Microsoft’s Very Good Day
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Microsoft’s Very Good Day
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#2It definitely feels like Microsoft is on the right track with Nadella in charge.
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#3It definitely feels like Microsoft is on the right track with Nadella in charge.
I definitely agree, and get the feeling that the company culture now is more about building the right innovation for users than spinning the same products for more revenue.
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#4It definitely feels like Microsoft is on the right track with Nadella in charge.
I believe so as well. They've switched focus and are going in the right direction now.
A few years ago I actually advised everyone to not use Microsoft's products. Every single product was subpar (Windows, Windows Phone, their laptops etc). Today, I'm happy to advise Surface Pro, Windows Phone, etc to anyone. They're striving more for innovation (e.g. Surface Pro, Surface Book), which is cool and will bring them success.
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#5It definitely feels like Microsoft is on the right track with Nadella in charge.
Yeah, with the likes of .Net Core it seems very much like Microsoft are on the right track. But you'll still see plenty of, what I call, "Microsoft decisions" that just make things into more hassle or expense than it should be purely for the pursuit of profit. One example is if you want to migrate from Linux to Windows 10 on a few computers you're legally required to buy a Windows 10 license for each machine you run. So for people with a few machines that might be 3 licenses you have to pay for - it's just crazy.
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#6It's amazing to think that such a massive behemoth could change direction in so little time.
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#7Their partnership with Google over Typescript and the general openness that they are pushing is fantastic. I really feel they are giving a lot to the developer community.
The Surface Book is an exceptional piece of kit. It is telling that the top end book (16GB/512SSD) was the only one at one point to be sold-out on pre-order. None of the other options include 16GB of ram and I think this is a shame, but you cannot fault what they have done here.
Kudos. Microsoft now gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
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#8I'm really surprised it didn't touch on the oncoming xplat-ness of .net in this round up. I feel like this is huge considering how much it connects the technology. To boot, c# is a top 10 language on github even though it's primarily a single platform language (https://github.com/blog/2047-language-trends-on-github)
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#9It definitely feels like Microsoft is on the right track with Nadella in charge.
Yeah, with the likes of .Net Core it seems very much like Microsoft are on the right track. But you'll still see plenty of, what I call, "Microsoft decisions" that just make things into more hassle or expense than it should be purely for the pursuit of profit. One example is if you want to migrate from Linux to Windows 10 on a few computers you're legally required to buy a Windows 10 license for each machine you run.…
"You have to pay for our software to run it on a machine" is possibly the least crazy example you could have chosen. There's far more strangeness in Microsoft licensing: Terminal Server, the whole business of CALs, the vast number of SKUs with ambiguous names, VM licensing, and so on.
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#10It's amazing to think that such a massive behemoth could change direction in so little time.
This change has actually been brewing for a long time. I was at a summit they held for Open Source project leaders back in 2008, and we got to sit down with the dev teams for IIS, SQL Server, and some of their web dev tools. They were extremely open, helpful, and just wanted to collaborate on cool stuff.
There were only a few pockets of "New Microsoft" back then, but they were there if you looked, and they were working their asses off to change the culture. Clearly their work has paid off.