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The last I thought "what a great product" from them was when I used winxp for the first time, and that was only because I came from 98se (which was just shy of the bane of humanity, whose title then belonged to win98). After a while using XP, I realized it was actually garbage, and that "good compared to" was not the measure I wanted for my os, and so began my search for a daily Linux. This was 20 years ago. They have decidedly not gotten better in those 20 years.
Indeed. I remember someone I respected raving that they had their new WinXP computer on for 2 weeks straight without it crashing and being blown away by the new advanced technology.
Teenage me didn't have any idea that would have been a low bar even in the 1980s.
It's been a long time since they have done anything well. Look at how much of a flop OneDrive was. They don't have the framework as a company to develop and train AI to be the way the leaked email wants it to be