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I hope that it is a big dump truck. Because I only use their OS because work makes me, and I used to work at Microsoft along with MSFT stock contributing mightily to our financial security. Now when I see this shit pop up on my screen, it just makes me sad. And furthers my resolve to not use their stuff, even if my wife does still work there.

Thing is, despite some particularly bad UI decisions of late, the base OS seems pretty solid these days. But then they slap this annoying UI on the top of it, and now with malware. It's like the company, as an individual, just can't help itself. Scorpions, frogs, and a river crossing, or summat.

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As a current Microsoft employee, I agree the Edge content screens don’t fit well with our values. Given the tiny revenue generated it seems like a bad investment. Raising it as a values issue in the positive “I thought Microsoft would be better than this” way seems likely to have the most effect if enough people do it.

> Raising it as a values issue

This is about poor design and unethical decisions. MS can keep its values to itself.

> in the positive “I thought Microsoft would be better than this” way seems likely to have the most effect if enough people do it.

But how many is enough? And whom do I approach with this "positive" feedback so that the feedback is not routed to /dev/null? I'm pretty sure that MS receives a ton of feedback on this and similar topics and ignores it.

This is ridiculous. People hate how Edge is bloated nowadays and it’s a fact. You know it, we know it. But MS does nothing to fix that. Instead it pushes forward and adds new shit into the web browser.

* What's "Microsoft Rewards" in MS Edge? An award for those users who share the most amount of telemetry with MS?

* And a "Math solver" in a web browser?

* Games menu?

* FOUR unskippable screens to opt out of some useless features?

All this needs to be in a web browser?

Oh and I almost forgot. Please add support for Flash games into the web browser, add BonziBuddy and bring back my favourite AOL toolbar from IE. I'm missing all this (no).

MS's only job was to create a fast and clean Chromium-based web browser. It failed again.

MS has a lot of jobs, and it won’t ever be great at all of them at the same time. It does have some core values these days which are pretty strongly held (from my limited perspective at the fringe)

My suggestion is that when it fails at a job you care about, instead of dismissing the company as a whole you raise the gap between that particular bit of execution and the espoused values of the company.

That’s how I would raise it internally, because it respects the job people are doing while also suggesting a path for improvement.

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