Microsoft used to be a company that produced terrible software and was yet utterly dominant. They're now a company that produces beautiful software (in my opinion) and are entirely unable to get people to buy it. I don't own a Windows tablet or a Windows phone, because the app selection is awful, but I've used both and they are fantastic. Speaking of which, with all their money, how are they not paying app developers to port things to their platform? With their marketing expertise, how are they not just shoving these phones into people's hands? When people think of Ballmer they think of Vista or "DEVELOPERS!" or throwing chairs about Google. I think of his failure to drive adoption.
i don't really trust microsoft products because they have a track record for being consumer hostile (like how they thought the xbox one phoning home was acceptable etc).
I'm also one of thousands of people who has my digital content locked up by them due to their ridiculously complex digital rights management on the 360, that is far far more ornate and frustrating than anything rootkit-toting sony has ever thrust upon me.
They are paying people to develop apps for their platform. oodles and oodles of cash. it's literally a joke amongst mobile developers that they have come to almost expect a pay-day from microsoft to port things to their platform.
In my opinion, they have meticulously dug themselves into a hole of being generally untrustworthy, and it will take a miracle to extricate them from it.
But hey, i'm not really happy with apple anymore either, so I am an equal-opportunity cynic.
>But hey, i'm not really happy with apple anymore either, so I am an equal-opportunity cynic.
I was going to say, pretty much all the major players are doing the same things you criticize Microsoft for. That said, while I'm happy that they backtracked on the Xbox One nonsense, the fact that they went there to begin with makes it clear that they would return to the same old Microsoft if they ever got the chance. How did they ever think those "features" were acceptable?
