• Zacryon@feddit.org
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    11 days ago

    The logic behind the voice controls sounds pretty questionable, but it’s supposedly backed by data showing that users spend billions of minutes talking in Microsoft Team meetings, according to Mehdi — so they’re already used to talking on the computer, right?

    Do they really reason like this? Oh my. That’s stupid. And here I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people

      As a programmer, I’ve had numerous colleagues who have ended up as software engineers at MS. They were mostly either unbelievably lazy or extremely incompetent. The rest who were both ended up there as managers.

    • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      And during those billions of minutes, most of them are cursing the existence of the spyware experience that is teams.