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At Google, no one wants to work on existing things. You must create new product/feature to get promoted. Then you move on and thing gets shutdown. This is direc
by telltruth 7y ago
At Google, no one wants to work on existing things. You must create new product/feature to get promoted. Then you move on and thing gets shutdown. This is direct consequences of their internal incentive structure.
- MrBuddyCasino 7y agoI heard that’s how PowerShell came in existence. Nobody wanted to improve conhost.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> I heard that’s how PowerShell came in existence. Nobody wanted to improve conhost. PowerShell still relies on conhost. Do you mean PowerShell ISE instead of plain PowerShell or do you mean cmd.exe instead of conhost?
- MrBuddyCasino 7y agoYou're right, cmd.exe not conhost.
- nikbackm 7y agoIt's not really possible to substantially improve either conhost or cmd due to backwards compatibility considerations. The risk of breaking something for someone is just too high.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoAnd some people dont realize the amount of work Microsoft puts into backwards compatibility. Just look at articles describing the leaked Windows source they describe Microsoft putting in code to path third party Windows software to make sure it still works. This is also why Wine struggles from version / config to version / config. They cant account for every edge case the way Microsoft does / has. Microsoft by comparison has unlimited resources while Wine is just volunteers who can only test so much software.
- rndgermandude 7y agoThey just announced Windows Terminal and even spent time and money on a marketing video for this yet unreleased product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE Granted, conhost will stay for compatibility reasons and this is a new thing. But it's open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal . And according to the readme contains the source for conhost.exe too.
- FerretFred 7y agoThe big problem here is that there are a lot of people that have spent a lot of money in buying quality hardware that isn't just for leisure, it's for protection. I'll cite my 4 Nest Protects and an outdoor camera as an example. If somehow they get "sunsetted" due to some Google whim, fad or Because They Can, then I'm going to be pretty p*ssed to say the least. Based on past experience I don't trust Google to act in the users interest.
- jandrese 7y agoIt's especially annoying when you bought a product specifically because it wasn't a Google product and you had confidence that the developers would leave the devices fully functional for its lifetime, then the company gets bought out by Google and the APIs get shut down or sucked into some goddamn cloud service nonsense.
- ppeetteerr 7y agoGoogle is notorious for abandoning past projects. They are of the "try everything and fail fast" variety, and I wouldn't trust my money with their hardware. Not even software, except for Docs and Gmail.
- ascagnel_ 7y agoThis is why I feel like Stadia is doomed to failure from the start. It took Microsoft failing for an entire generation, even when they brought some new technology to the table, to start seeing real mindshare in the video game industry. I don't see Google running a service at a loss for half a decade.
- takeda 7y agoNews flash, it will. All gadgets that are internet connected will stop working sooner or later, I guess with Google it is sooner. This and privacy concerns is the reason I'm abiding anything IoT. Why should I purchase something that I can't own.