Comment by lateforwork
14 hours ago
Here are some things that should be North Star for Microsoft:
- Innovate Office instead of copying competitors. Teams and Loop largely mirror Slack and Notion. Focus on real innovation, especially in long-stagnant products like Word and PowerPoint.
- Stop coercive UX in Windows. Don’t nag users to switch to Edge, Bing, sign in with a Microsoft account, or adopt Copilot.
- Make search foundational everywhere. Searching in Outlook or Teams should be as fast as searching Hacker News.
- Move beyond Flat UI. Flat design is unintuitive and unattractive. Interfaces like NeXTSTEP from decades ago remain more usable, not to mention prettier.
- Retire SQL Server in favor of PostgreSQL compatibility. Provide a first-class SQL Server compatibility layer on Postgres rather than maintaining a separate database.
- Fix display scaling on Surface laptops. 100% and 200% should be the only supported modes. Fractional scaling causes visible artifacts and should not exist on premium hardware.
> - Retire SQL Server in favor of PostgreSQL compatibility. Provide a first-class SQL Server compatibility layer on Postgres rather than maintaining a separate database.
Do you have any idea how much more advanced SQL Server is than Postgres?
> Do you have any idea how much more advanced SQL Server is than Postgres?
In some ways. I'm also aware some SQL Server DBA's think that shipping log files around via SMB is an efficient form of SQL database replication. So YMMV.