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Roger Wright27-Mar-23 10:36
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Gerry Schmitz27-Mar-23 12:05
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pcbugfixer27-Mar-23 20:28
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Peter Shaw28-Mar-23 4:29
professionalPeter Shaw28-Mar-23 4:29 
That, and MS no longer cares what people who "know what they are doing" think.

By catering only to the sheeple, and getting the sheeple to follow the train and do as they are told, they can quite simply say when someone does something different... it's your fault you broke it, now go away.

By reducing their "support costs" to this kind of level they save a stupid amount of money all of which is funnelled towards profit.

If you know what your doing, and try to get assistance with it, they don't want to know you (Unless you have a corporate support agreement where your paying them) because your costing them money to deal with you, money that's taken away from the profit margin.

By reducing things to their simplest concepts, getting folks to follow what they are told, and hiding away (or at the very least making anything that allows the sheeple to load a foot-gun) they don't have this cost anymore.

Why do you think everything is done on-line these days too. There used to be a time where companies advertised an address, an email and a telephone line... look at the footers in most now... the footers in majority of sites, list ONLY what is needed for things like legal compliance (Such as HQ addresses for tax reasons), and it's not just MS to be fair, I've just had my run of fun trying to get my password changed on Facebook, my wife a couple of months ago got a new phone and swapping her google account over to it from the old one was stupidly painful, and more complex than it needed to be.

So yes, bottom line definitely all about money, but also about trying to remove that element that continues to cause money to be used up too.

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