It’s a tricky thing, because shareholder value is entirely vibes based. Microsoft is demonstrably losing market share, approval from users, and functionality of the OS. While it’s understandable to want to chase new trends, long term OS stability and compatibility for the average user was their golden goose, and they’re killing it. We’re seeing people move away from windows, which 5 years ago would have been an impossibility.
It’s slow to act, but the more market share something like Linux gets, the more it tends to snowball in terms of public opinion. That definitely has the possibility of eating a significant chunk of MS revenue.
I hope they don’t figure it out and back off completely until Linux has enough market share to force software companies to design for Linus as much as Macintosh at a minimum. I really hope that windows figures out their shit and makes a good OS again in the future but they’ve shown time and time again they can’t be a monopoly without enshitification being their main plan, be it when they almost got broken up 30 years ago and they propped up Apple as a “competitor” which was a joke at the time or now with everything they did with 8 and now 11 they need to be him led like IBM was and become a background player maybe useful for buisness ventures but not powerful enough to delay competitive advances to keep their market share.
It’s a tricky thing, because shareholder value is entirely vibes based. Microsoft is demonstrably losing market share, approval from users, and functionality of the OS. While it’s understandable to want to chase new trends, long term OS stability and compatibility for the average user was their golden goose, and they’re killing it. We’re seeing people move away from windows, which 5 years ago would have been an impossibility.
It’s slow to act, but the more market share something like Linux gets, the more it tends to snowball in terms of public opinion. That definitely has the possibility of eating a significant chunk of MS revenue.
I hope they don’t figure it out and back off completely until Linux has enough market share to force software companies to design for Linus as much as Macintosh at a minimum. I really hope that windows figures out their shit and makes a good OS again in the future but they’ve shown time and time again they can’t be a monopoly without enshitification being their main plan, be it when they almost got broken up 30 years ago and they propped up Apple as a “competitor” which was a joke at the time or now with everything they did with 8 and now 11 they need to be him led like IBM was and become a background player maybe useful for buisness ventures but not powerful enough to delay competitive advances to keep their market share.