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I second all of these conclusions and have a few anecdotes of my own to add. WinXP is still the dominant Enterprise Operating system (crazy I know). Exchange
by josh2600 13y ago
I second all of these conclusions and have a few anecdotes of my own to add.
WinXP is still the dominant Enterprise Operating system (crazy I know).
Exchange email is seen as a relic of a time gone by for new companies and something that admins usually hate in large companies. Outsource it (and I'll note that the largest reseller of Exchange, Intermedia, doesn't sell Office365).
The first windows phone I had was Windows Mobile 4.0. The flipphone handsets that came out during 6.0 were good, but every one of their gigantic, flagship, Halo devices, was terrible. HTC had some of the most badass, feature-packed phones ever, and the Operating system killed them. It's just a pile of bloat, the same way WinPhone7 and WinPhone8 appear to be. Look at the work they've done with Nokia where they basically paid Nokia billions of dollars in marketing money to attempt to promote WinPho8 and ended up hemmoraging marketshare in the transition from Symbian (Elop's "Burning Platform" memo should go down as the worst corporate writing ever, and it's not lost on me that he came from $MSFT).
I won't even dignify the surface with commentary. It was an unmitigated disaster that everyone saw coming.
Azure is only large because of promo usage. It's not competitive even with Digital Ocean in terms of scale (my personal opinion, I have no facts to back this up except anecdotes I can't publish). There's a lot of empty instances in Azure land.
Microsoft is making a lot of obvious errors. They continue to be unable to remove FUD and the Cruft of age. If they go down this path, the inertia will eventually kill them; it might take 20 years, but Microsoft is already becoming a place that finds it hard to recruit. I would argue that without their ridiculous abuse of the H1B program they would not be able to remain competitive.
In short, there's a lot of stuff to fix. The bright spot for Microsoft, as always, is licensing, but that's an ugly, ugly business.
My $.02.
- davidgerard 13y agoTo be fair, Windows XP use is moving to Windows 7 - just so people can have 4GB or 8GB of memory on their work PC. Not Windows 8, but Windows 7.
- 300bps 13y agoThis is precisely what fueled my employer (19,000 employees) to do a mass update of Windows XP to Windows 7. We'll probably skip 8 like we did Vista and go to 8.1 or more likely 9. The 3 GB of usable memory you're limited to with 32-bit Windows XP is very restrictive.
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- 300bps 13y agoWinXP is still the dominant Enterprise Operating system (crazy I know). Source? Everything I see states that Windows 7 is the dominant Windows operating system in the Enterprise. HTC had some of the most badass, feature-packed phones ever, and the Operating system killed them. It's just a pile of bloat, the same way WinPhone7 and WinPhone8 appear to be. This is just silly. You bring up Windows Mobile 4.0, then 6.0. Then you lump Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 in with them. Tell me - which WP8 phone have you owned? Because you're replying to a thread I started in which I said everything before WP8 stunk. So if you haven't used WP8, there isn't much point to your comment. I won't even dignify the surface with commentary. It was an unmitigated disaster that everyone saw coming. Surface Pro is doing well. Surface RT is what is not doing well - as you said, it's a solution looking for a problem. There's a lot of empty instances in Azure land. Where do you get these stats? and it's not lost on me that he came from $MSFT And it's not lost on me that you use a 90s-era style anti-Microsoft inclusion of a $ when mentioning them. Do you at least realize how biased you are or do you lack introspection?
- CamperBob2 13y agoSource? Everything I see states that Windows 7 is the dominant Windows operating system in the Enterprise. Try looking at reports not authored by the Microsoft marketing department. Surface Pro is doing well. Seriously. Whatever they're paying you, is it worth your dignity?
- josh2600 13y agoYou think Windows is great. I don't. You think you can tell me my comment is worthless despite the many years I've spent deeply entrenched in Microsoft culture. The past has relevance. Well is relative with respect to the Surface Pro, but I won't waste my keystrokes attacking its sales figures. As I mentioned in another comment I've got a lot of folks who run big stuff on Azure and I can tell you that almost all of their instance time is comped. Take that for what it's worth, I don't run in Azure and don't plan to run in Azure, but I can appreciate your comments here. The $MSFT comes from StockTweets. I'm not biased, I am a student of the industry. If you ask me to critique Apple, I'd have a number of things to say. Microsoft isn't all negative, they still make a ton of money, but calling the Kettle black isn't a crime. WP8 is not a dominant operating system. Azure is not a dominant cloud infrastructure. Surface is not a dominant tablet. We can debate semantics, but we can both agree that Microsoft has a lot of work to do. I believe it's in the product, and, if I understand you correctly, you believe it's in the branding/marketing. Chances are we're both partially correct. Does that make sense?
- rgbrenner 13y agoAzure has $1B in revenue [0]. Are you seriously telling me that DigitalOcean is that large? I think I'm going to need a citation if you want me to believe that. [0]. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sales-top-1-billion-challenging-amazon.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sal...
- Retric 13y agoDigital Ocean is worth 15.6 billion so ut's not exactly a small company. Edit nm wrong company.
- rgbrenner 13y agoPosting a new made-up number is the opposite of a citation. Just FYI. Also, I'm going to be straight with you... There's not one bit of me that believes that number.
- LockeWatts 13y agohttp://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=051160:KS http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/s... Market Cap: 15.6B
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- patrickg_zill 13y agoThat number is in Korean Won.
- Encosia 13y agoThat's the wrong company and those numbers aren't in USD (On the order 10-15 million USD market cap).
- guiomie 13y ago051160:KOSDAQ. Wake up dude.