Oh my fucking god! Please, M$, do continue!!
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thanks microsoft! i just followed the account!
Lea.pet also got a c&d for @apple@lea.pet
Let's save this post for the next follow friday...
Streisand effect in full swing too. I'm now following @Microsoft@lea.pet :)
I don't get fediverse either. How do I follow that from a Lemmy app. The link dosnt work.
Lemmy doesn't support following people, you need a mastodon or Sharkey account for that. Check sharkey.world and mas.to
They don't really understand their user base either
Does Microsoft understand anything? At all? They suck at making software, they suck at making operating systems, they suck at making genAI, they suck at making game consoles, they're starting to suck at owning github, what don't they suck at? What part of their business is done better than anyone else? What end user experience is better on an MS product than anywhere else? They have a shittier alternative to literally everything and nothing truly good.
I don't know if you're asking seriously, but if you are the answer is: Enterprise manageability and accountability. There's a reason why every hospital, Fortune 500 corporate campus, military base, supermarket, distribution centre, etc, etc all run Windows workstations. Why would a ruthlessley profit-driven corporation buy expensive Windows licenses when Ubuntu is free? Because when you're dealing with ten thousand workstation in 150 countries, each with own requirements for data protection, working time, employee rights, etc that not only need enforcing, but need to be audited, you can do all that with a single Windows server and a half-motivated sysadmin. And for everyone smaller than that, you still get access to those same tools for your school, office, factory, whatever on your fleet of twenty mismatched laptops from eight different vendors.
Nothing else comes close, and until it does nothing will change. They would all drop Windows in an instant if there was a sensible alternative.
That's the thing though, they would drop it in an instant if there was an alternative. The fact that there's no competition on the OS front is due to conscious efforts on their part to monopolize desktop operating systems because they wouldn't be able to compete if they had competition.
Their computer mice are pretty good quality, but I don't know if they are the best.
They rock at being the default. As much as I love LibreOffice MS office is probably the best office suite I've used too.
For how good and useful Excel is, it's overbalanced by how utterly fucking dog shit Word is.
Word is when you have a crap and can't seem to wipe yourself fully clean. Word is making a morning coffee and finding the milk has gone bad. If it weren't for the US deciding they'd rather invade the Netherlands than let a single Yank stand trial in the Hague, the entire executive suite of Microsoft would be up on war crimes charges because of Word.
Yeah, like I can't disagree, I've spent hours at work producing decidedly shit documentation (that it's just occurred to me I should probably have done in PowerPoint) but equally I don't think I've ever used a WYSIWYG word processor I'd consider good either (or web design program for that matter).
As someone who is actively moving away from Apple stuff, the hardest thing for me to give up has been Pages. The iPad version is fine, but the Mac version is the GOAT as far as I'm concerned.
But it sucks balls for making anything that needs to be opened on any other editor.
VSCode
You're talking to a vim user. If you even suggest that a MS product is better I'll go crazy and crush up my own teeth into dust and then put it in my morning breakfast milk to make Teeth Milk (Tilk)
You've been warned.
(It's 6 in the morning and I still haven't slept I'm really sorry about this but this reply seems really funny to me so I'm posting against my better judgement)
I am not going to argue if it is better or worse than vim. I actually use both; they both have strengths and weaknesses imo. I use them for different tasks. I will say though that VSCode is extremely popular for programming and for good reasons. It's a good product, one of the best things Microsoft make.
Out of interest: why vim and not neovim?
And I can't really argue with you cause, I'll be honest with you, I'm an amateur programmer. I actually do use neovim though, I just said vim because it's just more recognizable. Like, that's just kinda the name of this general category of thing. Don't have enough experience to know the difference between the two though (except that vim doesn't clear itself from my terminal when I exit, that's annoying. Oh and the tutor. And the color. But I haven't experimented with any of those cool plug-ins yet...)
In neovim you can have a terminal inside a buffer. So you can have a terminal and your code open side by side like you would in a modern IDE, or emacs for that matter.
ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?? YOU CAN JUST HAVE A TERMINAL ATTACHED TO IT TO DO WHATEVER???? HOW did I not know about this sooner I spent literal hours researching how to best use neovim
That was literally my only problem with cli-based text editors and its just there????
I'm gonna be so fucking powerful now that i know this , thank you you beautiful lemmy user
Edit: I feel like this guy at about 2:00 in this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9sv3ydNBfQA
Vscode being more accessible than Visual doesn't actually mean anything in the grand scheme of code creation. Both sucks btw.
Yet VSCode is one of the most popular IDEs with many other IDEs being forks of it.
I am amazed this is even remotely controversial. It's one of the few products they make that's actually good. Just tells you how far off the real world most Lemmy users are lol.
Funnily I have been fine with a lot of Microsoft software before, but VSCode was not one of them. Mostly because I'm very picky about something I'll be using all day everyday and for that VSCode has too many issues for my taste.
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They suck at making everything except money.
That's called a scam artist, and honestly that's not far off at all. They did some sneaky shit to maintain a monopoly.
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