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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea they are so terrible they are market leaders with trillion dollar cap, absolutely the worse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The mistake you are making is conflating profitability and quality.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No the mistake yall are making is ignoring if a product was truly bad then EVERYONE would abandon it but they don't been doing IT for 2 decades windows is going no where.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Microsoft has very, very good salespeople and they let the sunk cost fallacy do the rest. Their products donโ€™t have to be good. They just have to check certain boxes for sales and be recognizable, especially since so many people/businesses are genuinely unaware that alternatives exist, or think that (due to marketing and sunk cost fallacy) those are alternatives are โ€œtoo complicatedโ€ or โ€œtoo risky.โ€

MS has been using aggressive anti-competitive practices for decades to secure and hold market share. Making good things that people genuinely enjoy is not part of their business plan.