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Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return
(www.nytimes.com)
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I really don't get the employee position. They want to work at Microsoft? Literally the opposite of everything _open_ai claimed to stand for?
What a joke this whole "non-profit" owning "for-profit" structure turned out to be. For profit structure is like a virus and we see again and again it doesn't integrate with other systems.
Microsoft is not the pile of shit it used to be. See the past 10 years
In what way? Their product lineup is the worst it’s ever been expect maybe xbox, especially software like windows and office. Even Xbox is loosing to Sony and Nintendo despite being a decent product.
In the windows 98-7 era I was die hard. It was a pretty good OS. By modern standards, it’s just awful. Mac and Linux for me.
Xbox and Windows are both by Microsoft but they can't even get that right.
I got a free trial for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that I've been using to play Starfield and a handful of other games on PC. But half the time I go to play it I either get a license error, which usually needs a full PC restart and signing in and out a few times to fix, or it constantly has to sync with the cloud. I can save my game, close it, not even switch off or restart my PC or even close the Xbox app, and later on when I go to play again it has to slowly synchronise my cloud save again. Why?! And if I want to make sure my save can be used on another device, I have to keep the app open for at least 10-15 mins after exiting the game so that the save can sloooowly upload to the cloud. I can upload things to YouTube, Google Drive, etc at 15+ Mbps but Xbox gaming services chugs along at 0.5 Mbps max. It's infuriating.
Honestly, game pass is a pretty good value proposition (lack of game ownership aside), but with the issues I've been having I won't be keeping it after my free time expires. If Steam has been able to handle license verification and cloud saves for years without problems, why can't Microsoft get this shit right? /rant
Sorry, I really needed to vent about this.
They keep bothering me about feedback, and that my trial is going to end in X amount of days. Like.. Yes? I know.. stop bothering me about it.