Why is Microsoft so bad at making interfaces?

[kitler53]

kowenicki said:
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Paranoia.

Google is not a software company. In the same way MS is not a gaming company and Sony isn't a finance company.

MS is synonymous with software, Sony with hardware and Google with advertising. Everything Google does is about generating ad revenue.

The Forbes top 2000 company list agrees with me, you disagree with me... so I'll stick with my original answer if you dont mind.

 

The top 10 companies in the 2015 list for the "Software & Programming" industry are:

Rank	Organisation	Revenue	FY	Market cap	Headquarters	Refs
1		Microsoft	$93.58	2015	$439	Redmond, WA, USA	[1][2]
2		Oracle	$38.27	2015	$194.7	Redwood City, CA, USA	[3][4]
3		SAP	$23.3	2014	$85.9	Walldorf, Germany	[5][6]
4		Salesforce.com	$6.61	2015	$52.9	San Francisco, CA, USA	[7][8]
5		Symantec	$6.58	2015	$17.7	Mountain View, CA, USA	[9][10]
6		VMware	$6.04	2014	$35.3	Palo Alto, CA, USA	[11][12]
7		Fiserv	$5.66	2014	$17.2	Brookfield, WI, USA	[13][14]
8		CA Technologies	$4.26	2014	$13.7	Islandia, NY, USA	[15][16]
9		Intuit	$4.19	2015	$26.0	Mountain View, CA, USA	[17][18]
10		Amadeus IT Group	$4.1	2013	$17.7	Madrid, Spain	[19][20]

again,. such a weird, narrow view on the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software

google makes software and pays for their investment via ad revune instead of direct purchase.  big fucking deal.  are you going to tell me abc doesn't make television programming then because they pay for that programing by making people watch ads?  ..or maybe your going to tell me the xbox and surface are actually pieces of software because ms is a software company?