Microsoft Isn’t Getting Worse. You’re Just Their Unpaid Beta Tester.
Microsoft’s recent products like Teams and Copilot feel frustratingly half-baked, contrasting sharply with their excellent developer tools. The issue isn’t a loss of craftsmanship, but a misaligned incentive system. Internal competition for executive attention rewards speed over polish, turning paying enterprise customers into unpaid beta testers for their AI hype experiments.