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Re: Microsoft at Work

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(From a game developer’s perspective) The SH series was great. While they still live on in ARM’s Thumb licensing I can’t help feeling they would still be relevant with today’s compilers.

Check out j-core.org (reimplementation of SH processor based on expired patents) made by Rob Landley

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At least there's no XBox Live!(tm) yet... Oh.

Lest anyone forget, let's revisit the naming convention of Xboxen. To make my point, I will randomize the order instead of going chronologically: Xbox One Xbox Xbox Series X/S Xbox One X/S Xbox 360 They all had "Xbox Live!" more usually written Xbox LIVE At work I like to joke that any new product coming out from Microsoft should be renamed "Azure DevOps", since their goal appears to be confusion.

Don’t forget to add to that list such beautiful services as Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass For PC (later renamed to PC Game Pass, for which you still have to have an Xbox app installed)

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yeah even most sega games did not use Windows CE. I think that the exception may have been Sega Rally's port on the Dreamcast

Do you think they used Windows CE for Sega Rally to ease the port from the Windows version?

no idea if that was a factor

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Are you referring to Azure DevOps Server, formerly known as Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio Team System? Or are you referring to Azure DevOps Services, formerly known as Visual Studio Online / Visual Studio Team Services? Fortunately they both support both Git and Microsoft's own Team Foundation Version Control (which luckily never changed its name). Please let me know the answer via Microsoft Teams, or if you…

You forgot Azure DevOps, their attempt at a JIRA/project management ersatz. Also Skype, that is sometimes called Lynx, or Skype for Business.

Lync* actually, so imagine talking about new things coming to the System.Linq namespace and the migration to Lync from MSN Messenger at a .NET shop in the late 2000s, confusing the heck out of everyone.

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Its a bit of a tangent, but the article mentioned Windows shipping with a fax like appliance which reminds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Bu5tkDs98 Millions of people must have insisted that they didn't a have a fax machine and completely missed that it was build into the computer they were using and fully supported by the fax modem in their machine.

Right but it was rare to have a home line dedicated to faxes. I used a primary then secondary line to send faxes, never receive them.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you referring to Azure DevOps Server, formerly known as Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio Team System? Or are you referring to Azure DevOps Services, formerly known as Visual Studio Online / Visual Studio Team Services? Fortunately they both support both Git and Microsoft's own Team Foundation Version Control (which luckily never changed its name). Please let me know the answer via Microsoft Teams, or if you…

You forgot Azure DevOps, their attempt at a JIRA/project management ersatz. Also Skype, that is sometimes called Lynx, or Skype for Business.

Afaicr, Skype for Business (aka Lync) is a completely different codebase / program than Skype.

They rebranded it when they bought Skype because everyone hated Lync so much.

Which... to be fair, Lync is the only application I've known that's dumb enough to repeat failed login attempts with the same incorrect credential until the account is locked.

Found out when I'd rotate my AD password and a box I was remoted into would promptly lock my account by trying to use the old cached auth.

Re: Microsoft at Work

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The technical part was kind of interesting, yet the commentary on general Microsoft was pretty funny.

Conjures images that they're all fighting to the death with spears over at the Microsoft offices.

> It was an early attempt at an operating system for a touchscreen mobile device, one that, in classic Microsoft fashion, competed internally with another project to build an operating system for a touchscreen mobile device (called Pegasus) and died out along with the rest of MAW.

"We'll pit them against each other in the Thunderdome and see who survives." Instead they both fatally stab each other.

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Am I the only one who had trouble reading the post with that font? Maybe it's because I'm now an ancient 37 year old but reading full paragraphs in a monospace font makes my eyes hurt.

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Windows CE however DID finally make it onto a Sega SH-powered console, the Dreamcast. And only within the last decade has it become easily accessible to play those games at full speed with an open source emulator, such as Flycast, mainly due to the performance impact of implementing the MMU.

The Dreamcast did allow you to use a Windows CE-based SDK, but that was rare. Katana and Ninja were the native SDKs that you could use from SEGA, without touching Windows CE at all.

There were 79 CE games for Dreamcast. I guess it just depends on your definition of rare.
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