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  • Why on earth would they bundle gamepass into Office365? Office365 is pretty much used for business and educational institutions. Everybody else is a rounding error.

    The overlap between Office365 owners and Xbox gamers is extremely small.

    You’d just end up pissing everybody off by combining them

    • “They’ve added how much to the price by adding this gamer nonsense?! I don’t need that crap, I want office software!”

    • “They’ve added how much to the price by including fucking PowerPoint and Outlook?! I don’t need that crap, I want to play games!”

    And not to defend MS, but a 43% increase isn’t nearly doubling. A 100% increase would be doubling.







  • This is bewildering. What a shame.

    I had minor gripes with some of their services but Proton has broadly been pretty great in my eyes.

    Some CEOs baffle me. Surely, even if they are massive fans of one US political party over the other, they’d have the sense to keep it to themselves to prevent it becoming a thing that causes a fallout with existing/potential customers? But no. They’re too fucking narcissistic for that, and they think everyone wants to hear their opinions and follow them.




  • Nokia was purposely sabotaged by Stephen Elop.

    Elop was a Microsoft employee who moved to Nokia to become their CEO.

    Elop scrapped Meego as well as the rapidly-improving and highly promising Symbian OS that Nokia had, killed internal projects that used Android, and went all in on Windows Phone 7, a completely unproven platform that just happened to be from his ex employer.

    After the market really didn’t like that, Microsoft was able to buy Nokia for a bargain price (€5.4bn), and Elop was given a €18.8m bonus.

    Curiosly, that bonus works out as €1 million for every €1 billion that was wiped off Nokia’s market cap during his time as CEO. But I’m sure that’s just a coincidence…

    When he was asked for the good of the company to take a smaller bonus, Elop said that he “couldn’t”.

    After the deal to buy Nokia went through, Elop moved to a different cushty position within Microsoft.

    Nokia didn’t really fumble smartphones. They were purposely ran into the ground by Microsoft so they could use a powerful brand name as the the thin end of a wedge to take over the phone market, without having to pay much for it. Then Microsoft fumbled it from then on out.




  • This stuff never works. And plenty of sites don’t even implement the checks anyway.

    I’m all for preventing kids from seeing harmful content, or being on social media at a young age, but these solutions are just plasters on an open wound.

    I’m not saying it would be perfect, but it seems to me like routers should come with a QR code sticker on top that, during initial setup, will take you to a parental controls menu. One that should be vastly more idiot-proof than they currently are.

    From there, people with kids can decide whether they want it on or not.

    Will it prevent everything? Of course not! But it does place control in the parent’s hands, makes it much simpler to understand, and doesn’t come with data-handling plus privacy quandaries.