It’s not really necessary to get their claws in him; the more this trend gains attention, the less nuanced and directed the trajectory will become. Microsoft is much more equipped to algorithmically control the trajectory than what’s-his-name, so they will.
If they’re not too distracted with providing warfighting capabilities to our boys here and abroad.
Somebody in the MS marketing department: ‘Everyone hates clippy. What can we do about this?’
‘Paste a couple gifs of a CGI dog on top of it?’
‘Genius! Let’s go to our two week lunch!’
30 years later:
'Everyone hates us. What can we do about this?’
‘Make it fashionable for people born in 2003 to pretend to be nostalgic for Clippy?’
It started from right to repair advocate Louis Rossman. If MS has got their claws in him the right to repair movement has just stalled out.
It’s not really necessary to get their claws in him; the more this trend gains attention, the less nuanced and directed the trajectory will become. Microsoft is much more equipped to algorithmically control the trajectory than what’s-his-name, so they will.
If they’re not too distracted with providing warfighting capabilities to our boys here and abroad.