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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by hamburglar »

w-m wrote: post #39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JwNZBJ_wI Interesting that they chose a walk and talk kind of thing, in a completely vacant office. What where they hurrying towards that they couldn't take the time to sit down?

I don't recognize the building, but the layout is reminiscent of their Conference Center, with its very wide, open hallways and no personal offices. Every time I ever went in there when there wasn't a big event happening, it was vacant just like that. It wouldn't really have been any effort at all to reserve it for filming. [edit: as to why they'd want to show them wandering around in a vacant building, I have no idea other than pure aesthetics]

I was just disappointed he didn't hop on the vespa and putter away at the end.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by shanselman »

spiderPig wrote: post #408
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 ;)?

Things are pretty open now, but we're going to open things up as much as we can.

As for buying them, why mess up a good thing?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by mooreds »

encoderer wrote: post #292
mathattack wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Bing is a lost battle. The real question is what can they do on Azure, and can they move people to a cloud-based Office suite. On arrogance - this comes with size. The larger a company gets, the more internal stakeholders they have. What was once a simple, "Of course we'll change that" turns into "Who else is impacted to this change?" to "Let's only change what we need to, and not get distracted by everything…

Bing has 1/3 of search volume if you include Yahoo, which it serves. Hardly lost.

Here's some numbers--Google has > 85% worldwide market share as of Oct 2013:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-s...

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by KFaz »

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…

Would love to see Windows Phone open up for hobbyist devs. Love the Windows Phone experience out of the box, but having to jump through hoops to write apps for my own personal use pushed me to android.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by spiderPig »

shanselman wrote: post #412
spiderPig wrote: post #408

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)?

Things are pretty open now, but we're going to open things up as much as we can. As for buying them, why mess up a good thing?

Ah just so they have access to the vast resources and become 1st party libraries. Mono is not known in most of the linux world and Microsoft support would be a significant boost. Businesses would also be hesitant to support it adopt it unless Microsoft is backing the platform.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Moto7451 »

bad_user wrote: post #356
YZF wrote: post #273

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Really? The world of Google and Apple (Samsung and FOSS aren't even a player) is a world of closed computing platforms where people can't control their own devices and can't and don't code for them. More languages? I don't think so. How many languages can you use to write apps for your iPhone or Android device? Objective C and Java respectively and that's about it. With Google not only do you not control your apps/de…

Windows Phone 8 ... not open-source, doesn't have anything like CyanogenMod, cannot be forked, does not allow app installs from third-party sources, doesn't allow replacing Bing's search with anything else (and the available setting in IExplorer for setting the in-browser search provider doesn't work) and wifi tethering must be explicitly allowed by the mobile career (which is a PITA since my mobile career couldn't w…

Also add Delphi and C++ on iOS/Android/Win Phone platforms and Scala on Android

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/ios-developme...

http://scala-ide.org/docs/tutorials/androiddevelopment/index...

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Demiurge »

spiderPig wrote: post #415
shanselman wrote: post #412

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Things are pretty open now, but we're going to open things up as much as we can. As for buying them, why mess up a good thing?

Ah just so they have access to the vast resources and become 1st party libraries. Mono is not known in most of the linux world and Microsoft support would be a significant boost. Businesses would also be hesitant to support it adopt it unless Microsoft is backing the platform.

Microsoft supporting Mono would not be a good boost in the eyes of most Linux people, as far as I can tell. In fact, Miguel de Icaza connections to Microsoft have been cited as an argument against Mono.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by NamTaf »

dman wrote: post #371
AlexeyBrin wrote: post #198

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Sure you can! Right click on the console window bar (top) and look in Settings. You will need to increase the horizontal buffer size or something like that.

Why can I resize all other windows by dragging the bottom right but not cmd.exe? I also forgot to mention how slow text output is on cmd.exe when compared against terminals like xterm on linux. If the new CEO can improve the windows command line experience I for one would be immensely grateful.

Because cmd.exe is a fixed width based on the character count. You can drag the height down but not the width sideways. If you right click on the black C:\ icon in the top left and go to properties, the layout tab will let you set the character count width and in turn change that, or alternatively set the font size which will scale the window to suit the character count at the new font size.

You might have been facetious to prove a point but surprisingly few know you can change those settings there, and I like making my terminal oldschool-hacker-green :)

edit: Actually, I've no idea what I've done but now I can drag the window arbitrarily and it'll just show more characters. Maybe I set a font and now can do it? I don't know!

edit 2: I made it go to 160 characters, then set it back to 80, and now it'll let me drag it out to 160 but no more? This is so confusing Microsoft is on drugs

edit 3: Oh, ok. Screen buffer size sets the 'you can resize to this maximum' whereas screen size sets the 'you start at this size'. I'll stop making edits now.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Encosia »

hershel wrote: post #388
Encosia wrote: post #321

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I'd heard of this before, but never tried it myself. Out of curiosity, I just tried playing a game through OnLive, using my relatively high-end (for the US) business broadband connection. I chose Witcher 2 since it was featured on the OnLive home page. As the intro video streamed, I was impressed. It was smooth and the quality was good. After the intro video, it all fell apart. The round trip latency on the menu scre…

For low latency, That's the sort of problem google likes to have: hard technical problems that require a lot of capital(building plenty of gaming clouds physically close to users).Maybe onlive just didn't had enough money so your cloud is far from you. BTW: sony will be also offering it , so maybe the tech is ready ?

If Wikipedia's to be believed, OnLive has a datacenter here in Georgia with me, probably in metro Atlanta. This same machine I used to try OnLive has a 10-12ms ping to my Linode here in their Atlanta datacenter. It's not going to get much quicker than that over the WAN. If they can't give a decent experience to someone like me, I wouldn't want to see the average user's experience.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by encoderer »

mooreds wrote: post #413
encoderer wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bing has 1/3 of search volume if you include Yahoo, which it serves. Hardly lost.

Here's some numbers--Google has > 85% worldwide market share as of Oct 2013: http://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-s...

And Bing has 33% of domestic share.
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