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The Twitter screengrab is only showing part of the PDF. Be sure to click the link in the tweet for the full email chain.
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Bill was doing a fantastic job here, but it is a bit too sad to see how most of the executives in the mail show much less concern for the company's and customer's goals, and more concerns on who should own the problem. I think this is a bit too common in any corporate environment.
[OP - I posted the tweet] If you liked this, you might like my collection of business memos here. https://sriramk.com/memos I remember this particular memo very well as I was at Microsoft at the time and it felt so unfair to see the reaction to what you expect any good CEO to do.
Can you provide an alternate link to the PDF that works worldwide? Some people are getting a 451 error.
The way Bill Gates writes in that e-mail doesn't seem as elegant as his published writings. And he calls it the "Add or remove programs place", what a non-techie way to describe it.
Recently I installed specific parts of MSVC, since I'm using SFML and for now they only deliver binaries for 2017. After all I might not have needed to use 2017 or a particular SDK, since there seem to be ABI compatibility now, but I discovered that too late. So I used this vs intaller, and I discovered that the vs dev prompt did not set appropriate folder to use cl.exe and lib.exe because it might only do it for the…
Good times. I remember when this was part of the court case. Sounds like what we need is for Tim Cook to try to use iOS 13 and lose access to one of his favorite apps by upgrading to Catalina, and then to get a crumb or something into his keyboard.
I'd love for him to use a Mac with two monitors and wrestle with his dock constantly switching from one to the other with no way to lock the dock and keep sane window setups.
I’ve never had this issue? What is your setup? I always thought it was funny that in a Mac you can’t set your default monitor, but I’ve never run into the issue you are describing.
[OP - I posted the tweet] If you liked this, you might like my collection of business memos here. https://sriramk.com/memos I remember this particular memo very well as I was at Microsoft at the time and it felt so unfair to see the reaction to what you expect any good CEO to do.
Can you provide an alternate link to the PDF that works worldwide? Some people are getting a 451 error.
I very rarely use Windows now (at the time this happened I was working with it M-F doing support) - I’m not convinced it’s any better now is it? I downloaded an “IETester” image from Microsoft to confirm behaviour of a clients site from a Windows PC - it literally spent more time installing updates and rebooting than I did either downloading the entire vm image file or actually testing the thing I wanted to test. How…