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The weirdest thing about microsoft is that if they want to, they can deliver good software. VSCode and Github are amazing! And they did WSL! On the other hand, they also have Teams and Azure Devops (that’s their “enterprise github”).
The weirdest thing about microsoft is that if they want to, they can deliver good software. VSCode and Github are amazing! And they did WSL! On the other hand, they also have Teams and Azure Devops (that’s their “enterprise github”).
VSCode and Github are both bought. With WSL you're right.
Microsoft has an absolutely terrible track record in the creative productivity category to the point that their previous entrants fell somewhere between “toy” and “joke.” I don’t have high hopes here, personally.
I would wager MS Paint has done more to spark creativity and set people on a path to becoming digital artists than any other piece of software in history like Photoshop. I wouldn't underestimate the power of 'toy' programs.
The weirdest thing about microsoft is that if they want to, they can deliver good software. VSCode and Github are amazing! And they did WSL! On the other hand, they also have Teams and Azure Devops (that’s their “enterprise github”).
VSCode and Github are both bought. With WSL you're right.
Monaco itself was not bought.
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"Windows 11 calculator is creating many problems such as the app surprisingly crashes, opens then immediately closes, or not performs as expected. Some people complain that the built-in Microsoft Store application does not work after they have received an update." [1] The fact that there are 14 ways to fix the Calculator app listed in this article, including even "Disable Windows Firewall temporarily", is simply beyo…
> "Disable Windows Firewall temporarily" I can only presume this is because Microsoft records and sends your calculator inputs to themselves. Windows is just one gigantic spyware operation. So glad I can run 99% of my daily ops on Linux
I feel a deep sadness, a sympathy, or sense of loss for the countless artists who have toiled to produce beautiful works over the decades (centuries?), just for them to be approximated by a single click as a vector mashup in an AI generative search space. And without so much as a by your leave. I'm not saying it's logical to be against AI image generation, but definitely have a feeling that something has gone wrong h…
I was in the "Alte Pinoteke" in Munich, Germany, on Sunday. It is a fabulous gallery full of huge and old master paintings. There was a certain 4 frame series with each frame about 5m long by 3m high. Each was an architectural study of Rome with each being from a different view direction. What struck me was the text written below the paintings which indicated that the artist, after *3 years of work*, had been quoted…
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It's just more randomness to pad out their Microsoft 365 offerings. It's like that horrible buffet you keep visiting because it's cheap and, well, cheap.
Core of office 365 (word/power point/excel) is pretty good! To be seen if this more excel or teams.
But done and thus stagnating. Companies hate "pretty good", "done" and stagnating. They want to offer new stuff. Enable growth. Crossselling. Upselling.
I am not sure what Designer is and I wanted to check if it was a Figma/Adobe XD competitor.
Many snarky comments here because, Microsoft + AI. Maybe, but I don't think this is looking to replace stable diffusion or DALL-E. This is going after Canva and if it gets bundled into your existing 365 subscription it can be a compelling offer for millions of SMEs and consumers on that stack already (especially if it integrates well with Word/Outlook/etc).
That’s capitalism 101, but in 50 years from now, it might be really hard to start a software company. GAMMA would have eaten just about everything.