“Last month, Mozilla made a quiet change in Firefox that caused some diehard users to revolt…”

  • @[email protected]English
    11•1 month ago

    What would people say if Microsoft said “yeah, we’ve allowed windows to languish in recent years.”

    Well, I think they did let it languish, if looking at it being enshittified in recent last ~10 years. Also, it’s not their core product anymore. Almost nobody buys a windows license anymore, because piracy was already high, and they let you keep your license from the previous version so whether you had one or not, most probably now you have.
    I think Microsoft’s core product has not been windows for a long time, but their cloud services, and maybe office and the other common business tools.

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 month ago

      There was a graphic here a while ago. What was it, about 4/5 are Azure and Office 365, Windows less than 1/5.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 month ago

      Let me tell my management they no longer have to pay windows license for the ~10,000 user machines, and then the servers.

      While a single consumer can get away with it (and MS doesn’t care because it means they’re using Windows and likely using MS services, all while getting telemetry from the desktops), it’s far from “nobody buys a windows license any more”.

      Even SMB’s will pay, because if they don’t MS will hammer them financially. No SMB could stand up to what MS can do to them - $200 windows license is cheap insurance.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 month ago

        Let me tell my management they no longer have to pay windows license for the ~10,000 user machines, and then the servers.

        Current sales are nothing compared to earlier windows versions.