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Most of the time these days MS news is "cool." Open this, Linux that, check out our cool terminal. Nice to see a reminder they are still definitely not cool.

2fast4you 6y ago
A clear violation of the first midnight amendment, “Be Cool!”
pjmlp 6y ago
From point of view of enterprise consultancy they are definitely cool, you should a look at the alternatives.
mikro2nd 6y ago
MS is certainly trying to play the new cool, but the DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s. Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts.
- smt88 6y ago
  > DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s It literally doesn't. All the leadership from that time has retired, the revenue sources are different, and even the business models are different (subscription vs. upfront for many services). > Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts. Someone should tell this to all the large companies started by or tied to Nazis (Porsche, IBM, Volkswagen, Puma, Adidas, etc.) Or they should tell Apple, which went from near-death as a desktop/laptop vendor to a company now making most of its money from services. Companies change. They do a mixture of good and bad things. At this point, Microsoft is far, far from the company they were in the 80s and 90s, even if they still do bad things.
  - prepend 6y ago
    > company now making most of its money from services. Nope, they still are a hardware company. 22% from services in the latest quarter .[0] It’s gaining, but still far away from majority services. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-revenue-of-apple/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...
    - smt88 6y ago
      That's revenue. Profit is more important to me. An extreme example is when game consoles are sold near (or even below) cost in order to create a user base for game sales. Apple's services have at least twice the margin of their hardware, as far as I've seen[1]. 1. https://www.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines-of-business-4684130 https://www.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines...

2fast4you 6y ago

A clear violation of the first midnight amendment, “Be Cool!”

pjmlp 6y ago

From point of view of enterprise consultancy they are definitely cool, you should a look at the alternatives.

mikro2nd 6y ago

MS is certainly trying to play the new cool, but the DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s. Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts.

smt88 6y ago
> DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s It literally doesn't. All the leadership from that time has retired, the revenue sources are different, and even the business models are different (subscription vs. upfront for many services). > Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts. Someone should tell this to all the large companies started by or tied to Nazis (Porsche, IBM, Volkswagen, Puma, Adidas, etc.) Or they should tell Apple, which went from near-death as a desktop/laptop vendor to a company now making most of its money from services. Companies change. They do a mixture of good and bad things. At this point, Microsoft is far, far from the company they were in the 80s and 90s, even if they still do bad things.
- prepend 6y ago
  > company now making most of its money from services. Nope, they still are a hardware company. 22% from services in the latest quarter .[0] It’s gaining, but still far away from majority services. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-revenue-of-apple/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...
  - smt88 6y ago
    That's revenue. Profit is more important to me. An extreme example is when game consoles are sold near (or even below) cost in order to create a user base for game sales. Apple's services have at least twice the margin of their hardware, as far as I've seen[1]. 1. https://www.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines-of-business-4684130 https://www.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines...