Microsoft yearns to be a tasteless shell that does nothing but sell barely-functional M365 subscriptions and Azure to businesses. Let’s just let them do that, and stop pretending that they’re doing anything interesting or worthy of prestige.

Libraries at the office that serve as definitive truth for relevant information?

Nah books are lame.

Office Suite?

Too logical. Let's just rename it to Copilot.

Windows updates that work?

Yeah right.

And the list goes on and on.

Though Steve Jobs infamously closed the Apple Library (which had existed since 1981) after he returned in 1997:

> “Who uses all of this?” asked Steve.

> Monica answered, “The engineers use this to do research.”

> Steve’s response: “They should know all that already.”

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> Word spread throughout Apple that the library was closing. Employees were outraged, but an email campaign to save the library proved hopeless. Condolences came in from Microsoft’s library staff, and flowers and thank you notes were left outside of the locked doors by employees.

https://annamancini.substack.com/p/how-the-apple-archive-end...