Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
money.cnn.com
Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
1–10 of 67 posts
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#2PC gaming just shook a little. I have decades old games that still work because Microsoft still supports Windows. uTorrent entirely exists because of Microsoft's commitment to break-your-back-backwards-compatability in Windows. DirectX is 25+ years of of PC gaming's history.
That could disappear like a console generation. That's a little disconcerting.
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#3for me to dev solely on windows, it needs:
1) coreutils + some other nix commands
2) iTerm2 equivalent(ConEmu/Cmder do not compare)
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#4Makes sense to me. They are ahead of AWS around K8S support. That kind of thing, if they do it in multiple areas, will erode Amazon's current lead. Azure is also noteably less expensive than AWS. They are already eating into Bezos' market share.
Also the whole office 365 plan gets F500 companies already tied into Azure. It's sort of like the drug dealer's "first one's free" tactic. They will, for example, spend money on direct connect network for O365, which makes Azure immediately more attractive. And their Active Directory info is necessarily already federated to Azure.
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#5PC gaming just shook a little. I have decades old games that still work because Microsoft still supports Windows. uTorrent entirely exists because of Microsoft's commitment to break-your-back-backwards-compatability in Windows. DirectX is 25+ years of of PC gaming's history. That could disappear like a console generation. That's a little disconcerting.
I'm not clear on why uTorrent depends on extreme backwards compatibility. Isn't that a currently updated product?
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#6To be honest it is not a bad thing. The new features in Windows have been rather user hostile and regressions in term of usability and capabilities. I’d be happy with them maintaining the security and adding features as required by advances in hardware, but not treating the OS as a playground for radical creativity and monetisation.
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#7Note that this article may have a pre-roll ad with audio that plays automatically.
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#8for me to dev solely on windows, it needs: 1) coreutils + some other nix commands 2) iTerm2 equivalent(ConEmu/Cmder do not compare)
They already have #1 in the form of WSL.
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#9Kind of frustrating to hear that the largest OS by marketshare for desktop PCs (82.68%) is going to be even less supported than it is currently. Doesn't seem like thats going to be good news for security on the windows platform.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Re: Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
#10To be honest it is not a bad thing. The new features in Windows have been rather user hostile and regressions in term of usability and capabilities. I’d be happy with them maintaining the security and adding features as required by advances in hardware, but not treating the OS as a playground for radical creativity and monetisation.
Right. It makes sense because more and more over time, the user's "apps" are in the browser. The OS is arguably more the browser and less the actual OS.
My wife, for example, plays games on Facebook, uses Gmail, and surfs a few websites she likes. That's why Chromebooks are so popular.
Windows is competing perhaps more with the web (and soon, WASM) than say MacOS.