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Post by dman »

AlexeyBrin wrote: post #198
dman wrote: post #121

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Why are all of them column based? You cant arbitrarily resize a console window in 2014?

Sure you can! Right click on the console window bar (top) and look in Settings. You will need to increase the horizontal buffer size or something like that.

Why can I resize all other windows by dragging the bottom right but not cmd.exe?

I also forgot to mention how slow text output is on cmd.exe when compared against terminals like xterm on linux. If the new CEO can improve the windows command line experience I for one would be immensely grateful.

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Post by amaks »

brianmcdonough wrote: post #368
zmmmmm wrote: post #364

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> I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again It's extremely dangerous to think if Microsoft as weak. They have enormous profits and revenue - far, far bigger than Google, for example - that are secure far into the future. They are willing to plow this money for an almost indefinite amount of time into any product to brute force it to success (see Xbox) and they are willing stoop lower and employ underhand tacti…

Agreed. Microsoft tried to create a closed system, but they were prevented by governments worried about them consolidating their power forever. Now, we are faced with two closed systems fighting for power, ios and android. Companies like facebook talk about their "mobile moment" the time when their presences on closed systems eclipsed their presence on an open system, the Internet. I long for a time when data flowed…

How can we be certain that a stronger, with a strong developer engagement, Microsoft will not start creating proprietary closed systems and protocols again, siloing open systems into a closed ones (by using its embrace and extend tactics)?

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Post by MartinCron »

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #360
MartinCron wrote: post #313

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Yeah, Zune was a market failure, but it was a really great product that was totally underrated.

I tried to buy one not long ago and was sad that they had been discontinued. I don't know if this is still the case today (or even relevant in the world of smartphones) but I could not for the life of me find an MP3 player with an FM tuner in it. But the Zune had one, did it not?

I'm pretty sure it did have an FM tuner in it. Also, the new iPod Nano has FM, if you're still in the market. http://www.apple.com/ipod-nano/

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Post by vacri »

porker wrote: post #195

I love the quote "Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation". The most profound words I've read all day. What would our industry be like if it respects tradition? Less reinventing the wheel every decade?

Given that the internet as the public knows it is only 20 years old, there's really not that much tradition. A kid in 1990 wouldn't say "I wanna be a web developer", because that job simply did not exist - it would still be several years before Mosaic came along (it's just had it's 21st birthday)

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Post by SonicSoul »

His statements sounded rather generic.

Satya on first things to focus on:

* ruthlessly remove obstacles to innovation

* focus innovation on things that Microsoft can uniquely do

* find more meaning at work

opportunities for Microsoft:

* opportunities are unbounded; we want need to be able to pick a unique contribution that we want to bring.. (focus on productivity)

why will Microsoft be successful?

* we have the talent, the resources and perseverance like no one else has => combine it with self empowered world = best platform to change the world.

hopefully soon there will be a more tangible strategy for Microsoft, but i'm not holding my breath.

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Post by BlackDeath3 »

MartinCron wrote: post #373
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #360

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I tried to buy one not long ago and was sad that they had been discontinued. I don't know if this is still the case today (or even relevant in the world of smartphones) but I could not for the life of me find an MP3 player with an FM tuner in it. But the Zune had one, did it not?

I'm pretty sure it did have an FM tuner in it. Also, the new iPod Nano has FM, if you're still in the market. http://www.apple.com/ipod-nano/

Very cool. Thanks for the link!

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Post by pnathan »

sdegutis wrote: post #179
adamt wrote: post #160

I'd never thought I'd say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again. Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry. Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be i…

From a technical standpoint, I'd love to see Microsoft starting to gain more traction in the developer world. Coming from Java and Objective-C, I'm pretty excited about C# and .NET, which seem much friendlier towards us developers.

Coming from the open source world, I do not understand what you mean by friendlier. Can you ruminate a bit on this?

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Post by taopao »

YZF wrote: post #273
taylodl wrote: post #197

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Why? What good would a strong Microsoft provide us? What void would that fill? We've been there, done that and frankly, I don't care to go back. They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it. No, I much prefer today's world of Google, Apple, Samsung and FOSS in all its myriad forms battling it out. There's more developer frameworks than ever a…

Really? The world of Google and Apple (Samsung and FOSS aren't even a player) is a world of closed computing platforms where people can't control their own devices and can't and don't code for them. More languages? I don't think so. How many languages can you use to write apps for your iPhone or Android device? Objective C and Java respectively and that's about it. With Google not only do you not control your apps/de…

That's a lot of invective, and a lot of falsehoods.

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Post by skywhopper »

rlpb wrote: post #203
skywhopper wrote: post #71

I hope the new CEO has the courage and the power to set out a vision and stick to it for more than just a few years in a row. Microsoft under Ballmer has been a study in short attention span. Changing themes, names, and directions every three to five years. When I was a Windows sysadmin back in the day, it was incredibly frustrating to build anything on the Microsoft platform because by the time you wrapped your brai…

> When I was a Windows sysadmin back in the day, it was incredibly frustrating to build anything on the Microsoft platform because by the time you wrapped your brain around the new way of doing things, the next server OS release would change everything. [...] > Apple's success has come from a laser focus and constant improvement for the past 17 years. Really? OS 9, OS X, iOS? Sure, it's not quite the same number of p…

I'm not sure I totally understand what you're saying, but I'll try to respond:

When Apple bought NeXT and Steve Jobs took over as CEO, the OSX project was born at that moment. Before that Apple had been stabbing wildly in the dark for a solution to their outdated OS, with a bunch of failed efforts at a rewrite. Yes, they updated the old MacOS a couple of times, which needed to happen, but as soon as OSX was ready for prime timee, they made the switch.

iOS is to some extent based on the same internals as OSX, but even if it were a completely different architecture, I'd say it's actually a good example of Apple's focus. Rather than forcing crossover and synergy where it doesn't make sense (ie, forcing the Metro interface onto the desktop and server, without actually providing Metro interfaces to their most popular desktop apps or server tools), Apple created separate OSes for devices that have completely different roles.

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