#microsoftsucks is something I've seen proven over and over, since the company came into existence. It always amazes me to see some very strong software engineers aligned with Microsoft, but to never see any proof of that in their products. This shows something is inherently broken in that company, and it'll never be fixed. Of course the obvious flaw is the #capitalism approach to development, which values money over people (programmers and users), but something else must degrade the output. ...
... Otherwise, we'd expect the same dynamic to play out at Google, IBM, etc. The technology landscape has a ton of convicted (or should be convicted) #monopolists, but if #capitalism was the sole reason for producing crap, then all capitalists would be producing crap. There's a culture element in there as well. In my own career, it seems that the degree of autonomy is the key. This implies, that in a world that valued quality, cooperatives should rule, but somehow Microsoft still has a monopoly.
