It's almost as if ...... each C-suite, from Amazon to Meta and all the others, to Microsoft now, have simultaneously been drinking from the same bowl of Kool-Aide."'These are the kinds of hard choices we have made throughout our 47-year history to remain a consequential company in this industry that is unforgiving to anyone who doesn’t adapt to platform shifts,” Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, said."Microsoft?  "Consequential"?  Haha, OK, but perhaps not in the type of way in which any technically-talented person would be proud.  Someone who flushes a firecracker down a toilet is similarly "consequential".Oh, please tells us, MS, how you've made the world so much better (rather than what you've actually done: made tons of money by crippling people's perception of what computers can do)?And finally, for my last translation:"[Microsoft] looks to trim costs amid economic uncertainty and to refocus on strategic priorities, such as artificial intelligence."Really means: "Shareholders want more money, and we really don't know what to do ... so we'll do what we've always done: wait to see what the real computer scientists, at publiclly-funded labs, think up, and then monetize that.  For now, let's just keep repeating the words 'artificial intelligence' like blathering idiots."Remember folks, it's always "socialize the costs, privatize the profits."  MS specializes in rent-seeking -- not satisfying user needs.If you want the latter, run Linux. It's free.

It's almost as if ...... each C-suite, from Amazon to Meta and all the others, to Microsoft now, have simultaneously been drinking from the same bowl of Kool-Aide."'These are the kinds of hard choices we have made throughout our 47-year history to remain a consequential company in this industry that is unforgiving to anyone who doesn’t adapt to platform shifts,” Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, said."Microsoft?  "Consequential"?  Haha, OK, but perhaps not in the type of way in which any technically-talented person would be proud.  Someone who flushes a firecracker down a toilet is similarly "consequential".Oh, please tells us, MS, how you've made the world so much better (rather than what you've actually done: made tons of money by crippling people's perception of what computers can do)?And finally, for my last translation:"[Microsoft] looks to trim costs amid economic uncertainty and to refocus on strategic priorities, such as artificial intelligence."Really means: "Shareholders want more money, and we really don't know what to do ... so we'll do what we've always done: wait to see what the real computer scientists, at publiclly-funded labs, think up, and then monetize that.  For now, let's just keep repeating the words 'artificial intelligence' like blathering idiots."Remember folks, it's always "socialize the costs, privatize the profits."  MS specializes in rent-seeking -- not satisfying user needs.If you want the latter, run Linux. It's free.

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