It is truly, deeply amazing how bad Microsoft is. Proton on Linux is FASTER than the actual directX it's emulating is on windows. They got beat at their own instruction layer.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (32 children)

And they had Skype, which was practically a genericized trademark for "video call--" until first Apple's FaceTime and then Zoom utterly took them apart.

And they had Office, which defined the product category so completely that it's called "office software--" but then Google Docs took them apart on a molecular level.

Microsoft is the king of snatching defeat from the clutching jaws of victory.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

which defined the product category so completely that it’s called “office software–”

Err, no it's called office software because it's software you use in an office. Microsoft didn't invent the word "office".

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No, of course they didn't invent the word. But they popularized the composition of the bundle (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software) and the idea of calling that bundle an "office suite," a pattern which almost all such suites still follow today.

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