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Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by Razengan »

sn_master wrote: post #94
galangalalgol wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These days if a company isn't growing faster than the population its garbage. It isn't enough to have a consistent value proposition that some X% of the population will spend on. This isn't a sustainable viewpoint so we pop the bubble periodically and start again. MS' os is better than it ever was, but its competitors more than caught up. They still define the data formats of business to some extent with office. And…

> its competitors more than caught up Not in the PC market that's for sure. I tried Mac and Linux few times for work and I always found Windows to be far better, at least as a desktop/laptop OS.

I jumped the Windows ship 10 years ago and every time I check back in on it I’m still glad I left.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by auslegung »

rizpanjwani wrote: post #323
scrollaway wrote: post #314

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People aren't allowed to change? Improve? What shitty things did you do 25 years ago you're willing to let me judge current you on?

People can and do change and improve, but the point is that it's quite a luxury when you make billions breaking laws and then use those billions to create a perception that you are now somehow this wholesome person.

But that's not the point. The point cbozeman made was Gates was not good 25 years ago and cbozeman does not believe that Gates has changed, but instead "he's trying to buy a legacy so he can overwrite the shit one he had when he was at the helm of Microsoft." cbozeman's point is not "it's quite a luxury when you make billions breaking laws and then use those billions to create a perception that you are now somehow this wholesome person". scrollaway's point is that people can change.

My point is, it's quite easy to make claims without proof. I know next to nothing about "new" Gates or "ruthless son of a bitch" Gates. Your claim that Gates has not changed needs some sort of evidence to be taken seriously.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by Razengan »

sn_master wrote: post #144
galangalalgol wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends so much on which native tools you use. Which is good and bad. Good that all three OS are good enough not to be the deciding issue, and bad that we haven't really solved portable native software well.

I find the PC hardware to be better too. Even dirt cheap PC laptops have touch screens with high quality pens included and are very easy to upgrade their RAM to 32/64 GB from Amazon.

I’ve yet to try any PC laptop that matches the Mac battery life and trackpad, or has a good fit-and-finish without copying the MacBook look anyway.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by mssundaram »

aksss wrote: post #259
mssundaram wrote: post #249

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Your comment made me realize that English speakers often render Volks in Volkswagen as Volts

Never heard that rendering in my life, fwiw.

Thanks for your data point. Over here I just took a random sample around the room and came across many instances.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by emrah »

atdrummond wrote: post #306

Oh wow... you have just given me some sense of comfort after feeling like a moron for over two decades. When I was growing up, my dad had visited Seattle and came back from the trip with a box of Microsoft Coffee. He claimed to have gotten it from a store called Egg-Head’s Software or Egghead Computing or something like that. (EDIT: Upon reading the full article it seems to have been Egghead Software.) I took it to m…

Why on earth would you be laughed out of the room for this. Sounds like your friends were a piece of work.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by bitmapbrother »

dang wrote: post #293
robbrown451 wrote: post #269

"There’s the KOMO News footage, which some of us still have on a dusty VHS tape. There are a handful of print articles from tech magazines at the time. And one of us has the audio recording of the radio coverage." It would be cool if there were some kind of technology that would allow them to share those things, like with people who can't actually be there in person.

" Don't be snarky. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You really are a low life piece of garbage. Praying that you get what's coming to you.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by dbuder »

junon wrote: post #255
rchaud wrote: post #247

For all the "You couldn't do this in 2021 without...." commenters, have a gander at what Deliveroo did in France for April 1. 'Prank' confirmation orders for 450 EUR worth of delivery sent to thousands of customers. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56617049

How absolutely touched do you have to be to think this is a good prank for a company whose business model is processing orders for people who are tight on cash in the middle of a pandemic? Good christ.

Just cashed in/out on an IPO touched. From the article: But few customers were amused. One of them said he had "almost had a stroke" Even if you are savvy enough to know that you won't have to pay, the stress of having to deal with a faceless corporate to correct your account is very real. How many cumulative years have they wiped off their customers' lives with this rubbish prank. There should be a huge fine, multiples of 450*number of customers exposed.
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