Big Tech has lost their mind

I think it’s widely accepted now that Jack Welch and his ‘rank and yank’ approach to ruthlessly drive productivity was very short-sighted and not great for a sustainable business.

Similar parallels could be drawn with Boeing and their move from engineering/quality to growth at all cost.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-production-pressures-plunged-boeing-into-yet-another-crisis-2024-02-09/

Ed Zitron recently wrote a deliciously brutal attack on Google destroying search.

The Man Who Killed Google Search

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week’s Better Offline podcast, “The Man That Destroyed Google Search,” available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story

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I particularly liked this:

“McKinsey is to the middle class what flesh-eating bacteria is to healthy tissue.“ - oof, but he’s done the research."

I’m not going to bring up the EV fella as that’s too obvious.

And now to Microsoft. They’ve been eviscerated lately over their own security posture and hiding logs behind higher paying tiers. Probably quite a bit to be focusing on there - instead they’ve decided to introduce ads to the start menu on Windows 11.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

A new Windows 11 update is rolling out this week.

The Verge

(Those GPUs and data centres don’t pay for themselves I guess)

But a two week testing period to see if customers actually want this is far too short. Put ‘Windows store malware’ into your search engine of choice. We don’t need another attack vector. The article details how to opt out of this when it happens to you (because of course it’s not opt-in).

I’d recommend that.