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  • yeah, wine’s trajectory is the complete opposite of MS.

    I reject the idea that MS is the expert in MS stuff. corporate structure and institutional knowledge and strategy are not the same as a person knowing something. I’m sure there are people in MS who know more than anyone. but together I suspect they’re far far less than the sum of their parts.

    I remember trying to open word-97 .doc files in office 2002.

    Surely MS knows how to read it’s own file format? Nope, well, not as well as star/sun/open/libreoffice (whichever one it was at the time).

    I’m sure someone in MS was saying “lets do a bit more work on backwards compatibility”; I’m pretty sure that person was immediately tied to the desk with a giant annoying ribbon and forced to become familiar with a whole box of paperclip suppositories.

    Oh hang on, that was decades ago, they’ve grown so much since then .


  • Only if revenue goes down.

    Sacking testers makes nothing but sense if your customers are as dumb as us. My employer continues to sign contracts before the functions we need have been proven. income independent of functionality.

    TBF our procurement people don’t seem to think our requirements are any more complex than “big computer” and MS probably offered “really big really good computer, cheap computer, big , nice price, 25% less than oracle, high security, safe computer, cloud, ai, yes fully working with 12 month, you pay now, special discount, extra 10% off if you sign today, hurry rush best deal”.

    I suspect negotiations like that drive a disappointingly large amounts of their revenue.








  • You’ll have to decide how user friendly the archwiki docs are for yourself. I find most of it pretty useful but sometimes it can get techy, or get confusing about versions/updates for llatest changes and so on.

    It’s probably better than any other linux dox in my opinion. But that bar is not exactly high.

    Then again I don’t know if windows even has documentation at all - I assume they replaced it with coprolite.