No, but Windows is so entrenched that they don’t need to actually be competitive in order to keep making profit. Instead, the Windows team has to invent things nobody ever wanted or needed that they can advertise to make it look like they’re still useful. Software UX polish-passes don’t make good marketing. You can’t seriously put “you know that one weird thing that only happened to a fraction of users sporadically? we fixed it” on a marketing campaign.
You make some good points. I would be happy if they just made it faster, more reliable, and more secure (incremental improvements) and I personally don’t want or need a lot of “wow factor” out of the stupid OS. But I do understand what you’re saying. A lot of those MBAs, etc, that they hired need to justify their jobs and so on.
No, but Windows is so entrenched that they don’t need to actually be competitive in order to keep making profit. Instead, the Windows team has to invent things nobody ever wanted or needed that they can advertise to make it look like they’re still useful. Software UX polish-passes don’t make good marketing. You can’t seriously put “you know that one weird thing that only happened to a fraction of users sporadically? we fixed it” on a marketing campaign.
You make some good points. I would be happy if they just made it faster, more reliable, and more secure (incremental improvements) and I personally don’t want or need a lot of “wow factor” out of the stupid OS. But I do understand what you’re saying. A lot of those MBAs, etc, that they hired need to justify their jobs and so on.