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It looks like Microsoft is starting to head in a better direction given their backtracking on "metro" style for desktop applications. I hope they develop more s
by leobelle 13y ago
It looks like Microsoft is starting to head in a better direction given their backtracking on "metro" style for desktop applications. I hope they develop more software for non-Windows devices. I really wouldn't mind using Microsoft software on non-Windows. I only use Windows for testing and gaming.
I wish Nadella and Microsoft luck, and hope they make a real turn around.
As a side note it is also exciting to see some more diversity in the top ranks of one of our biggest technology companies. If I were a young aspiring engineer from India, or anywhere in the world really, I'd feel pretty good about the future right now.
Also amazing is that they're publishing and embedding Google YouTube videos on that page.
- skrebbel 13y ago> As a side note it is also exciting to see some more diversity in the top ranks of one of our biggest technology companies. Because true diversity is people who look different!
- leobelle 13y agoI'm not sure what you mean by your reply.
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- ebbv 13y agoIt means he's one of those white racists who doesn't think he's racist.
- mason240 13y agoI read it as the above person being a SJW who has a problem with Nadella being "white on the inside."
- sremani 13y agoHe is son of an IAS officer, he is part of Indian Elite. But coming to US in 80s and making to University of Chicago means he is a real deal.
- klipt 13y agoI'd think a SJW would be more concerned that he's an able bodied cishet male. That's only marginally better than the dreaded able bodied cishet white male.
- skrebbel 13y agoThat comment is basically impossible to refute. You can say it to anyone and automatically win the argument, regardless of content. You call me a racist, well, I call you a cheapskate.
- asolove 13y agoI'm sure his diversity is only skin deep, and that being born in Hyderabad to an Indian civil servant and migrating to America as an adult had no effect on his personality, experience, or opinions.
- chris_wot 13y agoHe reads Russian literature, loves poetry, and watches test cricket. Seems like a pretty diverse bunch on interests to me.
- benihana 13y agoHa ha ha! Because he doesn't look different enough! Get it? Cause he's basically a white guy with darker colored skin, get it? Because being born in a different country and moving here basically makes you white, get it?
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- tomswartz07 13y agoI find it particularly interesting that they highlighted his work with *Nix systems in his early career. I don't want to draw any conclusions, but I have a good feeling about that.
- leobelle 13y agoMan, a fully functional supported bash-like terminal on Windows would be heaven sent.
- ConceptJunkie 13y agoI use TCC from these guys (jpsoft.com). It used to be called 4NT and before that 4DOS. Basically it's a superset of cmd.exe (a super-dooper-set these days) and lets you do pretty much anything you can do with shells like bash. If you're from a Unix background, you're probably better off running bash from Cygwin, but if you're a Windows guy, TCC is a great shell. It's the first thing I install on a Windows machine.
- ygra 13y agoI'd take PowerShell over bash any day. If you mean the console window, that's completely independent of the applicating running inside both on Unix-likes and Windows and admittedly there are things to improve. However, there are ConEmu, Console2 and others which by now work really, really well.