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What Microsoft’s revival can teach other tech companies
- ailideex 7y agoSomething which Azure has taught me is that people will eat shit from Microsoft by the spoonful and pay them for it.
- sieabahlpark 7y agoDon't say this on Reddit you'll be met with that azure is the best cloud out of the three major ones.
- lowdose 7y agoBunch of amateurs.
- mayankkaizen 7y agoYou, sir, are very arrogant.
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- mayankkaizen 7y agoAlthough I somwwhat agree with your assessment about Reddit users, your comment (on HN) doesn't put you in a very good position either. Your comment reeks of arrogance. You should have been more elaborate and less arrogant.
- type0 7y agoThat's because MS is the new IBM, and as a saying goes it means that you can't be fired for buying MS.
- scarface74 7y agoAs if that’s a bad thing. If you were a CTO in the early 70s and decided to buy mainframe systems from IBM, you could still buy compatible systems today from the same vendor. Their competitors - not so much.
- scarface74 7y agoCare to explain how Azure is worse than AWS? All of my experience is with AWS so I’m not in any position to defend Azure, but a random statement doesn’t exactly lead to a substantive conversation.
- dang 7y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- std_throwaway 7y agoI learned that you can change your public image to suit your current needs in whatever way you want and people will soon forget the past. Soon, Microsoft will have always been a big supporter of open source in the minds of most people.
- johnday 7y agoWhy does it matter what they were? They have changed their public image (and, in point of fact, their actions) and they are being rewarded for it. We should reward companies which make positive changes and condemn those which make hostile ones. Hanging onto the image of how they used to behave will only slow down the positive feedback loop.
- raymondh 7y agoI concur. Microsoft is now an important and helpful part of the open source ecosystem. For the most part, they've been generous and engaging with the community. Also, the commercial products seem to be living in harmony with their open source counterparts. We're living in a future better than most of us could have imagined twenty years ago. We should embrace it.
- mc32 7y agoIt works the other way too. Many people still believe in Google’s abandoned motto; but that motto has been dead for quite some time.
- std_throwaway 7y agoYes, there's basically no integrity. Only the appearance of it. A company isn't this way or that way they just do whatever is most promising in that moment.
- llampx 7y agoThis is 100% correct. Too many otherwise rational people make emotional decisions, like trusting Google and thinking that Apple hardware is still the most reliable.
- vmurthy 7y agoTl;dr 1. Don’t f* over your customers and partners. 2. Don’t build what _you_ want and expect that everyone will use. I had read “Hit Refresh” a while ago and Nadella does talk a lot about empathy. It felt a bit woozy at that time but my experience as a PM is really beginning to show me the importance of listening to your customers.
- bocklund 7y agoOdd that this is gaining tracking at the same time that they are under fire for banning GitHub accounts.
- vikinghckr 7y agoSorry, but this so called Microsoft revival under Nadella is pure marketing, not in the least bit technical. Under Ballmer (and Gates before him), Microsoft were a super ambitious company that tried to be the best at everything it did, and they made an effort to recruit the best programmers. Under Nadella, Microsoft completely lacks any ambition, and almost all of their best programmers have left for Google, Facebook or Amazon. They are now officially the new IBM. Not in the least bit exciting or something to emulate.
- llampx 7y ago[Citation needed]
- mistermann 7y agoThey've written zero lines of code since Nadella's arrival?
- vikinghckr 7y agoThey're writing code obviously, but they are happy hiring mediocre programmers these days for their boring, mediocre products. They pay far lower than Google, Facebook and Amazon do. They make zero effort to recruit the brightest minds in the industry.
- mistermann 7y agoEven if these things are true (and you have no way of knowing they are, you're clearly just guessing), your original assertion "Sorry, but this so called Microsoft revival under Nadella is pure marketing, not in the least bit technical" is false.
- vikinghckr 7y agoHow does that follow? If what I say is true (and it is, just talk to software engineers who work at these big companies they'll tell you the same), then it means Microsoft have done nothing under Nadella that's ambitious or challenging from a technical point of view. They have made no new products or improved existing ones that warrants calling it a revival. All they have done is better PR.