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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by ConceptJunkie »

leobelle wrote: post #30
tomswartz07 wrote: post #25

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I find it particularly interesting that they highlighted his work with *Nix systems in his early career. I don't want to draw any conclusions, but I have a good feeling about that.

Man, a fully functional supported bash-like terminal on Windows would be heaven sent.

I use TCC from these guys (jpsoft.com). It used to be called 4NT and before that 4DOS. Basically it's a superset of cmd.exe (a super-dooper-set these days) and lets you do pretty much anything you can do with shells like bash.

If you're from a Unix background, you're probably better off running bash from Cygwin, but if you're a Windows guy, TCC is a great shell.

It's the first thing I install on a Windows machine.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

middleclick wrote: post #75
CurtHagenlocher wrote: post #72

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Racist comments about CEOs of Indian origin have no place on Hacker News.

I don't think the OP implied it had anything to do with race. I maybe wrong.

Probably related to who is or was CEO of Adobe Moto. Anyways, correlation is not causation, or in this case, not even meaningful. It was a racist statement.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Udo »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #77
Udo wrote: post #58

There's something deeply symbolic about watching those enthusiastic people doing their Sorkin walks for the camera through the vast and completely empty halls of the Microsoft offices (or is it a museum, I can't tell). By the numbers, Microsoft is still incredibly relevant. At the same time, I can't even remember when I last used any MS product. It's not a boycott, there are simply no points where their stuff interse…

You probably use services running on Microsoft-based platforms all the time if you e.g. have a bank account, use commercial airports, have insurance of any form, etc. Those big numbers you're waving away represent real, significant businesses.

Even if you assume I didn't know that (which is somewhat audacious of you), this sounds exactly like IBM. Which was my point, and I'm not waving anything away. I guess there's nothing wrong with being another IBM per se, on the other hand they wouldn't have had to change CEOs if they were all that satisfied with their general trajectory.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by raverbashing »

moron4hire wrote: post #64
skywhopper wrote: post #40

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I hope that this is just doublespeak to reassure people who think Gates is important to Microsoft's future success. Personally, I think both Microsoft and the world would be better off if Gates stepped away completely and focussed all of his efforts on the Gates Foundation's work.

I understood the Foundation's primary problem to be figuring out how to efficiently spend all of their money they are required to spend every year without accidentally funding Al Qaeda. Does Gates have to be around for that?

I don't know, but unfortunately I am very skeptical of NGOs, and charities

It looks like 80% of the money goes for "management" and the rest goes to the actual people in need. Not to mention the contracted "fundraisers" that are paid poorly. (I have nothing against the fundraisers per se, they're usually college kids trying to make some money)

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by rbanffy »

middleclick wrote: post #75
CurtHagenlocher wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Racist comments about CEOs of Indian origin have no place on Hacker News.

I don't think the OP implied it had anything to do with race. I maybe wrong.

Sanjay Jha was Motorola's CEO until the Motorola Mobility division was acquired by Google. Shantanu Narayen is Adobe's CEO.

I see a clear pattern here.

I'm open to other possible interpretations.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by ryanjshaw »

Udo wrote: post #84
ryanjshaw wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably use services running on Microsoft-based platforms all the time if you e.g. have a bank account, use commercial airports, have insurance of any form, etc. Those big numbers you're waving away represent real, significant businesses.

Even if you assume I didn't know that (which is somewhat audacious of you), this sounds exactly like IBM. Which was my point, and I'm not waving anything away. I guess there's nothing wrong with being another IBM per se, on the other hand they wouldn't have had to change CEOs if they were all that satisfied with their general trajectory.

I'm not assuming anything, I'm reading what you wrote:

> there are simply no points where their stuff intersects with my life.

As to your other point: Microsoft is big. A "general trajectory" is very vague at their scale. Failure in one area (mobile, tablet) does not imply failure in another (enterprise), or indeed overall. I don't see what's wrong with trying to find a CEO who can turnaround that failure, and don't think it's really indicative of anything other than a missed opportunity.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by ebbv »

leobelle wrote: post #20
skrebbel wrote: post #13

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> As a side note it is also exciting to see some more diversity in the top ranks of one of our biggest technology companies. Because true diversity is people who look different!

I'm not sure what you mean by your reply.

It means he's one of those white racists who doesn't think he's racist.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by LaGrange »

wil421 wrote: post #70
Udo wrote: post #58

There's something deeply symbolic about watching those enthusiastic people doing their Sorkin walks for the camera through the vast and completely empty halls of the Microsoft offices (or is it a museum, I can't tell). By the numbers, Microsoft is still incredibly relevant. At the same time, I can't even remember when I last used any MS product. It's not a boycott, there are simply no points where their stuff interse…

You must not work in the corporate world. Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise: email, instant messaging (lync), excel, word, visio, project, even sharepoint and those are just the pieces you can see not to mention whats going in the backend. Being one of the only Mac users in my office I constantly have to find work arounds for everything. Sadly they will be relevant for a long time we have almost 30,000 p…

I work in the corporate world. Only thing I use a Microsoft product for is running games. I do have Excel installed on my Mac, but haven’t touched it in ages (though this is mostly because things I deal with polarized themselves between „I can just do it in Numbers” and „where’s my Matlab”).

EDIT: I don’t mean it’s irrelevant, I just mean your assumption wasn’t really legitimate. There’s now many big companies that only use Microsoft in limited ways, and probably even some that don’t use the software at all.

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