Bold Ambition and Our Core
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Bold Ambition and Our Core
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#2I wanted to submit the original memo, but unfortunately it's a the same URL [1] that was used to announce Nadella's appointment as CEO, so already showed up in another HN story [2]
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#3After working many corporate jobs over the years, this kind of rhetoric seems trite and overused. "We are stream-lining our processes and going to empower our employees to change the world!!!!". So many corporations that fell behind the trends and are just trying to reinvent themselves to that they can get back on track use the same words. However, in this case, it seems different. Microsoft has over the past few months kinda proved that they mean it. Open sourcing .NET and other technologies, playing nice with many different startups like Xamarin to help empower and push them forward on their stack. It really does feel different and for the sake of the technology world, I hope they do. We need more than 2 giants competing in the consumer market, and we need people willing to dare to move the needle forward, pushing the bar everyday. If there is a company with the means and resources to do it, its Microsoft. I don't work there, but I hope an employee can shed some more light on the internal changes that are taking place.
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#4I wanted to submit the original memo, but unfortunately it's a the same URL [1] that was used to announce Nadella's appointment as CEO, so already showed up in another HN story [2] [1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7177388
If the content is different enough but the url is the same just tack on a parameter to the url. Ex: http://SomeUrlThatWasAlreadySubmittedBefore.com/?hn=1
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#5pro tip: skip the first 6 paragraphs and read his email To: All Employees
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#7If everything is cloud and mobile, I hope they don't forget people who want to user a PC without that. It would be horrible to be required to have a cloud account to login to my computer.
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#8If everything is cloud and mobile, I hope they don't forget people who want to user a PC without that. It would be horrible to be required to have a cloud account to login to my computer.
no worries, i'm sure you'll be able to pay extra in the future for that convenience :)
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#9If everything is cloud and mobile, I hope they don't forget people who want to user a PC without that. It would be horrible to be required to have a cloud account to login to my computer.
That's already more or less the case with Windows 8/8.1.
Although there are contrived ways around it, generally speaking you'll need a "Live" account to login and that also hooks up your "OneDrive" and so on.
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#10If everything is cloud and mobile, I hope they don't forget people who want to user a PC without that. It would be horrible to be required to have a cloud account to login to my computer.
It's not required, but Windows 8.1 pushes you very strongly to log into your Microsoft account, and to create one if you haven't already. If you don't, most of the built-in Metro (er, Modern) apps won't work, including some like Calendar which you'd think shouldn't need it.
Further, if/when you finally break down and sign into your MS account, you have to use it to sign into your computer from then on, instead of using the password you set when you created your local user account. So unfortunately, the scenario you described is pretty much already here for Windows users.