• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    So, Microsoft recognized and responded to all the complaints by removing the feature that people were objecting to.

    Resulting headline: “Microsoft is trying to hide the evidence that they were thinking of doing that thing we hated! Hate them harder!”

    Do people want companies to just ignore complaints completely because there’s no way to satisfy anyone anyway?

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      ehh… I think you’re missing the part where Microsoft is actively exploiting its customer base throughout its entire product catalogue - the likelihood that this is an actual win is no.

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        They’re tasked with infinitely growing their stock price. That is a suicide job. Working big tech in the USA sucks right now because there’s no concept of just maintaining and maintaining something well, unless you’re Valve and steam

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          You could always start suing the US government for allowing shareholder primacy in the first place. Stakeholder primacy is the way to go and everyone knows that. Everyone besides corporate knuckleheads.

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            This is my first time hearing stakeholder primacy as a term. Can you elaborate on what the grounds you’d sue the stakeholders on? Ie what is the legal premise that you’re proposing you can hold them accountable for?

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              I never said you sue the stakeholders. They could sue the government for allowing this shit in the first place.

              Stakeholder primacy is just the opposition of shareholder primacy essentially. Stakeholders are the employees, the community/society around the company like the town or city it is in. As in they have obligation to care for that.

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                Do they legally have an obligation to care for that? I’m still not understanding what would make this even remotely likely to succeed.

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                  This explains it well. Shareholder primacy isnt that old even. Stakeholder primacy used to be the norm and according to this article should also be the future goal.

                  So yes, this works very well and has so in the past. The current model of infinite growth is unsustainable both physically and environmentally.

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                  Nothing. It’s a pretty fantasy. Best I think we can hope for is a few monopolies busted up so some little guys can break into the market. That’ll buy us about 20 years until those little guys have become the new Googles and Microsofts and Apples, and then we start over. We need to entirely rewrite how we do antitrust assessments to account for both vertical and horizontal monopolistic behaviors (a vertical monopoly is a company that controls the entire supply chain where a horizontal one controls the market and customer base. Historically, the US has been more concerned with horizontal monopolies.) It’d be great if we could come up with a better measure of consumer choice that we currently use. If you have the choice between 2 ISPs but they both charge the same amount for the same service, you don’t really have a choice there…at least not a meaningful one.

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      People want companies to stop trying to exploit them in every little way.

      We can be satisfied by respecting us and treating us as customers, even when advertisers are throwing money at them.

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        And that’s what Microsoft has apparently done in this case, yet it’s being spun negatively anyway.

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          Because they didn’t come out saying they won’t enable ads. They just quietly renamed the toggle to say something else, and that is shady AF. Why are you trying to spin it positively?

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          Give it a few more months and ads will be back. They dropped us in boiling water and expected us to just accept it. Microsoft will just slowly boil us next time.

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          It’s not about the current state of their OS, it is about the corporate attitude to users.

          Microsoft are treating users not as valued customers purchasing a product, but as a resource to be manipulated and sold off to the cheapest bidder.

          They may have backflipped on actual ads in the Start Menu, purely due to user backlash, but they still have game/app/bullshit recommendations and reinstalled garbage, unless you are a windows sysadmin and know jo to use a Profile Editor.

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      They don’t deserve praise for not doing something bad. They deserve praise when they do something good that they weren’t forced to do.

      They didn’t do this from goodwill, but because it was predicted to hurt the bottom line. They’ll do it again as soon as it’s forgotten about. This isn’t the last you’ve heard from this.