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They are back in their villain arc. For a while now.
Our vocabulary is so stunted. Has no one else noticed that we increasingly talk about the world like it's fiction playing out in front of us?
I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…
Don’t they have better things to do? Maybe vibecode a taskbar that moves when you try to move away the mouse over it or perhaps a windows 12 installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan?
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You'll have to wear the fecal probe at all times while using Windows 12, for security reasons, and every command you issue will cause it to move around and take another sample, in order to make sure you are still physically there. On the plus side, it will make it painfully obvious to every Windows user how they are being fucked by Microsoft.
They could also make it so that whenever you click your mouse copilot opens. Then you have to tell copilot what you wanted to do and then copilot will do it for you. You: clicks on web browser in task bar Copilot: I see you clicked on your web browser. Do you want to open your web browser? You: Yes. Copilot: Great. I will do that for you. Opens browser What website did you want to go to? Youtube? learn.microsoft.com?…
This only if you use Microsoft Family Safety ( installed automatically) with Firefox. If you use it with Edge it will go to Pornhub and also recommend you some "Copilot" videos.
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That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. I'm surprised they haven't given up on xbox and games but perhaps there's enough money there to keep it going.
Nadella has been the best thing to happen to MS since Gates. He came from Azure. I’m pretty sure that Amazon now makes most of their money from AWS.
Wow. My impression, as an MS watcher since 1988, is the exact reverse: that he is guiding the death-spiral.
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> According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. > Her perspective was that consumer-facing products are not the primary revenue drivers and, therefore, are not central to executive priorities. This does not explain why Microsoft then does not consider the consumer products as "stable (somewhat 'legacy') platfor…
If Windows 2000 still had security updates and modern hardware support, I'd sure as heck still be using it. Every version since has been a regression.
So very true.
I set up a machine with Windows 2003 Server Datacentre Edition last year. That's the version of the XP codebase that has PAE support and can access >4 GB of RAM... and with all the junk turned off. No themes, for instance.
It was really pleasant to use.
Give me that, with MS Security Essentials and no IE, just Firefox, and I could happily work on it today.
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I think they (and even Apple) are going to get a walloping from mostly ceding the education market to chromebooks. Kids are growing up using them.
It's interesting to me as well as an ex-microsofter who worked on surface devices. Leadership (at least below the VP level) knew they were getting killed by Chromebooks and tried a few times to get a low cost device (Surface Go 1/2 for example) that ran a slimmed down version of windows (Windows S?). It tries to be more like chrome OS (hard to mess up, easy to flatten and restore a fresh OS on) but kind of just throw…
I'd be interested to see a legacy-free Windows, stripped out like LTSC, with no 32-bit binary support. Especially an Arm64 version with no x86 binary support.
How lean and mean could it be in the 2020s?
I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…
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I'm always astounded by the tendency to bet it all on core competencies and wind down every other effort that's profitable but not profitable _enough _ As if times don't change, innovation never happens, and your accessory plays of today are never the overtaking market of tomorrow.
Kodak comes to mind. They invented digital photography, but their film people deliberately kneecapped their digital people. Killed the company. I worked for a camera company that made boatloads of cash from point-and-shoot cameras. That entire business was pretty much turned into chum by smartphones. I remember them refusing to even take the iPhone seriously, when it was announced. They took a serious hit, but seem t…
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Another oldie "If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows" Ah, good times... :-)
I had to reinstall win98 so many times I still remember the pirate key k4hvdq9tj96crx9c9g68rq2d3 by heart good times :)