Microsoft: The World's Biggest Troll

Hey guys, which one of you wants a touch screen desktop monitor? Thought not. Microsoft has become a monster, raping folks of their hard earned money by making awful products. But it always wasn't like this. After the failure of Windows Vista, Microsoft had emerged as a company in touch with its user base, listening and almost caring. A remarkable example was the unprecedented granting of an audience with the developers of Windows Phone to the ChevronWP7 team, whose wanted to maintain a homebrew community (a thriving developer base had formed around the old Windows Mobile platform) and offering an unlock tool was – remarkably – given consideration and accepted.

But recently, Microsoft has stopped giving a shit again. They have attempted to fuse the Metro UI everywhere possible - the Xbox, Windows, and Windows Phone. They have become so lazy that they do not want to develop different platforms customized for different devices. Nope, just toss it on there and hope it works enough. Because of this, Microsoft is beginning to lose dominance in almost every market. Productivity? Google Docs is free and eclipsing Microsoft in this manner. Personal computers? Windows may still be dominant, but OS X and Linux are fast growers in this field. Phones and tablets? Microsoft has always sucked in this division, and iOS and Android have a sort-of duopoly over the market. Not that it's a bad thing.

And it's not just me - several people have been complaining about problems at Microsoft:

Gross inefficiency: “It’s a very inefficient company, with very little or nothing being done to make it better. MS has small windows of actual product development (new code being written) followed by long period of stabilization.”

Managers push busywork: “For PMs [program managers], like me, some manager pushes idiot time consuming exercises like scenario validation…two months to produce collateral that is bound to be useless in six months, since everything is likely to change.”

Lots of talk, little coordination: “Since MS has a performance review system that values ‘individual’ contributions over team work, everybody want to make impact on everything. Another way to read it is that everybody wants to voice opinions and suggestions and drive them to execution, which commonly lead to mutually exclusive ideas….That leads to dysfunctional products….One thing that really frustrated me was that those random suggestions come from intuition, instead of actual scenarios/facts/data, and commonly show how disconnected MS employees are from the real world.

Microsoft has become a troll. After disappointing sales of the awful Windows 8, what did they do? Make more commercials and hope people buy your useless piece of shit. Don't get me wrong, Lenka is one of my favorite musicians, albeit for very strange reasons, but this makes her look like an Adventure Time episode - awful and noobish: 

And then this ad, which depicts some kid using the new Paint application. This might be the only thing that Windows 8 is good for, because we all know that productivity has gone down the drain:

For about a year around the release of Windows 7, Microsoft actually cared. I believe that. If they had another Windows Vista on their hands, the company would fall. But nowadays, the problem is, they didn’t like the noises coming from the critics and rather than take the feedback on board with Windows 8, they’re pushing forward with an OS that no desktop user wants. And that sucks.