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The fact this is pumped out by someone with an MSDN blog makes me suspicious. Very gushy. As a Microsoft gold partner, this gushiness is not universal. In fact
by meaty 14y ago
The fact this is pumped out by someone with an MSDN blog makes me suspicious. Very gushy. As a Microsoft gold partner, this gushiness is not universal. In fact most of us are currently being fucked with extortionate licensing changes and are considering bailing out.
For reference, out of our 5500 individual clients, we've got one single windows 8 user and they're internal testing team. That spans pretty much everyone from small businesses to corporations. We have seen a growth in win7 vs winxp though since win8 was released.
- kenjackson 14y agoHe's a Microsoft employee. It would take about 2 seconds to click the link on his name to see that. Are you implying he is lying? Half of the iOS posts are from folks like John Gruber or Marco Arment. Are you suspicious when they write a post? Or when someone from Mozilla writes a pro-Mozilla post, etc? Are you suspicious that Apple may actually be bankrupt, because their earnings numbers come from a suspicious source -- the Apple CFO? In this case he's giving useful data to those on the fence about Win8 developement. I see no reason why an individual would lie, given he doesn't even have corporate anonimity to hide behind. With that said, the numbers look good and promising.
- meaty 14y agoYes I know, and from extensive experience, I'd trust the mouth of a 409 scammer more. Reputation as well as bad reputation are earned. Re Apple: Bankrupt no - morally bankrupt perhaps. Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.
- Encosia 14y ago> Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member. Quite the opposite, most Microsoft employees could only get a Surface RT in this first round if they went through the same retail channel that everyone else had to. I know two MS employees here in Atlanta who were telling me how they wished they could get one, but couldn't yet.
- chokolad 14y agoSurfaces will be distributed to employees in late December.
- meaty 14y agoI stand corrected :)