Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw(computerworld.com) |
Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw(computerworld.com) |
IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies.
Microsoft is effectively dead.
It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their entire corporation is bloated and unable to focus on anything meaningful.
That doesn't mean they'll disappear tomorrow, or in 5 years, or even in 20. They've already lost whatever relevance they had, and will have to fight to get it back. There will be something called Microsoft still churning recognizably Microsoft slop, because they have a lot of money and resources with which to continue flailing.
It's the year of the Linux desktop, and Windows has fallen.
wish i ran a dead company that did 67 billion in revenue last year, with year-over-year increases.
>Microsoft is effectively dead.
damn, and this dead company did 280 billion in revenue last year.
(you have a ~unique~ definition of dead.)
Microsoft is the 4th largest company by market cap.
GCC, OpenJ9, Wayland, GNOME, systemd,...
Valve has to translate Windows games to have any content worth playing on Steam Deck.
Everyone and their dog use VSCode, npm, Typescript, Github, LinkedIn,...
There is no other IAM/SIEM solution that I know of out there that makes it possible for a single guy to manage the companies' strict compliance requirements.
The complete integration just keeps getting more valuable and hard to replace every day.
Meanwhile, Azure is the #2 cloud and still growing pretty fast. They own nearly the entire dev tool ecosystem at most companies (Github, VSCode, NPM), and pretty much every single F500 company's IT runs on Microsoft tech, for better or for worse.
The mistake is thinking that Windows is still their flagship product. It's not, it's basically a side quest now.
The there is also the cloud like other comments already mentioned.
There's a running joke that you don't pay some mariachis for singing, you tip them to get them to go away.
In a similar vein, Maybe Microsoft can figure out how to monetize not having to use Windows as a service.
"You don't have to use teams and outlook any longer" is certainly a nice pitch.
TAX THE TOKENS
100%
Don't let these companies take from our societies without giving back
politicians: if you aren't taxing the tokens you ain't getting my vote
They never seem to have any problem with this if you take out the words "vibe coded", so it's not that crazy to me that adding it doesn't make a difference
As far as I know MSFT started open sourcing some of their own tech just shy of a decade ago, but white labelling OS tech I haven't seen much, maybe WSL?
Meta ruining it's pristine cybersecurity reputation, and Nadella throwing this buffoonery on the same week.
When the AI market crashes, it will be the first market crisis where employees will be hired en masse rather than fired.
so I guess, one more tool does not really matter
Microsoft is about to introduce a worse and less secure version of OpenClaw to their Enterprise customers. What could go wrong??
Edit for those curious:
https://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/August2016/Chrom...
_Which_ copilot? Lots of big businesses are buying github copilot for their devs, I wouldn't call it a flop by any stretch.
I doubt you’ll feel so strongly in a month or two.
"Get the confidence to move from agentic AI experimentation to enterprise-scale operations by giving your IT and security teams a control plane to observe, govern, and secure every agent across your organization."
I'm not sure, but it's not what I said, so I'm not sure why you're asking me. What I said is that if you take out "vibe coded" from "Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated", you get something that they already do. I don't see anything about OS programs in that.
The only advantage they have is inertia; software works on windows that doesn't work on other platforms. Those are a tiny, tiny percentage of cases. Microsoft brings nothing to the table; you're going to have an easier time, be more secure, spend less money, deal with less hassle, if you use Linux. Linux hassles me less over the course of a month than Windows does in a single day of use.
So yeah, Microsoft has a lot of wealth and resources. They don't have a point, anymore. There's no innovation, progress in development, novel or unique products, etc - they're effectively dead, as far as the market goes. They're going to have to undergo an epic struggle and battle for relevance, or within 20 years they're going to be a lot like IBM or Yahoo or even Bear Sterns.
They're the 4th largest company because they underwent an epic struggle and seized on a purpose and were driven to develop the best in class enterprise operating system and went tooth and nail against Apple for decades. Now they're a second rate mishmash of adtech surveillance grifting, meaningless, flailing product development, prancing around and cashing out the reputation that was built, and supremely vulnerable.
But yeah, they're big. I'm sure that will suffice to keep them alive for a long time. There just won't be a point - unless they get leadership that revitalizes the entire organization. I don't see that happening.
I never understand these takes like they did this much in revenue. OP acknowledges that, they have enterprise down and are too big to fail. What’s to say they couldn’t be doing more revenue? Or even better year over year if they played their cards right. Don’t get me started on GitHub and VSCode. Popular projects are leaving GitHub and VSCode wasn’t able to monetize itself where many forks were able to do so.
