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Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?

A user criticizes Microsoft for releasing unfinished AI and web apps, calling the company's recent products fragile and half-baked, and questioning when employers will refuse to accept Microsoft treating paying customers as unpaid beta testers.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 23, 2026

| |||||||||||| 2 points by | Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers? | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |

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