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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by nkerkin »

dman wrote: post #121
ygra wrote: post #34

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I'd take PowerShell over bash any day. If you mean the console window, that's completely independent of the applicating running inside both on Unix-likes and Windows and admittedly there are things to improve. However, there are ConEmu, Console2 and others which by now work really, really well.

Why are all of them column based? You cant arbitrarily resize a console window in 2014?

You can with ConEmu, just drag or snap to any size you want and subsequent commands will fill any available horizontal space

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by tanzam75 »

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #386
tanzam75 wrote: post #383

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> I tried to buy one not long ago and was sad that they had been discontinued. I don't know if this is still the case today (or even relevant in the world of smartphones) but I could not for the life of me find an MP3 player with an FM tuner in it. But the Zune had one, did it not? A Nokia Lumia 520 is dirt-cheap and has an FM tuner. All you have to do is to pretend that it isn't also a phone.

Does it function poorly as a phone?

No, it functions fine as a phone.

You said you were looking for an MP3 player with FM radio, and couldn't find one. I just meant that you could've found what you needed by expanding your search to include phones.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by BlackDeath3 »

tanzam75 wrote: post #402
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #386

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Does it function poorly as a phone?

No, it functions fine as a phone. You said you were looking for an MP3 player with FM radio, and couldn't find one. I just meant that you could've found what you needed by expanding your search to include phones.

I have considered phones, hence the smartphone comment above in my post. Before this time last year, I'd never owned a smartphone before, and hence they weren't on my radar too much when I was looking for a device that included an FM tuner.

Either way, thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by deeviant »

zmmmmm wrote: post #364
adamt wrote: post #160

I'd never thought I'd say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again. Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry. Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be i…

> I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again It's extremely dangerous to think if Microsoft as weak. They have enormous profits and revenue - far, far bigger than Google, for example - that are secure far into the future. They are willing to plow this money for an almost indefinite amount of time into any product to brute force it to success (see Xbox) and they are willing stoop lower and employ underhand tacti…

Well, Google does have a higher market cap by some 21%, so obviously the market values Google more.

History is littered with corporate walking corpses that owned markets at times that are are coasting or dead. Just look at how long AOL raked in billions after they long since ceased to be relevant to anything at all. I am not saying that MS is this, but they are feared to become one if they don't find a way to become much more relevant to how many people see the future going.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by meepmorp »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #78
Varcht wrote: post #43

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This is not always the case, for instance I've worked with a great guy from China, after almost a year I still have a hard time understanding him and often have to ask him to repeat himself. It makes working collaborating difficult face to face.

My Argentinian TA once said "if I have an accent and you have an accent, we might have a problem." That said, all my coworkers are Chinese (many have never been to the states or outside of china) and I don't have a problem with anyone's accent (they can barely understand my Chinese though).

> they can barely understand my Chinese though

Out of curiosity, has anyone ever articulated why your Chinese is hard to understand? Is it tone or phonemes?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by shanselman »

dave1619 wrote: post #399
shanselman wrote: post #398

It's worth noting that under Satya (in my org, Cloud and Enterprise) we open sourced ASP.NET, use 50+ OSS libraries in Visual Studio, have all the Azure cloud SDKs on GitHub, and on and on. We made Portable Libraries happen and now share code between iOS, Android, and Windows. This is not your grandfather's MSFT, and now the dude who helped us (Azure) change things in a fundamentally non-MSFT and totally awesome way…

It's great to hear from somebody who worked in Satya's division at Microsoft. Are people at Microsoft generally upbeat about Satya's CEO appointment?

Totally. He's super nice, wicked smart, very approachable, listens more than he talks. He has the Enterprise and Tech chops.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by BlackDeath3 »

shanselman wrote: post #398

It's worth noting that under Satya (in my org, Cloud and Enterprise) we open sourced ASP.NET, use 50+ OSS libraries in Visual Studio, have all the Azure cloud SDKs on GitHub, and on and on. We made Portable Libraries happen and now share code between iOS, Android, and Windows. This is not your grandfather's MSFT, and now the dude who helped us (Azure) change things in a fundamentally non-MSFT and totally awesome way…

Seems like it may be an interesting place to work in the coming years!

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Post by spiderPig »

shanselman wrote: post #398

It's worth noting that under Satya (in my org, Cloud and Enterprise) we open sourced ASP.NET, use 50+ OSS libraries in Visual Studio, have all the Azure cloud SDKs on GitHub, and on and on. We made Portable Libraries happen and now share code between iOS, Android, and Windows. This is not your grandfather's MSFT, and now the dude who helped us (Azure) change things in a fundamentally non-MSFT and totally awesome way…

And I'm totally stoked to learn that Scott Guthrie has been promoted to take Satya's place. Both of you guys are awesome! Now when are you going to open up C#, CLR and buy Xamarin ;)?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by aragot »

gress wrote: post #347
xmonkee wrote: post #238

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>It's not Microsoft that was/is bad, it's having any single entity have too much power. I can't come to the same conclusion. Just look at how much innovation has happened to areas that Microsoft dominated as opposed to those dominated by Google. Google basically sets fire to whatever it gets into. Look at how much they've enriched the developer space in those areas. Everything Microsoft is still stuck in the early 20…

Hang on - how has google enriched the developer space?

Guava is the main piece I think about. GWT? Guice? What else?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by hamburglar »

jamhan wrote: post #391

I wish Microsoft would stop using language like "he saw how clearly Microsoft empowers people to do magical things". It makes it sound like Microsoft people are still off in la-la land, continuing to create interfaces like Metro for the desktop. Get Microsoft back to being a great software engineering, customer-focused and reliable company that enables people to be more effective in their jobs and help make those peo…

I totally agree with this. Microsoft would be really smart to cure themselves of all the delusional "we've got the greatest and most innovative people" crap. Sure, sure, pat yourselves on the back for your accomplishments and be proud when you do things well, but don't act like it's because you've somehow managed to hire the Chosen Devs. That kind of thinking just leads to never being self-critical.
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