Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)

I've seen a few things recently in this vein, that I should look at Microsoft with new eyes because it hasn't done anything bad lately, as if a few years makes up for three or four decades.

Even if I were to buy that, "We've been on our best behaviour lately" isn't really a great reason to invest time and money in a company's mediocre-at-best products.

Re: Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)

#5

Post by juststeve » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 11:33 PM UTC

yuhong wrote: post #3

I wrote a poorly written wishlist for Satya partly because of this post.

did he reply?

Re: Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)

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Post by yuhong » Wed, Jun 06, 2018, 12:00 AM UTC

juststeve wrote: post #5

yuhong wrote: post #3

I wrote a poorly written wishlist for Satya partly because of this post.

did he reply?

No, and I never asked.

Re: Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)

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Post by OnlyRepliesToBS » Wed, Jun 06, 2018, 12:32 AM UTC

Hahahaha "Throw counter-PR on the hate we're getting for shitting on our Skype, CodePlex, and Windows brands.."

But hey... they're different this time. Promise.

Re: Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)

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Post by fumigator » Wed, Jun 06, 2018, 1:17 AM UTC

"the Microsoft Anti-Trust thing .. for bundling a browser in the operating system that couldn't be uninstalled or easily replaced? Sure, no operating systems do that in 2014."

How do I totally uninstall Edge without breaking something else.

Re: Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)

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Post by Rjevski » Wed, Jun 06, 2018, 3:20 AM UTC

I don’t think many people are hating on Microsoft because of the bad they did a decade ago.

People are hating on Microsoft because of the shit they are doing now.

Windows 10 and Skype are prime examples, and that is still happening as we speak, as opposed to something that happened years ago.

Re: Microsoft Killed My Pappy (2014)

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Post by megaman22 » Wed, Jun 06, 2018, 3:32 AM UTC

I have an odd perspective, because the state of Maine landed some wild kickback-laden deal to supply high schoolers with ibooks in the 2000s.

I hated those machines. I think they were the very first iteration of OSX. They were locked down with annoying, if not very effective Bess proxy software. Nothing was compatible. Safari blew.

Using the old Win95 machine in the computer lab was refreshing. I had the freedom of fucking around with QBasic and then VB6 was envigorating. Then some probably bootleg copies of VC++6 for a year. Completely opened my eyes to all the cool, low-level, hacky shit you could do on windows.

I'm sure it helped that this was pre-steam, where the pirate pc gaming system was a thing. So learning to fix busted windows systems was an everyday thing. Mac... eh, i had one game that had a macos9 version I could get to run (Lords of the Realm 1, i think...)