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Microsoft is a victim of it's own success.
If they continued to support Windows 10 and basic local MS Office installs, how would they, ya know, make more money?
Most of us would still be perfectly happy with Windows 7 and Office 2010.
I don't need OneDrive. I don't need Copilot. My company doesn't need Azure. But Microsoft needs someone to buy their goods and services.
What else is a massive organization going to do? Rest on it's laurels?
You didn’t describe a problem exclusive to Miscrosft. You described the entire problem with Capitalism. Endless growth is fiction; yet corporations are beholden to shareholders that demand endless growth.
It's dumber than that. Capitalism does not demand endless growth from any one company. The overall economy grows, sure, but that may come from other economic sectors. Exxon and Chevron haven't seen significant growth for a couple decades, because the oil market hasn't seen significant growth. That does not make them communist. They can just exist at an equilibrium.
Big Tech has a peculiar economic model centered around high fixed costs (R&D) and low marginal costs (digital distribution), which has made a handful of companies unbelievably cash-flush as they reaped insane scale effects. And they simply don't know what to do with so much cash.
Capitalism is supposed to answer that with a reduction in income from competitive pressure. If something is so profitable to do, someone else will do it cheaper. However, such competition does not exist because neoliberal governments have abdicated their mandate to foster competition through trust-busting and forced interoperability.
That's not to say capitalism is good or anything. But even within capitalism, what happened with Big Tech was avoidable.
Either way US Big Tech is not capitalist anymore. It's an autocratic oligarchy with capitalist characteristics.
they could've just sat back and raked in tons of cash by improving existing services
but nooooo, the profits must endlessly increase, and we needs twice as many tons of cash, so enshitty it all until it bursts we shall
Nah, either they’re going to improve things till they no longer need improvement; or they’re lying about making improvements and just dragging their feet for profit.
And yet, they don't improve the quality of windows. Bugs that have existed in Windows 7, 10, and even 11 go unfixed. Features that would make windows more secure aren't implemented but hey, copilot takes screenshots out our screen and stores everything creating a massive security issue and Microsoft just pushes it down users throats for profit?
I get that Microsoft needs to make money, but the way they are going about it is stupid and should be studied because the more they push copilot and other privacy invading "features" the more they force users to switch to Mac or Linux.
Morons keep opting to use products Microsoft and similar shit companies release, so it's kinda self inflicted damage.