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Thurrott has been bizarrely bipolar about Microsoft for a very long time. He is pro-MS "on average" but will careen wildly between unwarranted hyperbolic praise

by bztzt 13y ago

Thurrott has been bizarrely bipolar about Microsoft for a very long time. He is pro-MS "on average" but will careen wildly between unwarranted hyperbolic praise and unwarranted hyperbolic invective. Sometimes about the exact same things within the span of a week or two.

Legion 13y ago
When your focus is sufficiently narrow, minor variations look like massive shifts, and perspective suffers. Thurrott seems to look at the computing world through a magnifying glass pointed squarely at MS, overreacting to every little shift and bump there, while never being able to see what's going on elsewhere particularly clearly.
vacri 13y ago
It's even in this article. The first sentence is largely at odds with the tone of the rest of the article: "I defended windows 8 from the outset" then "it's been a massive cockup from the outset". There seems to be little self-reflection that all the other commentators were right, and Thurrot was wrong. The advice in the final paragraphs is just plain wrong as well. It should be "Don't use one OS GUI for two different user paradigms", not "abandon an entire market segment". Windows needs to go back to a traditional desktop, and Windows Mobile should continue on as is.
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  Sounds to me as if he was defending the cockup and has since reconsidered / decided it's salvageable. The statements aren't necessarily contradictory.
- r00fus 13y ago
  Given the rise of Nadella, I'm sure the new lockdown/home platform of Microsoft is going to be their cloud services. Following the Google/Apple model of having cloud profiles maintain/inform/manage (depending on home/gaming/work platforms) all the Microsoft devices seems the best approach. It's also what people want - they want unified logins (note: plural, Google!) so that they can get on with their work/personal/gaming needs and ensure that new devices that are platform compliant "just work" with minimal/no config.

by bztzt 13y ago

Legion 13y ago

When your focus is sufficiently narrow, minor variations look like massive shifts, and perspective suffers. Thurrott seems to look at the computing world through a magnifying glass pointed squarely at MS, overreacting to every little shift and bump there, while never being able to see what's going on elsewhere particularly clearly.

vacri 13y ago

It's even in this article. The first sentence is largely at odds with the tone of the rest of the article: "I defended windows 8 from the outset" then "it's been a massive cockup from the outset". There seems to be little self-reflection that all the other commentators were right, and Thurrot was wrong. The advice in the final paragraphs is just plain wrong as well. It should be "Don't use one OS GUI for two different user paradigms", not "abandon an entire market segment". Windows needs to go back to a traditional desktop, and Windows Mobile should continue on as is.

dredmorbius 13y ago
Sounds to me as if he was defending the cockup and has since reconsidered / decided it's salvageable. The statements aren't necessarily contradictory.
r00fus 13y ago
Given the rise of Nadella, I'm sure the new lockdown/home platform of Microsoft is going to be their cloud services. Following the Google/Apple model of having cloud profiles maintain/inform/manage (depending on home/gaming/work platforms) all the Microsoft devices seems the best approach. It's also what people want - they want unified logins (note: plural, Google!) so that they can get on with their work/personal/gaming needs and ensure that new devices that are platform compliant "just work" with minimal/no config.