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Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

goku99 wrote: post #47

cblconfederate wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

agree to this. They had a good going with windows 7. The freaking windows 10 photos app intermittently hangs forever when opening a simple image file. I was just using Videos and it crashed when opening settings. Skype is still a disaster years after swinching from skype classic. The abomination that replaced control panel is designed intentionally like a maze from which you cant get out. I dare you to find the bluet…

wait.... i am not the only one whose image viewer takes like 10s of seconds to show up! It's so horribly slow that i instead open browser and then drag the image onto browser. I beat default 100% of time!

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Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by xiphias2 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

rileyteige wrote: post #27

xiphias2 wrote: post #23

I'm using Windows 10 because I want to run modern programs, but I still don't see the usability of the operating system to be as good that it was with Windows 7. If I go to settings, or open the start menu, I have latencies measured in seconds, even though I have a fast gaming laptop. As a comparision on my iPad most of the settings windows have about 0.2s rendering latency (some shorter, some longer), but in reality…

just to counter... i'm on a desktop that's a few years old, i7. win10. start menu loads instantly, settings loads in maybe 1/4 of a second. YMMV?

Probably the icons for the Windows Store entries were already in the cache for you. Things work the second time, but the fact that it's unpredictable makes the experience less smooth than what it was before.

Also I have things like ,,Candy Crash Friends'' icon that's very bright, takes my focus away on what I want to do, and I don't know how to turn it off, as I don't find it in the settings (to tell you the truth, I haven't even played it, but I'm waiting for Cyberpunk 2077, so I don't want to try other games right now).

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by ck425 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

If anyone here subscribes to Stratechery I strongly recommend the interview sent out yesterday with Microsofts head of gaming. There's chat there about how gaming shifted internally in part due to how Nadella rethought gaming as it's own strategy and a key future component of Azure, rather than just a part of Windows strategy. He particularly highlights how gaming is a key differentiator vs the other top tech companies. Shows some seriously smart strategic thinking.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by tinyhouse » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

Yes, he did. One of the best tech CEOs. Got his MS in CS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Later got an MBA from Chicago but that's a BS degree for the resume. Shows you can succeed no matter where you start, you just need to work harder usually and not letting others to put you down.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by kwanbix » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

xiphias2 wrote: post #23

I'm using Windows 10 because I want to run modern programs, but I still don't see the usability of the operating system to be as good that it was with Windows 7. If I go to settings, or open the start menu, I have latencies measured in seconds, even though I have a fast gaming laptop. As a comparision on my iPad most of the settings windows have about 0.2s rendering latency (some shorter, some longer), but in reality…

I cannot disagree more. Yes, Windows 7 is more polished in some ways, for example the control panel vs the thing they have created now.

But the rest, I don't have any of the problems you describe. And I run Windows 10 on a ThinkPad P50, which is 5 years old.

Also, the start menu is reasonable, although I prefer the simplicity of XP.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by fireattack » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

cblconfederate wrote: post #33

xiphias2 wrote: post #23

I'm using Windows 10 because I want to run modern programs, but I still don't see the usability of the operating system to be as good that it was with Windows 7. If I go to settings, or open the start menu, I have latencies measured in seconds, even though I have a fast gaming laptop. As a comparision on my iPad most of the settings windows have about 0.2s rendering latency (some shorter, some longer), but in reality…

agree to this. They had a good going with windows 7. The freaking windows 10 photos app intermittently hangs forever when opening a simple image file. I was just using Videos and it crashed when opening settings. Skype is still a disaster years after swinching from skype classic. The abomination that replaced control panel is designed intentionally like a maze from which you cant get out. I dare you to find the bluet…

IIRC Photos used to also have a bug that if the folder have too many pictures, you simply can't go previous/next..

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by fsflover » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:24 PM UTC

cammil wrote: post #11

skummetmaelk wrote: post #4

Nadella turned Microsoft into a data mining operation just like the rest of the FAANG gang and the market rewarded him. Surveillance capitalism must be regulated out of existence.

Is this not a market forces cause rather than Nadella? It seems everyone is fighting to control data. Sometimes it seems to me that we forgot that this whole industry comes under the banner of information technology.

> It seems everyone is fighting to control data.

Not everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purism_(company).

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by mopsi » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

xiphias2 wrote: post #23

I'm using Windows 10 because I want to run modern programs, but I still don't see the usability of the operating system to be as good that it was with Windows 7. If I go to settings, or open the start menu, I have latencies measured in seconds, even though I have a fast gaming laptop. As a comparision on my iPad most of the settings windows have about 0.2s rendering latency (some shorter, some longer), but in reality…

I find it ironic that an operating system called Windows won't let me open Settings in multiple windows. It's perhaps the greatest illustration of how Microsoft has lost their way in UI design.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by habeebtc » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

bluedino wrote: post #3

What's the reason for Microsoft services/support going downhill so bad? I can remember in the 2000's, they had spectacular paid support on their stuff.

(thought better of this comment)

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

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Post by justanotheratom » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:27 PM UTC

pydry wrote: post #35

Dave Cutler doesn't get nearly enough credit for turning Microsoft around. I don't think it's a coincidence that he was at the helm for two of the most technologically advanced and successful product lines (NT 4.0 and azure).

and xbox.