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"Not doing consumer harm" is carrying a lot of weight there.

Either way what you describe is perfectly achievable for the workers, but at some point management needs to own up to their failures and getting rewarded because the board is also made up of executives at other big tech companies is a perverse incentive to never actually improve.



How did Microsoft’s losing bets do consumer harm?


I mean forcing copilot everywhere I don't want it (nowhere) while jacking up prices to justify it and using Windows 11 to serve ads is harmful to me. There's also you know... the anticompetitive company that thinks buying new sectors is healthy.


Today, Microsoft’s revenue mostly comes from Office and Azure. All except PowerPoint were written and designed by MS.


What does that have to do with what I'm saying? Today Copilot is being shoved in services I don't want which they are then in turn using to justify cost increases.

How is that not consumer harm?

Hopefully in the future the FTC will break up Microsoft, forcing them to split Azure, Office, and Windows. They clearly can't be trusted with all 3.




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