Microsoft is a public company, which means it is driven by investors. Investors demand the promise of constant growth in a finite market that they've already been dominating (for now), which forces Microsoft to resort to "innovation" in ways to be anti consumer and in flashy features that sound cool and futuristic in an investor presentation but that no user really wants.
When you dominate a market, you stop selling your product to the consumer and start selling it to investors. It is an unbelievably wasteful system if you think of it, wasting tons of resources into making a product worse.
Have you seen Trump's worn out face and meek demeanour in his speech right after the private talk with Putin?
This is the look of someone who just got humiliated and bullied and tries to play it cool.
During the 2007 G8 summit Sarkozy also had the same demeanour in a press conference following a private talk with Putin in private. People originally thought he was drunk. But witness reports confirm that Putin immediately found a way to get under his skin and verbally destroyed and belittled him. Putin is extremely skilled at this and it's obvious he just did the same to Trump. Not that Trump was a particularly difficult victim to manipulate like that.
Oh, he wants "full transparency" on the files he pretended didn't exist, and then pretended that nobody cared about and that everyone should stop talking about, and that he had the FBI scramble to flag every paper that contained his name, and had congress shut down early to avoid a vote on the release of the files, and that he claims that his name was planted in, and that he had people redact his name from it, and had tampered with a key witness on the case, and that he's STILL NOT RELEASING AFTER ALL THAT TIME OF HIS OWN SUPPORTERS DEMANDING IT?
When I'm browsing around with multiple tabs open, the last thing I want is something to start moving them around and messing my flow up. This is a solution looking for a problem.
If Teslas weren't the embodiment of the technological enshittification of cars and the disrespect of their owner's rights to ownership and repair, it would have been a pretty good occasion to buy a cheap EV.
If you could dissociate the brand from its owner like he dissociates with reality, that is.
Both parties have been abusing this to some degree whenever the electoral ridings have been due for redrawing every 10 years as the population changes. This is the slow slide into tolerance of anti democratic practices I was talking about.
But these adjustments weren't due until 2030. The president asking to redraw political maps 5 years early with openly expressed specific intent to gain more seats for his party is an unprecedented new low. At that point they don't even attempt to provide the illusion of free and fair elections
Decades of a culture of no significant consequences for politicians abusing the system in blatantly anti democratic or corrupt ways have have culminated to politicians doing shit like this in the open without any shame.
The US political culture is an embarrassment now. There is a reason why other countries jail their corrupt politicians.
This is the last thing many small rodents will ever see.