to preserve margins and brand prestige.
If Apple slashed prices and chased volume, they’d dilute their brand, cannibalize premium sales, and lose the ecosystem control that defines their customer loyalty. It’s not that they don’t know what they’re doing—it’s that they’ve chosen a fundamentally different game to win.
I have had a Dell All-In-One with Windows 10 for seven years.
I have had the Microsoft Edge auto-installment for five years, maybe longer.
Perfect hardware.
Perfect software.
Not one call to Microsoft or Dell Help Lines in seven years.
Why would I buy anything else?
I'm a Walmart shopper.:-)
If that is the case then they are missing out on the opportunity to take over the whole market globally...
They just selling the brand name to a select market at that point. But it is all mute anyhow... Know who actually owns the controlling shares of them both as a market monopoly together in whole?
BlackRock, Vanguard, And State Street...
Recent Windows updates have so screwed up my PC that I can’t even restart, or it will take at least 15 attempts and repairs and restore points to get it to do so without a blue screen. I have paused updates for weeks, and every so often I get apps that can’t open. Disaster.
LOL!
I always assumed that DirectX was a major hook that kept people chaned to MS...
Yep, of course it was... Linux has a similar issue everyone is trying to get away from right now. Systemd, Folks like Arch and others are working to get away from Systemd as an Init. It is a similar “hook” throughout Linux.
Interesting..
Thank you for the quick reply
Know what is ironic? Everyone is worried about being replaced by AI so they holler “then learn to code”.
Why? AI will already have filled that “coders needed” vacuum. You are embracing and promoting your own replacement for your job. Why the hell would you do that?
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