The engineers made some great improvements under the hood. But the product decisions are a disaster.
This would be a good reply anytime someone goes the generalist 'Microsoft does this and that and that and that and it's all bad' way. I've always found it somewhat strange how many people don't seem to realize there's x different divisions within Microsoft, and that's it's somewhat unfair to call all of it crap just because some lame in-your-face management-crap. Not that the latter is acceptable, but as you say: other divisions have been doing some neat things for the past decades..
Honestly, why should a customer care? If half of microsoft is sane and the other half retarded, the result will be retarded. The customer should be able to say microsoft as an entity is retarded. They have plenty of management to figure the details out themselves
There's plenty of bright and good people working for Microsoft, even producing some decent software. But Microsoft as a corporation remains harmful and untrustworthy.
Might be because I can vividly imagine there are many of those. I.e. suppose you're doing nice work on improving VScode (just to name a well known thing) and then another unrelated part of your company does stupid things like this and then you get associated with it. That just sucks. Like when you use a linux shell for your day-to-day work and others are all like 'linux is completely not ready for the desktop, linux sucks'. I guess I just don't like generalizations.
This would be a good reply anytime someone goes the generalist 'Microsoft does this and that and that and that and it's all bad' way. I've always found it somewhat strange how many people don't seem to realize there's x different divisions within Microsoft, and that's it's somewhat unfair to call all of it crap just because some lame in-your-face management-crap. Not that the latter is acceptable, but as you say: other divisions have been doing some neat things for the past decades..