Comment by davisr

You can absolutely be mad at a lawnmower that cut your foot off as there isn't any scenario where your feet should be at risk during normal operation of a regular lawnmower. Unless I intentionally try to insert my foot into the blades somehow, such dangerous faults would be entirely on the manufacturer.

Now if you proceed with he same horrible lawnmower and cut off your other foot, then that might be on you.

While the analogy is being stretched, same applies here - if Microsoft makes terrible footguns, then that's on Microsoft even if the users should have stopped using Microsoft by now.

> If you're using Microsoft in 2026, that's on you.

Not necessarily. I don't use Microsoft on my personal machines, but my employer forces me to use it at work.

It's not on me, it's on my employer, which forces me to use a laptop with MS Windows installed. Sure, I ssh into a machine running Linux where I do real work, but still.

Also - lots of people are used to it and habits die hard, regardless of technical merit etc.

Microsoft is staffed by highly educated adults. They have agency to do better and actually serve their paying customers well. They choose not to.