That is somewhat surprising to me. They are 95% crap these days.

But in modern times it has stopped doing that. Now it is a hard-to-learn, hard-to-use historical artefact. Either move to something that makes sense today or stop complaining. You are doing it to yourselves.

And then we have victims with Stockholm-Syndrome that are deep in denial and mod everybody down that states the truth...

Indeed. With raising security, reliability and usability demands, it is just becoming more and more obvious that they do not have it.

Indeed. Although I would submit they _are_ already Boeing. The complete hack of Exchange online, the actor-token disaster, the Sharepoint-disaster, their part in the Crowdstrike disaster, AD still being a mess, Win11, Office, etc. There is not a single well-usable, reliable and secure major product they make.

The problem is, while MS has decidedly killed massively more people than Boing when comparing aggregated lost lifetime, all these are non-spectacular, there are no smoking data-centers with ambulances rushing the injured to hospital, etc. The second problem is that Boeing has competition, which keeps them somewhat honest (yes, that is a stretch, but still true), while Microsoft lacks that competition.

Let's hope so, but probably not since they actually made it to orbit.

Nothing he said was wrong. 40% state ownership and a member on the board is commonplace in China. If the CCP wants it, they'll get it. China allows capitalism and free markets but only in a sandbox.

The US pinched actual German scientists. Thought there was already JPL at the time . . . not enough credit is given to them.

Indeed. And it is not only Windows. Office is slowly getting worse and wastes more and more user time. Azure got hacked several times and has crass vulnerabilities only explainable by extreme incompetence.

Same hardware, same software on three systems that ran win10 before. No problems with Win10. Now I observe system, driver, gui and application crashes that never happened before. I get notification tones that I cannot identify or turn off. Things are harder to find. Log-in screen pictures vanish. Some things got slower. And other crap.

Win11 is a pretty seriously worse product than Win10. Fortunately, all my critical systems are Linux, but Microsoft is obviously going downhill.

Not with a tattoo gun, but yes, microneedle delivery is a new experimental way to deliver vaccines. It's less like a tattoo gun and more like a nicotine patch or a bandaid, though.

Can you let Tim Cook know that?

I'm an Apple fan, but the money they charge for internal storage is ridiculous, especially given that I can buy an external SSD with 2 TB for like $150 if I shop around a bit.

The cynic in me wants to say that they see "intelligence" and go "great, it has something I don't, let's just 100% trust it".

The social critic in me wants to say that it's due to the gigantic hype about AI and how it'll revolutionize everything, replace everyone and solve all problems.

And the tech/security guy in me wants to say "doh, people do dumb shit. What else is new?"

All true, but it should be added this isn't a recent thing.

Oh, the AI buzz is recent, but MS has had quality control problems in flagship software for decades. How many control panels are there? How many "kinda" work? How many versions are we going on with that kind of nonsense? And instead of fixing this, they focus on AI and...notepad...for some fucking reason.

Trying to deflect isn't going to change history.

The reason putin was able to start all these wars is the foreign policy of the Republican/Tea/Trump party that provided him with the money to do so.