With the enshittification of all-things-Google, a lot of us have left Chromium-based browsers for Firefox. But still, over the last 15 years, Firefox has gone from 30%+ market share to about 6% now.
With the big backlash against them over the last week, I’ve seen a number of people advocating for Librewolf and Waterfox – Firefox forks focused on security and privacy – but if Firefox loses what little revenue it has left, what will become of the forks if Firefox dies?
But microsoft is garbage company so that doesn’t say much. They’ve been trying to remake their settings page for more than a decade and it is still shit.
Bad argument, Microsoft is among the three most valuable companies in the world, when something is important to them they get it done properly (e.g. hyperv is the best made part of windows, because they need it for azure). The settings page doesn’t get them money, only nerds care if it’s bad, a browser does.
Microsoft is a scourge and we be better off if it was nuked off the face of this planet. They are the principal cause of why computing has been and remains shiite since they began to exist. Their farcical speculative value based on gambling make-believe stock market is the bad argument. When it comes ti microsoft the only problem is that it’s not being exterminated fast enough and also is the worst hypervisor except for vmware and also makes every other hypervisor worse by it’s simple existence. Curse the demonic plague known as bill gates, may he be sent back to the windows eleventh circle of hell !
LMAO
Microsoft pays for a lot of opensource development, you may not like it but you still need its work, including Lennart Pottering’s salary (and don’t even start with “systemd bad”).
“Hyperv is the worst”… Shut up and come back when your hypervisor has proper GPU paravirtualization on all vendors.
I very well understand the trappings if soft power, of buying leverage and market dumping to buy market share.
You seem to be under the illusion tgat those things aren’t the very cancer at tge heart of tech.
You need to step aside, my bulldozer has a date with microsoft datacenters and we’re having pancakes, concrete pancakes with demonic server stuffing in between the layers.
It just shows that they only care when money is involved. They dont even have proper security, which is the reason why they even switched from Microsoft Servers to Linux based Servers.
They cant get shit right. Out of many things, one thing of them is great… cool, what about the rest?
You are missing the point. They care when money is involved, and yet they failed to maintain a browser engine, which would have (for the better or for the worse) a central part of most people’s computing.
And yet, despite the browser being so important… They gave up and handed the cake to Google.
Then let me correct myself.
Microsoft sucks in general and cant get shit right.