• tomiant@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    They can’t. The spaghetti code base is ancient. You can’t really take anything out at this point because it’s what keeps it alive.

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        19 hours ago

        The IT press was saying a decade or so ago the Microsoft had lost control of its code base and it would bloat and run like slug. Looks like nothing has changed. Too late to fix it with all the AI tokens in the world.

        • De Lancre@lemmy.world
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          10 hours ago

          Any software can be fixed, it just that amount of effort needed for that would be insane in case of windows, so at this point it’s easier to use ostrich algorithm

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            9 hours ago

            Yeah we can’t expect them to be able to hire the expertise required for this, it’s not like they made over $1,000,000,000 net income last year or anything. Oh wait…