This is such an insightful answer. I totally forgot about MS’ famously toxic internal culture. Some bureaucratic piece of middle managed budgeting goes out informing the PMs that products not involving AI get 70% of their previous budgets and suddenly notepad has AI-assisted writing prompts and Minesweeper is asking if you’d like to play Global Thermonuclear War. It all makes sense now!
This is such an insightful answer. I totally forgot about MS’ famously toxic internal culture. Some bureaucratic piece of middle managed budgeting goes out informing the PMs that products not involving AI get 70% of their previous budgets and suddenly notepad has AI-assisted writing prompts and Minesweeper is asking if you’d like to play Global Thermonuclear War. It all makes sense now!