Microsoft was always bad at everything and depended on proprietary lock-in for ages until they were forced out of it one way or another, often due to open-source competition (thankfully!).
"why is anything from microsoft crumbling and just generally bad?
> github goes down every week.
> vscode got lapped by cursor.
> copilot lost the coding race.
> skype died.
> team is just… idk ok at best.
the microsoft infrastructure is crumbling 😬"
https://x.com/birdabo/status/2089394315198152810
https://nitter.poast.org/birdabo/status/2089394315198152810
Dan Ramos 🇵🇹🇺🇸:verified:
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