Just goes to prove even with infinite money you can build successful software. It's been a long time since MS created software that people love. The only current exceptions I can think of are not consumer products, but developer products: vscode and typescript.
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A kind reminder that neither MS DOS, Age of Empires, excel or powerpoint where made by Microsoft but bought to steer them from the competition.
They renamed it from Clippy?
I use it at work and it truly is a piece of shit compared to the OpenAI and Anthropoid options