• lectricleopard@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Never did. It’s just more and more obvious with each new “feature” that it’s built for monetization, not for user functionality.

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      6 months ago

      In the '90s and early 2000s, Microsoft’s business model was the classic one of selling products to customers. Today, it’s all about the cloud, advertising, and AI, where the product is the user.