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For the First Time in My 20 Year Career, Microsoft is Irrelevant
- arkitaip 16y agoFluff piece based on anecdotal evidence and confirmation bias. Oh, and last time I heard something about Microsoft that mattered? Well, how about Windows Phone 7? Kinect? Office 365? Windows Live Essentials 2011?
- dwc 16y agoI've heard some good things about Windows Phone 7, but as far as I can tell it actually is irrelevant at this point. Android might be irrelevant as well. What are Office 365 and Windows Live Essentials 2011? I have honestly not heard of them, and I can't be bothered to look them up because office apps are commodities, and I have trouble thinking anything with a name like Windows Live Essentials is actually essential. For me, the thing is that when I'm on a Mac, I miss having a real unix system, and when I'm on Linux or BSD I sometimes miss the easy things on Mac. But I never find myself missing anything about Windows. The only time Windows would make my life easier is when I find myself looking at some proprietary file. And that doesn't make me long for Windows, but resent it. Kinect is wicked cool, and is relevant. MS needs to do more things like this! Specifically, real innovation that's actually a game changer.
- octopus 16y agoI've used, mainly for development purposes, all major operating system of today (Windows, Linux and Mac). I have to say that any of them can be used for doing your work. You can have a Unix like environment on Windows or on Apple, and you can have nice GUIs on Linux. The debate is basically based on ones tastes. But you can not say that Microsoft is irrelevant, it could be of no use to you personally, but in the end if you work on software development it will matter. I can agree with you that Windows Phone 7 is a disaster, but Office 2010, Windows 7 are success stories.