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It’s weird right? 1. keeps me firmly on the platform, I find it a delight how often things “just work”. Run a linux app? Just works. Hook up some niche 15yo printer? Just works. Run a game/demo made 20 years ago? Just works. Even MS Paint very much still just works.

It all just works and then the perfectly good Mail app is forcing my mom to switch to the new Outlook, which is Mail, but messier, with ads. What?

I wish Satya Nadella would pull a Steve and yell at some people for this shit. It’s eroding trust in the company that they maintained for so many decades, that can’t be a good long term game can it?

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Nadella probably cheers for more ads revenue, more Azure lock-in, more o365 subscriptions, more edge market share and more silly AI usage because those must be the KPIs at this point, and it doesn't really matter nor shows in those KPIs whether they grew from inherently user-hostile patterns or based on merit and quality.

Game made 30 years ago needs dosbox, an open source project, to just work.

Game made with directx6 20 years ago will render in CPU and just work but be so slow to be unplayable. Then you need to replace the .dll and make it link with an open source library that reimplements dx and converts the calls to the new API, so that it can actually render in hardware.

Yes, solitaire.exe still works. 3d games less so.

I'm full of games like star wars jedi outcast or so that no longer work on windows.

Or my personal disappointment: Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Feels like that ought to work on Windows 10, but I couldn’t get it to. If I remember correctly it did work fine on Windows 8.1 strangely enough.

Having been yelled at repeatedly by an exec, please don't really do this. It is never constructive. Even yelling by Steve Jobs was unwarranted. If you have to yell at people there is a bigger problem which must be resolved first.

> I wish Satya Nadella would pull a Steve and yell at some people for this shit.

Just to check, are you suggesting a Steve Ballmer yell or a Steve Jobs yell?

Hahaha o yea forgot :-) I mean a Steve Jobs yell, not sure that a Ballmer yell would’ve worked equally well on the product people.

No confusion there for me, Ballmer's signature move is throwing chairs. Soo many chairs are waiting in the Windows department...

Is that why Bill's party trick was jumping over chairs? Finally, the pieces are starting to come together?

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