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Microsoft is not what it used to be.. now unbloat all the stuff and remove useless services.. they are about to miss on the Handheld console revolution.. crazy

Microsoft is not what it used to be.. now unbloat all the stuff and remove useless services.. they are about to miss on the Handheld console revolution.. crazy when you think about it, they own windows yet they let it rot, just open source it at this point

pphysch 4y ago
OTOH it's great being a Developer (3x). It's weird being a heavy MS user (VSCode, WSL, Copilot, DX, playwright, etc.) and not even thinking about Windows OS or Office.
RajT88 4y ago
They could have owned the handheld console market if they had just repeated what Sega and Sony did. Basically: When the next gen comes out, use the latest tech to miniaturize and make portable the previous gen. Gamegear for the most part was a Sega Master System. The PSP for the most part was a Playstation 1. Both were released during a time where there was too many limitations to really fully utilize that prior catalog (see: GameGear SMS converter, which was HUGE, limited memory for downloading games onto PSP, no legal path for importing your PS1 library into the PSP from physical disks). Imagine the market share Microsoft would have if they made an Xbox One or before that Xbox 360 portable, which could play your existing library using cloud saves.
- WhereIsTheTruth 4y ago
  I totally agree with you! This for example should have been a microsoft product: https://gpd.hk/gpdwin4 https://gpd.hk/gpdwin4 Do like what Apple did for the 1st iPhone, cheap entry price with a 2 year Game Pass contract (or do like Valve and the steam deck, sell it at a loss, gamepass is the long term goal anyways), and eat the entire market share.. Windows, that's literally the biggest advantage they have over both Sony and Nintendo, yet they don't use it.. .. a giant library that spans decades Software must follow to ensure proper UX, it's not there yet.. so they have double the amount of work to do..
pohuing 4y ago
With a lot of luck we might get a tablet mode for Windows. They did present something in that direction in an internal hackathon https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/handheld-mode-for-windows-could-make-it-work-better-on-steam-deck-style-pcs/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/handheld-mode-for-wi...
pjmlp 4y ago
"Azure OS" is what matters now, so outside server workloads for Azure, WinDev seems to be left with newly graduated interns without any background on the "Developers, Developers, Developers" days. If you miss those days, XBox and Azure business lines are the ones that matter nowadays.

pphysch 4y ago

OTOH it's great being a Developer (3x). It's weird being a heavy MS user (VSCode, WSL, Copilot, DX, playwright, etc.) and not even thinking about Windows OS or Office.

RajT88 4y ago

They could have owned the handheld console market if they had just repeated what Sega and Sony did. Basically: When the next gen comes out, use the latest tech to miniaturize and make portable the previous gen. Gamegear for the most part was a Sega Master System. The PSP for the most part was a Playstation 1. Both were released during a time where there was too many limitations to really fully utilize that prior catalog (see: GameGear SMS converter, which was HUGE, limited memory for downloading games onto PSP, no legal path for importing your PS1 library into the PSP from physical disks). Imagine the market share Microsoft would have if they made an Xbox One or before that Xbox 360 portable, which could play your existing library using cloud saves.

WhereIsTheTruth 4y ago
I totally agree with you! This for example should have been a microsoft product: https://gpd.hk/gpdwin4 https://gpd.hk/gpdwin4 Do like what Apple did for the 1st iPhone, cheap entry price with a 2 year Game Pass contract (or do like Valve and the steam deck, sell it at a loss, gamepass is the long term goal anyways), and eat the entire market share.. Windows, that's literally the biggest advantage they have over both Sony and Nintendo, yet they don't use it.. .. a giant library that spans decades Software must follow to ensure proper UX, it's not there yet.. so they have double the amount of work to do..

pohuing 4y ago

With a lot of luck we might get a tablet mode for Windows. They did present something in that direction in an internal hackathon https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/handheld-mode-for-windows-could-make-it-work-better-on-steam-deck-style-pcs/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/handheld-mode-for-wi...

pjmlp 4y ago

"Azure OS" is what matters now, so outside server workloads for Azure, WinDev seems to be left with newly graduated interns without any background on the "Developers, Developers, Developers" days. If you miss those days, XBox and Azure business lines are the ones that matter nowadays.