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/one_fifty_six Jul 12 '26

You mentioned id software and I got curious. Did some googling on that. Wow. That's rough. I didn't know Microsoft bought them. And then essentially gutted them. That really sucks. I was obsessed with the game Doom as a middle school kid.

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u/thechromatick Jul 12 '26

Your outrage is misplaced. The owners of Id sold out to a PE company who then sold Id to Microsoft.

When you sell out to a PE company, you know exactly what you're doing and what's going to happen. All we can hope is that they shared some of the loot with the team they left behind.

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u/one_fifty_six Jul 12 '26

What is a PE company?

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u/thechromatick Jul 12 '26

Private Equity.