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Post by h14h »

natas wrote: post #383

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…

Not surprising, but it's sad to accept that the only major company building consumer-focused computing devices is Apple.

My hope is that LLMs allow linux to gain market share quickly. I know personally I've had a much smoother time moving to linux now that I can delegate a lot of the annoying troubleshooting/customization to claude.

Being able to say something like "I don't like the window colors make them more consistent with my terminal color scheme" and have it "just work" feels like a superpower. I've even gone as far as asking Claude to directly edit the icon pack svg files to whenever if I encounter something that feels out of place.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

lproven wrote: post #525
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #515

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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.

> Nadella has been the best thing to happen to MS since Gates. Wow. My impression, as an MS watcher since 1988, is the exact reverse: that he is guiding the death-spiral.

Depends. Number go up, and he's good at that.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

vader_n wrote: post #529
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #514

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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…

Can you post good articles on what you said.

I'm not really going to do that.

I have personal experience in the field (27 years), and met and worked with the folks involved, so I know it's good info. I'm not especially interested in hunting around for stuff that basically is a "lite" version of my personal experience.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by wasfgwp »

Manuel_D wrote: post #477
matthewfcarlson wrote: post #397

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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…

There's a growing set of ARM windows laptops that might bite into the Chromebook market. The surface laptop 7 is pretty nice and comes in both large(ish) 15 inch and small 13.8 inch form factors.

I think there is almost zero overlap between the premium laptop market (Surface laptop) and Chromebooks.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

tredre3 wrote: post #390
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #318

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Surely it doesn't matter what the DE is then? My mum adjusted from Windows XP (when that was current) to Ubuntu 14-ish fairly easily, by simply remembering "switch it on and then click on the big swirly fox thing".

Ubuntu comes with a dock which is close enough to Windows. The comment chain you're replying to is arguing that vanilla GNOME is too different, and they're right.

Great if you've used Windows, I guess.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by Schaulustiger »

croes wrote: post #102
st_goliath wrote: post #28

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If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites. On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.

Don’t forget Kleinweich

I thought we preferred the alliteration "Winzigweich".

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by jeltz »

atoav wrote: post #495
Aeolun wrote: post #468

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It’s basically management 101. But I’ve gone through that phase and come out the other end believing that outsourcing any of the functions that aren’t commodified enough to switch at a moment’s notice is a terrible idea.

It is managment 101 to identify what makes you unique and sell that down the drain for the thing that currently makes you the most money?

Certainly seems like it from how most companies I have had personal insight into have been ran.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by siennaaurora »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #533
vader_n wrote: post #529

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Can you post good articles on what you said.

I'm not really going to do that. I have personal experience in the field (27 years), and met and worked with the folks involved, so I know it's good info. I'm not especially interested in hunting around for stuff that basically is a "lite" version of my personal experience.

Maybe you should write an article!

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

siennaaurora wrote: post #538
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #533

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not really going to do that. I have personal experience in the field (27 years), and met and worked with the folks involved, so I know it's good info. I'm not especially interested in hunting around for stuff that basically is a "lite" version of my personal experience.

Maybe you should write an article!

Thanks, but no thanks.

I don’t really get specific about my employer, and I suspect that the folks at Kodak, wouldn’t be thrilled about me writing about them.

There’s a fair bit of press out there, anyway. Not too hard to find corroborating information.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by virtualritz »

natas wrote: post #383

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…

"We sell car tires, selling fruit is just a side business."

"The fact that our fruit is rotten and customers complain about that does not faze us as, again: we're primarily a car tire business and that's where our revenue comes from."

The 'reasoning' of the sociopath-level[1] of the corporate hierarchy never fails to entertain.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

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