Let’s name things Microsoft uselessly continued or created because of greed

[TRethehedgehog]

Halo: there was only supposed to be Halo CE, but microsoft saw how much money it could generate, so they made Halo 2, 3, and Reach, but at least those were good. My problem is that after Reach, Bungie left and Microsoft wanted more Halo, so they said “fine I’ll do it myself” and made Halo 4.
The day Halo 4 released was the day Xbox died

Xbox: talking about Xbox, you cannot convince me that they didn’t want to stop making them at some point. Hell it was probably named after DirectX anyways, they knew PC was always better. And you know all the issues the Xbox 360 had
Especially with the color red

Gears of War: it was probably supposed to end at 3, but nah just like Halo they had to release a prequel, then two ♥♥♥♥♥♥ sequels.

Windows: windows 10 was supposed to be last windows, but they released windows 11 and plan on discontinuing 10. They probably meant “windows 10 will be the last one that everyone can agree was good”

Internet Explorer and Edge: Get the ♥♥♥♥ out of my life! They made it so they could run netscape navigator to the ground and have more of a monopoly in the PC space. Apple came in clutch with the iMac and safari, and Google will make chrome later, and as we all know Edge and Internet Explorer ended up as total jokes.

Bethesda: they didn’t need to continue Bethesda, should have released Hi Fi Rush, then kill them just like they killed Skype.

Github: not saying I want Github to die, but you know they wanted to buy Github to have a monopoly on even the open source community smh.

The government: if Microsoft proved that the government laws don’t matter to them, then Microsoft is above government. So if Microsoft was smart they would complete their monopoly buy purchasing the United States, and then own U.S. government

[kilésengati]

There are alot of bad and dumb things they did, like their spyware OS and calling FOSS cancer, but in light of recent developments:

Their controller politics. First they came up with this really cool thing called DirectInput, but then they abandoned it out in favour of the vastly inferiour XInput. Now they want to ban unauthorised third-party gamepads and don't even demand class compliance for authorised gear. Screw them for producing unnecessary e-waste. Same with forcing that TPM spyware ♥♥♥♥ onto everyone.

Thankfully, on PC we got alternatives... except for TPM, that's on everything now.

[Devsman]

Xbox
Windows
DOS

[Xx_kNeEjAcKeR_xX]

Linux FTW

[kilésengati]

PM me your boobs původně napsal:

Linux FTW

What about WSL though? ;P

[Xx_kNeEjAcKeR_xX]

wsl is an imposter

[ktulu84]

Devsman původně napsal:

Xbox
Windows
DOS

Why is DOS terrible tho?

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Bill Gates

[Hobbit XIII]

BoraY původně napsal:

Devsman původně napsal:

Xbox
Windows
DOS

Why is DOS terrible tho?

the very early versions of Dos were a test of patience.

Format a disk, you need to know how big the disk is er ok input that, the intensity of the disk is also required, er ok input that whatever that is, input more insane information that requires constantly running a check for each disk and parameter just to format them to be able to be used on a system that is meant to be using them and what they are made for.

It is not a big thing but imagine that on every single thing you needed to do using dos.
Later version were sane, thankfully.

[ktulu84]

Hobbit XIII původně napsal:

BoraY původně napsal:

Why is DOS terrible tho?

the very early versions of Dos were a test of patience.

Format a disk, you need to know how big the disk is er ok input that, the intensity of the disk is also required, er ok input that whatever that is, input more insane information that requires constantly running a check for each disk and parameter just to format them to be able to be used on a system that is meant to be using them and what they are made for.

It is not a big thing but imagine that on every single thing you needed to do using dos.
Later version were sane, thankfully.

Ah, I understand thanks for the information

[Devsman]

BoraY původně napsal:

Devsman původně napsal:

Xbox
Windows
DOS

Why is DOS terrible tho?

Oh, I didn't say it was terrible. I like Windows too.

But they did uselessly create them both for greed.