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Posted3 months agoActive3 months ago
Ask HN: Why have Microsoft products gone downhill?
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Ask HN: Why have Microsoft products gone downhill?
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They had to scale back all the instances when they used openai as the llm (GitHub copilot) and now they are using their own proprietary model which is just ok at best.
3 months ago
If they are going to lose the LLM race, at least they could invest in building a great frontend to interact with the non-MS models to capture a share of the revenue... Right now their frontend is one of the worst AND their model is one of the worst.
3 months ago
microsoft wants to silo its users and lock them into a tablet like subscription service, this is just a very old MS tendency, to wake up for a second see what competition has been doing for the last few years then emulate with facepaint on it, and take a snooze again.