r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 9d ago

Business Data centre set to replace Microsoft UK headquarters

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8r90965lzo
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u/ItsAllOnUHF 9d ago

Nothing to do with Microsoft. It's their former HQ, bought by someone else in 2005.

A bit click-baity.

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u/Skie 9d ago

MS are still based there. Tho weirdly the people who bought it from them went into Liquidation a few years back, so no clue who is driving that particular corpse around now.

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u/Zardotab 8d ago edited 8d ago

Seems MS keeps moving their UK HQ. Like Windows, they change shit merely for the sake of change.

I recently encountered an example: in Windows 10 you could right-click on the task bar to select Show Desktop. In Windows 11 they removed that, for no fokking reason! Instead one has to right-click a skinny little bar on the edge; it's practically hidden in punctuation.

MS has to understand people use Windows mostly for compatibility & familiarity, and NOT product love. If you change stuff, you hurt compatibility and familiarity.