Excel's February Existential Crisis

Content DECISIONS AND OUTCOMES One of the reasons porting games to Stadia was slow was Google's decision to program games in Linux instead of C, the language used by Sony and Microsoft. "If you wanted to make a game work on Google Stadia, you had to write it in Linux," says Pachter. "Let's sav it costs 5 million bucks. Why would you spend 5 million bucks writing a game for an audi- ence of two people?" As one of the world's wealthiest companies, Google paid or persuaded companies to overlook those costs. EA released Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on Stadia in November 2020. Other heavy hitters, including Rockstar, Ubisoft, and Capcom, also pub- lished Stadia games. Google also opened in-house studios, hiring Electronic Arts' widely admired group general manager Jade Raymond to run its newly formed games and entertainment division. I was skeptical because I had seen things like that before. - ED FRIES, FORMER HEAD OF MICROSOFT STUDIOS AND A MEMBER OF THE IGDA FOUNDATION BOARD They made headed deci keep this on build Stadia - MICHAEL PACHTER, WEDBUSH SECURITIES ALL THE RIGH Having seen sever missed Stadia as de prised them with hired Phil Harriso played a key role it run Stadia. Harris star players such

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

Content githubVisualStudio: GitHub EX X GitHub, Inc. US https:github.comgithubVisualStudio search Pull requests Issues Marketplace Explore Watch github VisualStudio Code Issues Pull requests Projects Wiki Insights GitHub Extension for Visual Studio https:visualstudio.github.com visual-studio c-sharp git github 6,027 commits 146 branches 85 releases 30 contributors Branch: master w Name .ncrunch L docs I script 5ed9b3d C scripts G sc 7 submodules 7 tools New pull request vIessc Merge branch 'master' into featureserilog-logging Tweak layout Update octokit. graphql to 0.0.2. WIP: Add fork feature. Remove Appleyor references from test script Merge branch 'master" into fixesnewPullRequest-null-check Updated akavache again. Merge branch 'master' into fixes1686-mark-pr-branch Need these debugging tools too Create new rile Date 7 months ago a month ago 2 months ago 6 months ago 4 months ago 5 days ago 11 days ago 6 days ago 7 months ago Upload files Find file g T : Star Fork MIT Clone or download

Microsoft's evolution of failure screens is truly inspiring. The iconic Blue Screen of Death with its sad emoticon has been upgraded to a sleek, minimalist Black Screen of Death. Progress! Now when your system crashes, you can experience existential dread in dark mode. Notice how they've gone from "20% complete" to "0% complete" – perfectly capturing Microsoft's commitment to honesty in user experience. Nothing says "we've given up" quite like removing even the pretense of progress.

Oh look, it's the dystopian timeline where Microsoft finally stops pretending and just puts a literal paywall on your operating system! Windows 10, 11, 12? Sure, they're all basically the same thing with rounded corners and more telemetry. But Windows 13? That's when they go full supervillain mode with a subscription model that makes Adobe look generous. $19.99 monthly or $190 annually just to CONTINUE using your OS? At this rate, they'll probably lock the Start Menu behind a premium tier and make you watch ads to access File Explorer. The guy's face going from mildly concerned to full skeleton is honestly the perfect representation of watching your wallet slowly disintegrate every time Microsoft announces a "new feature."

You know that senior dev who insisted on writing production code in Microsoft Word because "it has syntax highlighting if you squint hard enough"? Yeah, their decisions are now your problem. The parallel here is brutal: just like poor lifestyle choices during pregnancy can affect the child decades later, that cowboy coder who merged straight to main without tests in 2004 has cursed you with a codebase that imports time , datetime , AND requests in a file called utils.py that somehow controls the entire authentication system. The YouTube video claiming Word is the "best IDE for programming" is the cherry on top. Some sins echo through eternity, and using Word as an IDE is definitely one of them. The tech debt doesn't just compound—it metastasizes.