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Originally Posted by hardcastle
Your confusion stems from ignorance, then.
Games for Windows is ending support for its games in July of this year and is no longer being supported. The Zune player was killed in 2011, and the marketplace was shutdown in 2013. Things unique to the Zune brand, like the subscription model, might as well have never happened.
Each version of Internet Explorer is billed as "no THIS is the one that will fix it," with the last quickly forgotten. And of course new updates are tied to hilariously expensive Windows versions, and old versions are abandoned quicker than their respective OS versions.
These examples, which you were so quick to question, are three of hundreds across Microsoft's history; dozens of consumer products that are indicative of a mentality that I as a consumer cannot trust. 18 months from now they'll give up anything I buy from them unless it's entrenched in their Windows/Office ecosystem or makes a massive splash.
And even that's not a guarantee. The Xbox 360 was making big waves, and suddenly Microsoft shows up with the original announced vision of Xbox One: a brazenly terrible anti-consumer product that was only dialed back when consumers pre-ordered its competitor instead. They're an unqualified mess. |
Igorance goes both ways, apparently. Zune is what brought consumers subscription based music, a service that Microsoft still offers today through XBOX Music Pass and it spurred other services. It's not exactly the same service, no, but everybody knew that wasn't a viable long-term business model.
XBOX 360 was no longer "making waves", it was outdated and needed to be replaced just as the PlayStation was. Yeah, they made some "anti-consumer" decisions and I don't condone that but don't pretend Google and Apple don't do that as well.
IE has some issues, and being locked into it is the reason I'll probably never buy another RT product. But at least I can use the whole web with it. And to claim it is "abandoned" is ridiculous. For one, it's a free product. Yeah, so you have to update to a "new" OS that is over 4 years old to use the latest version. Like no other software would ever require you do that.
Microsoft is far from perfect, but let's try keeping things in perspective here.