I think I've experienced enough "Fuck Microsoft!" moments over the years to totally justify posting this.
From MacDailyNews:
Microsoft is (still!) led by a confused clown and hopelessly polluted at its upper levels with political schemers and backstabbers. It's amazing the bloated carcass can even produce a product at this point, even if it is a product for a market that does not exist outside of Microsoft's delusional dreams/misleading advertising campaigns.
The company is a failure. That's why its products are failures, too. GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
In the end, Microsoft will be a mere footnote; a blotch on the early timeline of computing that nobody will remember fondly, if at all.
As we explained quite clearly last October in yet another prescient Take that even Microsoft could have read, long before they were forced to swallow a $900 million write-off over their Surface flop:
That dumbass kickstand is yet another ill-considered, misguided, corporate committee-driven "differentiation" squirted out of Microsoft's back door unbidden onto the public.
Microsoft is staffed with stupid and/or lazy people. There's no other explanation besides crippling narcissism – which is a very real possibility. Most people use iPads while lounging around. All Microsoft's Surface "team" had to do was buy some real iPads and use them for a few weeks. Steve Jobs himself even demonstrated the iPad while reclining in a comfy leather chair, not sitting upright at a friggin' desk. Microsoft was shown the way and, once again, they failed to properly follow Apple's lead. By now, that's just stupid and/or lazy.
Microsoft suffers from delusions of grandeur. They think they matter and that people will buy their pretend iPad over other pretend iPads because it's from Microsoft. Microsoft does not matter. Microsoft no longer has the power to sell superfluous products. The world already has iPad. The thinking world finally woke up and moved on from Microsoft's soul-sapping dreck. That clueless Microsoft haven't figured this out years ago (Zune, Kin, how many total face-plants do they need?) is illustrative of the depths of their delusions.
More here.
Today I agree with you. They "improved" Bing so I had to hunt all over hell to find my hotmail. If it wasn't such a pain in the ass to change to something different for email after all these years with hotmail, I'd be doing it right now.
And yet, there is a legion of über-geeks out there who will defend WinDoze to the death. Go figure. Stupid is as stupid does. Or as P.T. Barnum supposedly said, "There's a sucker born every minute."