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-> push software that needs tons of ram
-> cause ram shortage
-> ???
-> ...profit?
At least for Enterprise where the real money is, "???" seems to be https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/windows-365-enterprise
This isn't some grand plan 5d chess. The people running these companies are dumb as hell and lucky. They get convinced from one silicon valley thought leader's blog post that ai and electron are the future and then direct the entire company in that direction thinking they're a great leader who will be remembered for pushing the company in a novel direction at just the right time. They attend a talk by a different thought leader who talks about a future of ai cloud computers that anyone can access from anywhere with more computational power than could ever fit into the shitty laptop they're accessing it from, then they go to the board meeting the next day with their bright new idea to do cloud personal desktops.
These companies are entirely responding to (nonsensical) market forces and the whims of high ranking individuals within their ranks. It's painful and ridiculous.
To be clear, there are some benefits to provisioning enterprise devices in a tightly controlled cloud environment, but we've all seen ideas with "some benefits" get shot down by managers and CEOs who "don't get why anyone would want that" so I'm not keen on giving Microsoft too much credit.
-> …profit?
They're already hitting the storage side of things pretty hard.
Buy up all of the hardware on the planet to have a monopoly on compute/storage -> rent the compute/storage to everyone who can't buy it.
See also: Housing
Posting scammy Amazon links feels like cheating when having these discussions, but I kinda get where they're coming from. The fact that people can try to sell a laptop with only 64gb disk is absolutely mental to me, because that's not even enough to let the BASE OS run normally and update reliably. And that's before you start doing anything on it.
We could view this as "MS pushes for stupid direction that clued-in tech people are opposed to," or we could view this as "MS gives up on native apps because everyone else of consequence already has." I hate it but I have eyes.
If AI enhanced coding is really so great, we might expect to see a Renaissance of small, efficient native apps, even on platforms like Android. I'm not holding my breath, though.
the worst thing about electron apps besides everything about election apps are the fact that there's no shared libraries so you basically have to have a billion of the same node modules on your system for every electron app that you have.
Javascript creator thinks they are rushing things.
Javascript creator thinks they are rushing things.
One can learn from their mistakes
Microsoft also make the one app that actually shines in electron: vs code. It's really quite optimised. But somehow they didn't bother learning lessons from that and keep rolling out terrible slop like teams and new outlook.
It's weird how one company can do things right and also be do incompetent at the same time.
I can't stand VScode, whoever decided a text editor should be written in HTML/CSS and JavaScript deserves to be shot
I just realized I've been staring at this picture for over a minute, trying to figure out what it means. What does this picture mean?
Part of a old joke about various big tech org charts. Microsoft divisions are purported to be in not only fighting with each other but also within themselves.
Even thought Microsoft is one company, all the internal teams are separate, don't communicate and usually do what they want with no regard to anything else the other teams are doing. Been an issue with Microslop for years, and its especially noticeable in their office/email divisions.
Ahh. That seems suboptimal and makes the picture make a lot more sense, thanks.
Tbf vscode has opensource contributors and they had the code for atom text editor (by developers of electron and github) to look as reference code.
Rip Atom, it's a shame microsoft bought github and ended your development to promote their IDE. Who could have known they have no morals.
Isn’t VS Code open-sourced? Can those optimizations be contributed to the wider community of electron experts?
I guess my point is VS Code works well because the users can fix it and they have the ability to do so. The same cant be said for Teams & Outlook. No one can fix that PoS.
The next step in app delivery is shipping a full VM with the operating system and the app.
Docker?
Snap/Flatpak basically (I know containers are not exactly VMs)
Minesweeper as a Docker container.
Once again, Microslop is a strong contender for Linux Marketer Of The Year award
Yeah sounds like an AI agent decided that.
Just build Electron native or something, christ.
Today it took almost 30 seconds for the context menu to appear when I right clicked on a file in windows explorer. I mean ffs, if I wanted everything to be a browser, I'd use a chromebook.
(Inb4 "install linux", it's a work computer and I don't get a say in OS)
Look into cleaning up your context menu shell extensions: just a single bad one will freeze your context menu exactly how you described it.
Unfortunately, I have literally zero control over what's installed on my computer at work
work computer, Win 11, here. I need to lock my PC when I leave my desk. Over the last month or 2 (maybe more?) when I 3 finger salute to lock, it used to open in a moment, now I can count to at least 4 before the screen comes up
Windows+L locks it directly, fyi
Theres another windows+L shortcut as well, windows+ctrl+shift+alt+l. It opens linkedin. Because why not
Oh, nice, tks. too bad they have destroyed many of our trust. Thankfully there is no win 11 at home on any pc and only 1 win 10 that I do not maintain. GF and I are both on linux
This sentence reads like Microsoft is the inventor of Javascript:
Electron apps are ruining the Windows 11 experience, and even the JavaScript creator has warned against ‘rushed web UX over native,’
So there's 3 things, either they meant Typescript, they are very wrong or they're quoting Brendan Eich and not attributing it to him.
