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2023-03-13

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  • Search for this: "Revenue, classified by significant product and service offerings"

  • By looking at their 2025 shareholder report (Look for the part below "NOTE 18"), Windows is only at the 5th place in terms of revenue source, even below the LinkedIn:

    https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar25/index.html#

    I can only think that they do not even care about Windows anymore, let alone Notepad...

  • As long as AI (genAI, LLMs, whatever you call it describe the current tech) is perceived not as a "bicycle of the mind" and a tool to utilize 'your' skills to a next phase but as a commodity to be exploited by giant corporations whose existence is based on maximizing profits regardless of virtue or dignity (a basic set of ethics to, for example, not to burn books after you scan it feed your LLM like Anthropic), it is really hard to justify the current state of AI.

    Once you understand the sole winner in this hype is the one who'll be brutally scraping every bit of data, whether it's real-time or static and then refining it to give it back to you without your involvement in the process (a.k.a, learning) you'll come to understand that the current AI by nature is hugely unfavorable to mental progression...

  • Current economic supply/demand balance as well as philosophical principles are so utterly deranged, people lean toward what could maximize their profit. If this is achieved through conformism & doing what you're accustomed to, no one will try to truly innovate and prefer staying in their comfort zone.

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