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Not going to touch the nationality here, but... Microsoft's problems are more endemic to its corporate culture than any one person.
At this point, I would trust AI to do the coding more than I would the Microsoft engineers...
Except that I think they're already using AI to code Windows and that's part of the problem. Either that or massive DEI hires.
They are, they've said they are in a bunch of their Gush-About-Copilot marketing wank.
I'll just leave these here...
It guess you can't employ a workforce that you pay pennies for and expect anything good to come of it.
Not so.
The entire OS needs a rewrite.
I have zero confidence that anything good is going to happen to Windows anytime soon. This problem has been going on for at least a decade.
The DOD orgs love their Sharepoint pages...
We use Sharepoint for temporary storage, collaborative files, and ease of access for people. I dump a lot of files into a sharepoint list with a PowerApp so I don't have to give people access to the real storage location and to make it easier for them to search/find things. A poor man's database because I don't know how to build a proper database and our IT department doesn't actually help people do anything.
Not good enough. They need to acknowledge that it is mostly self inflicted before there can be hope of improvement.
He needs to go already for the crime of hoarding GPUs and SSDs.
Microsoft is acknowledging this through what it's fixing and the blog posts addressing them. Insisting that they become flagellants might make us feel good, but it won't make them fix things any sooner.
That's hardly a reason to oust an executive; you don't have to like that GPUs, memory, and storage are absurdly priced, but Microsoft is neither the largest contributor to that problem nor beholden to enthusiasts. Like it or not, it's shareholders and internal pressure that mainly affect the decision.
I don't expect them to fix things until they acknowledge the real problems. Replacing web based crap with native crap is avoiding the problem while pretending to fix it.
An executive that puts investors short term wants above long term sustainability and customer satisfaction? That's even more reason to get ousted.
So far not a single executive has presented a realistic roadmap on how AI will make money and how and when it will achieve any positive ROI on the billions or hundreds of billions of extra investment in it. This should be elementary. It's so easy to dismiss any criticism as "ah, you're just an AI hater" I'm not, I think AI can be a great tool when used properly for things it is good at. But as I predicted investing more into training bigger and bigger models yields diminishing returns so there is absolutely no justification for the insane compute buildout frenzy. In fact, I predict that soon due to the saturation of AI generated content on the internet the more you train the AI the more retarded it will get due to ingesting AI generated content. Yes, AI can become inbred.
It was taken our of context entirely I recall, they were not talking about actually re-writing the entire OS from the ground up using AI or something.
Sharepoint is one of those things. IF it is properly set up for the job it is supposed to be used for, it can work great, but, too many companies think Sharepoint is a file share replacement...it is not. So often it is designed poorly, layer of broken inherited permissions, marketing or graphics going crazy with large purdy designs that are not needed.
That's not what I'm getting at (although there are certainly leaders who chase after single-quarter results). I don't see it as a dichotomy. It's that CEOs are rarely removed because they upset enthusiasts; it's that they upset the broader customer base enough to damage long-term sales and anger both shareholders as well as the company board. One bad quarter is just a bad quarter... but if you're someone like Steve Ballmer, who misses the boat on mobile and spends most of his tenure chasing after Apple (without understanding why Apple is successful)? That's when there are calls for a replacement.
I suspect this is part of why Microsoft said in its Windows 11 re-do post that it's "integrating AI where it’s most meaningful, with craft and focus" — effectively admitting that it needs to calm down rather that push Copilot at every given opportunity.
Yeah our IT department is questionable at best. Thanks for the explanation.
You mean, just like Excel...
Well then your in a win win situation. The Microsoft engineers are ai.
