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Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by jotato »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #107
DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if Microsoft's leadership is being honest or not these days. But they're also far from transparent, and definitely working against my interests: (1) AFAIK, Microsoft continues to assert patents against Linux without giving the broader community enough information to resolve the supposed violations. (I'm not positive about this one.) (2) AFAIK, Microsoft continues to apply for more software patents, witho…

In case you hadn't noticed, "Embrace, extend and extinguish" is from 1995, 21 years ago.

> In case you hadn't noticed, "Embrace, extend and extinguish" is from 1995, 21 years ago.

You jut made me feel old :(

Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by cmdrfred »

hashhar wrote: post #162
cmdrfred wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lets say their implementations are marginally better. * runs sandboxed apps from a web store - Android(2008), IOS(2007) * as well as traditional Windows apps - Only Windows obviously * built in AI assistant - Apple(2011) * excellent pen operation - Wacom(1992) * built in accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer - Every flagship phone since 2005 * cloud integration with OneDrive, Office programs, email etc with the…

It's really amazing how the list you created includes different products for each bullet but Microsoft (or M$ if you prefer) combined all of them into a single product which actually functions.

So if Apple threw a stylus and a word processor on the iPhone they would be innovators too?

Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by scholia »

tonyplee wrote: post #168
yummyfajitas wrote: post #144

I recently bought a Lenovo sporting Windows 10 and decided to give it a fair try. I've been using Windows exclusively on my personal laptop for about 2 months and so far it's a good experience. This is after 16 years of running linux (or briefly a mac) on the desktop. The window manager is tolerable (not as good as Xmonad, but equivalent to Unity). Windows subsystem for linux is letting me get my work done with no pr…

I also got a new win10 HP laptop and new gaming win10 desktop recently, but has different experiences. I absolutely hate the constant force update/reboot from Win10 and the huge amount background / network activities/connections. After most of the win10 background networks connections are blocked and force update/reboot is disabled with Windows firewall, the system are usable now. I tried and found the new Linux subs…

> constant force update/reboot from Win10

Really? How often? I have "active hours" set and I rarely get more than one reboot per month. Same with network connections, and what they're doing. Some recorded facts would be more interesting than your impressions...

Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by widowlark »

chmln wrote: post #163
yummyfajitas wrote: post #144

I recently bought a Lenovo sporting Windows 10 and decided to give it a fair try. I've been using Windows exclusively on my personal laptop for about 2 months and so far it's a good experience. This is after 16 years of running linux (or briefly a mac) on the desktop. The window manager is tolerable (not as good as Xmonad, but equivalent to Unity). Windows subsystem for linux is letting me get my work done with no pr…

My experience has been the complete opposite. I've got a Lenovo Y50 running Win10. With a HiDPI display, it is pretty much unusable. While OS elements scale rather well, most of the software doesn't, even using the "DPI fix." [1] There are also ads on lock screen. [2] The "terminal", PowerShell, is slow to launch, path completions are crawling. The subsystem for linux is great, and certainly a move in the right direc…

>ads on the lock screen

You understand that you approved these ads when you set up windows initially, and that they can be removed with the flick of a switch in the lock screen settings?

Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by Pxtl »

chmln wrote: post #163
yummyfajitas wrote: post #144

I recently bought a Lenovo sporting Windows 10 and decided to give it a fair try. I've been using Windows exclusively on my personal laptop for about 2 months and so far it's a good experience. This is after 16 years of running linux (or briefly a mac) on the desktop. The window manager is tolerable (not as good as Xmonad, but equivalent to Unity). Windows subsystem for linux is letting me get my work done with no pr…

My experience has been the complete opposite. I've got a Lenovo Y50 running Win10. With a HiDPI display, it is pretty much unusable. While OS elements scale rather well, most of the software doesn't, even using the "DPI fix." [1] There are also ads on lock screen. [2] The "terminal", PowerShell, is slow to launch, path completions are crawling. The subsystem for linux is great, and certainly a move in the right direc…

Yeah, I've noticed that HiDPI support is basically a roll of the dice in 3rd-party Windows software.

Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by [deleted] »

Pigo wrote: post #137
marricks wrote: post #15

I was going to rag on this article for touting the the same non-specific garbage we've seen the past couple days like, "more mac users switching to surface than ever!" without any hard numbers, did is go from 20 to 25? But this article is actually pretty interesting. It focuses on how Satya Nadella has respected the leaders of Companies he's bought out and invited them to key meetings. Using their insight not only fo…

As a developer there's been so many times that I've gotten tired of MS solutions, and get excited about new emerging platforms elsewhere. Then I smirk when MS incorporates that new platform's ideology. Then I'm pleasantly surprised when it turns out to be cool, and often surpassing the original. I've heard some devs claim they cherry pick from other people's work, and others that they work hard to remain progressive…

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Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by KirinDave »

widowlark wrote: post #175
chmln wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience has been the complete opposite. I've got a Lenovo Y50 running Win10. With a HiDPI display, it is pretty much unusable. While OS elements scale rather well, most of the software doesn't, even using the "DPI fix." [1] There are also ads on lock screen. [2] The "terminal", PowerShell, is slow to launch, path completions are crawling. The subsystem for linux is great, and certainly a move in the right direc…

>ads on the lock screen You understand that you approved these ads when you set up windows initially, and that they can be removed with the flick of a switch in the lock screen settings?

They aren't even the default now, right?

Re: Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

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Post by Pxtl »

dispose13432 wrote: post #154
yummyfajitas wrote: post #144

I recently bought a Lenovo sporting Windows 10 and decided to give it a fair try. I've been using Windows exclusively on my personal laptop for about 2 months and so far it's a good experience. This is after 16 years of running linux (or briefly a mac) on the desktop. The window manager is tolerable (not as good as Xmonad, but equivalent to Unity). Windows subsystem for linux is letting me get my work done with no pr…

>Windows subsystem for linux is letting me get my work done with no problems While it's not bad, they blew the terminal completely!! Why couldn't they at least use something like cygwin's terminal? You can't delete text properly.

Yeah, the Windows terminal is an albatross since time immemorial. The problem was that the last attempt to rewrite it got vicious scope-creep and we ended up with powershell instead of just a non-stupid terminal.
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