azure took over, its the biggest pot hole in history. crazyie
Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
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Re: Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
#12Windows may have looked like something to squeeze until the last drop, but customers are clearly voting with their feet. And Microsoft knows it. Plus the realization that if Windows falls, Microsoft falls has been haunting them lately. I mean, Windows has effectively four different UIs in it, al from different eras, from Win95, to Vista to Windows Mobile to Windows 11. Any "normal" company would've been lambasted for…
I don't see how Microsoft buying out Linux Mint would change anything. Linux Mint is just a configuration skin on top of Ubuntu/Debian and is fully open source. If Microsoft bought out the debeloper someone else can just take the code that exists currently and create "Linux Hibiscus" and people can just swap over by changing one repo config file.
Re: Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
#13Azure's a massive pothole, the biggest waste of time and money, there's five options available.
1 - it's in preview or private preview and sits there for years.
2 - half the platform is poorly stitched together and one blip away from weeks or months of failure.
3 - Management don't care or have any understanding, if you can get the right information to the outsourced support they still won't have any idea (sorry its out of our scope).
4 - ai will fix it.
5 - pay us more money for nothing, we will pull the rug from under your feet soon.
I am amazed they are still in business.
Re: Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
#14Windows may have looked like something to squeeze until the last drop, but customers are clearly voting with their feet. And Microsoft knows it. Plus the realization that if Windows falls, Microsoft falls has been haunting them lately. I mean, Windows has effectively four different UIs in it, al from different eras, from Win95, to Vista to Windows Mobile to Windows 11. Any "normal" company would've been lambasted for…
I don't see how Microsoft buying out Linux Mint would change anything. Linux Mint is just a configuration skin on top of Ubuntu/Debian and is fully open source. If Microsoft bought out the debeloper someone else can just take the code that exists currently and create "Linux Hibiscus" and people can just swap over by changing one repo config file.
General turmoil in an important project like Linux Mint will work to Microsoft's advantage. It will usually lead to developers and users leaving preventing Linux Mint from becoming a desktop Linux rallying point.
Re: Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
#15Azure's a massive pothole, the biggest waste of time and money, there's five options available. 1 - it's in preview or private preview and sits there for years. 2 - half the platform is poorly stitched together and one blip away from weeks or months of failure. 3 - Management don't care or have any understanding, if you can get the right information to the outsourced support they still won't have any idea (sorry its…
wish.com / temu.com version of a cloud service.
Re: Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
#16I have to disagree with the author in one key detail: IMHO Windows wasn't neglected, it was actively made worse over the last decade(s)...
At some point I guess things became "good enough". The leap to Windows 95 was huge. The leap to Windows 2000 was huge. Leaps in hardware was huge as well around at that time. It's many years ago I felt things started to plateau. When was the last time you were excited about a new processor? Or a bigger hard drive? If Microsoft makes their money from OEMs, and OEMs want to sell new hardware, I guess Windows needs to d…
While Win7 wasnt huge, it was one of the best releases IMHO
Re: Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
#17I have to disagree with the author in one key detail: IMHO Windows wasn't neglected, it was actively made worse over the last decade(s)...
I believe they've come to realize they've gone too far this time. Simply forcing people to buy a new PC simply to kick up Microsoft's quarterly sales numbers has enraged customers, many of whom refuse to throw out their perfectly good hardware. Many are installing Linux Mint on their machines instead. Despite newer security measures mandated in Windows 11 computers keep getting pwned by cyber-criminals and miscreants…
> Despite newer security measures mandated in Windows 11 computers keep getting pwned by cyber-criminals
Those are "OS security measures" used to protect the OS from the user. User data is not protected at all. Google pioneered the fact that an app can access all your data and sent over the internet, with the only "security" being: "Do you want to allow this app access to all your files ? "
Re: Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
At some point I guess things became "good enough". The leap to Windows 95 was huge. The leap to Windows 2000 was huge. Leaps in hardware was huge as well around at that time. It's many years ago I felt things started to plateau. When was the last time you were excited about a new processor? Or a bigger hard drive? If Microsoft makes their money from OEMs, and OEMs want to sell new hardware, I guess Windows needs to d…
While Win7 wasnt huge, it was one of the best releases IMHO
Yeah, it was better. Windows 8 and 8.1 was a disappointment with its "metro style".