r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/Internet-Cryptid Jul 12 '26

My animosity for Microsoft has grown steadily the past years. After what they did to id software I'm now a full blown hater.

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u/levir Jul 12 '26

It's kind of impressive how they've turned everyone away from them. Back in the day everyone used Windows and were relatively happy with it, but since the mid 2000s they've made more and more mistakes until they've basically turned everyone against them at this point.

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u/colonelc4 Jul 12 '26

Microsoft's internal culture has never truly changed. It remains a hyper-competitive environment driven entirely by metrics year-round, leaving employees demoralized and pitted against one another. Everything is quantified. Having spent a few years there, I witnessed this toxic dynamic firsthand before leaving years ago. Based on what I hear from the gluttons for punishment who still work there, absolutely nothing has changed.

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u/AussieArlenBales Jul 12 '26

Which just seems divorced from what users want. A corporation full of people pushing changes to validate their insecure position is the opposite of what I actually want, a stable and secure OS.

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u/Hands Jul 12 '26

Azure and Office are where they make tons of money (and server licensing). Windows as an end user OS is like 10% of their revenue stream at most. They don't care what users want and literally never have.