• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      9 months ago

      Are you kidding? He’s made some…questionable decisions over the last couple of years, but look at where Microsoft is at today compared to when Ballmer left. It’s a much more successful, more exciting, and more open company than it was. Could you imagine Ballmer’s Microsoft releasing WSL? Or greenlighting a major faithful remaster and re-release of all 4 of the big Age of Empires games, as well as developing an entire new one? Or buying and actually being a surprisingly good steward of GitHub?

      He’s far from perfect, and all the enshittification of the last 2 or 4 years should be roundly criticised. But overall, Nadella has been a net positive for the company both financially and in terms of the company’s societal impact.

      The same can not be said for Google’s Pichai…

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        9 months ago

        Microsoft is still alive. That is bad. And nadella made it bigger. Even worse.

        No company that size and power should exist at all.

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          9 months ago

          Whether Nadella is running Microsoft well is a separate argument from whether trillion dollar corporations should be allowed to exist.

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            9 months ago

            Thought the original comment was that nadella ruined microsoft by letting it live. And comment i replied to missed that point.

            Maybe wrong then.