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user-inactivated  ·  3870 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Windows Store is a Cesspool of Scams — Why Doesn’t Microsoft Care?

I don't think they're incompetent, making good software just isn't one of their goals. They've had plenty of brilliant people working for them over the years. The NT kernel was beautiful, but the OS they built on top of it was crap. Crap was all they needed to shoulder into the workstation market, so crap was what they shipped. Bing is a halfway decent search engine because the competition is Google.