Dear Microsoft,

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Dear Microsoft,

Fuck. You.

Fuck every single employee, past present, and future. Fuck every single Microsoft MVP who thinks they are helping the world out. Fuck your entire software ecosystem. Fuck your continuing business model of making the PC world a progressively shittier, but more monthly billable place. Fuck your terrible UI/UX, fuck your obsession with useless AI/ML models, and fuck your de-facto dominance over the entire market.

Your products are over-engineered garbage and the leading cause of infosec issues planet-wide. The only people who actually like your products have drank way too much koolaid or know way too much about corn. The only reason anyone uses your shit is because your propaganda machine about software compatibility is so amazing, Joseph Goebbels is spinning round in his grave in envy so fast, he is generating enough power to light a small town.

You are the single biggest reason the software industry is such a shitshow, and yet, we collectively keep doing whatever you want, throwing more and more money at you, and are.... somehow happy about this?

Fuck you Microsoft.

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For the record, I am not saying that computers would be perfect without Microsoft, but I am pretty gorram convinced that if companies like SGI and Sun had succeeded, the PC world wouldn't be such a shitshow, and the infosec industry would be about 1/50th its current size at best.