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this_user ◴[] No.46194851[source]
Microsoft's entire business model for decades has been to shove shoddy products down people's throats. And somehow, they have figured out how to do it too, because otherwise Teams wouldn't be used by anyone.
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janlukacs ◴[] No.46194868[source]
I find it fascinating how they are able to sell their crap software.
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1. esskay ◴[] No.46195247[source]
Ditto. The more interesting part is how many people will defend it. Presumably some mix of post-purchase rationalisation and inherited assumptions about what's "standard" even when those assumptions stopped being true ages ago.