Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
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#2Use my bookmarklet to hide that horrible image of Balmer sticking his tongue out
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Re: Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
#3Interesting article, IBM seems the same, Sales and everything else.
Maybe this is a relic of old apex predators that are past their age.
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#4Maybe, but I'm worried they've given up on consumer devices, and decided to stick to the enterprise cash cow, in the Oracle-lesser-evil model.
Entirely egotistical of me, I came from an iPhone to a Lumia and I'm not too enthusiastic about going back (although I also use iPads, and like them). I find Android a bit of a swamp, and having only iOS as an alternative is sad.
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#5I've always said sales (and marketing) was Microsoft's biggest problem. The are finally starting to be cool again as the engineers take over.
The silo between Windows and development (Azure, .net etc) needs to come down fully to fix Sinofsky's mess too.
We're still left with a desktop OS UI with huge animated icons designed for a phone even though they've now given up on the phone market anyway. They gave up too easily just as Windows phone was starting to overcome that screw up and become popular with some non techy users as it really is the most user friendly.
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#6I was a Windows user for a long time.
5 years ago I switched to OS X, because I think it's closer to the deployment environment I use as a dev.
However what OS X did ( when they killed the old one - MacOS 9 and rewrote the whole thing on UNIX based kernel ) was the single greatest move, which I think pays off even these days.
This is what I hope should happen with Windows. They should decide on POSIX kernel and completely rewrite most of it. This will put Windows as an option for me.
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#7I was a Windows user for a long time. 5 years ago I switched to OS X, because I think it's closer to the deployment environment I use as a dev. However what OS X did ( when they killed the old one - MacOS 9 and rewrote the whole thing on UNIX based kernel ) was the single greatest move, which I think pays off even these days. This is what I hope should happen with Windows. They should decide on POSIX kernel and compl…
Suggesting a rewrite of something as important as the NT kernel is ignorant at best.
I think Bash on Windows is a great compromise.
Re: Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
#8Use my bookmarklet to hide that horrible image of Balmer sticking his tongue out javascript:(function (){var x = document.getElementsByTagName("img");for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++){x[i].setAttribute("src","");}}());
Seriously, this should almost have a NSFW warning for that image alone. Brrr.
Re: Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
#9I was a Windows user for a long time. 5 years ago I switched to OS X, because I think it's closer to the deployment environment I use as a dev. However what OS X did ( when they killed the old one - MacOS 9 and rewrote the whole thing on UNIX based kernel ) was the single greatest move, which I think pays off even these days. This is what I hope should happen with Windows. They should decide on POSIX kernel and compl…
Suggesting a rewrite of something as important as the NT kernel is ignorant at best. I think Bash on Windows is a great compromise.
Why is the NT kernel so important? It hasn't touched my life much in about eight years, private or professional. Nokia thought Symbian was very important too.
Re: Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
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