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Steve Jobs Microsoft has no taste

Steve Jobs Microsoft has no taste on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2020–2026.

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A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste. It is vintage interview footage about design and product sensibility.

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HN drops it into Microsoft threads as a quick, quotable jab that people feel still holds.

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“It's great vintage Steve Jobs.”
— kemayo, Apr 2024, in “Windows 11 adding ads to Start Menu”

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kemayoApr 2024Recommends

The whole snippet, for anyone who hasn't seen it: ▶ this video (It's great vintage Steve Jobs. He's trying to sound high-minded for a documentary-interview, but he really can't resist getting some digs in.)

in “Windows 11 adding ads to Start Menu” · View on HN

bschwindHNFeb 2026Cites it

> The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. That pretty much describes Microsoft and all they do. Money can't buy taste. He was right: ▶ this video

in “15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram” · View on HN

deanCommieOct 2020Cites it

> Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day "Microsoft has no taste": ▶ this video as true now as it was in the early 90's.

in “PS5 Teardown [video]” · View on HN

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