If Xbox is so important, they need to open up its API and app store. It feels like a dinosaur relic from the last decade.
It's behind Google Play, Amazon and Apple App Stores, and even the Windows App Store.
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#22If 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.
Having the first user being local is pretty hidden if you do a normal install (straightforward if you know how, but it is very obscurely described in the UI).
But if you install when offline it's the default alternative :-)
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#23Funny how the wheel of time turns.
I grew up with Micro$oft, a dying Apple beset by clones, and an internet that very few people know about.
Now Apple is one of the most valuable companies on the planet, Microsoft needs a rallying cry, and everyone thinks they know about the internet.
One thing's for sure, haters back then and still haters now.
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#24I see they're moving in the direction of Amazon regarding company culture, 'First, we will obsess over our customers.'. I wonder if this is due to companies sharing so many employees over the years.
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#26After 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 mon…
There is a lot of corporate speak. That said, he is an insider that knows what needs to be done, and is willing to make changes. I hope that he's able to pull it off.
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#27If 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 usi…
Maybe that was the reason behind the boycott of Windows 8 by Chinese Government.
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#29That's the most windows phones I've ever seen in one picture.
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#30> First, we will obsess over our customers.
I bet that not every customer of MS wants the mobile-first and cloud-first experiences. In order to push forward, they have to slam down a lot of existing models and platforms, e.g., the Windows before 8 and Office before 365, and doing these does not feel painless to MS, IMHO. They must be facing difficult choices in the years to come.