Steve Jobs Microsoft has no taste
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN drops it into Microsoft threads as a quick, quotable jab that people feel still holds.
What it is
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste. It is vintage interview footage about design and product sensibility.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends kemayo · 2024-04 · on “Windows 11 adding ads to Start Menu”
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.)
Cites deanCommie · 2020-10 · on “PS5 Teardown [video]”
> 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.
Cites bschwindHN · 2026-02 · on “15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram”
> 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]