ThrowawayB7

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by ThrowawayB7 7mo ago
Yes, Microsoft does still sell MS Office 2024 as a one time purchase: - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-... - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365&#x2
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by ThrowawayB7 7mo ago
It's a device with a fixed, known-good set of hardware for developers to target, which is all that any of the major consoles is. Your question applies just as much to the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine.
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by ThrowawayB7 7mo ago
If the strategy works fine for Valve (Steam Machine / Steam Deck are also PCs), then it can work fine for the next Xbox as well.
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by ThrowawayB7 7mo ago
The fine article plainly says that these are for corporate use and that the service it is meant to connect to isn't even available to regular consumers. And this is hardly a new concept: even a casual search shows that Windows thin cl
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by ThrowawayB7 7mo ago
One would expect people on Hacker News to know that a single business division doesn't have direct access to the funds of other business divisions of the same corporation.
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure I recall "release candidate" being used in other divisions so it might be Windows division specific terminology. Microsoft is a big place.
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
Xbox has been languishing badly and Microsoft games in general have not been doing very well over the past decade despite gaming becoming completely mainstream so one might suspect that he is being retired rather than retiring. Yes, he was
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
Individual developers or even developer management doesn't get much of a say in product direction at large corporations. The product management folks are who decide what features go in and when.
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
If I had to guess, the mandate to cram AI in everywhere came down from Nadella and the executive level with each level of management having KPIs for AI in their product all the way down. Much like the "everything has to be .NET even t
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
If you Google around, you'll find that about 1/3 of server operating systems broken down by revenue (not install count) is Windows Server. That's billions of dollars.
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
The difference is that Microsoft didn't receive any direct revenue off of IE and Google had a lot of levers to use (they weren't under antitrust scrutiny at the time) to continue to eat away at IE's market share. It was smar
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
At large companies, UI/UX is done by UI/UX designers and features are chosen and prioritized by product management and customer research teams. Developers don't get much input. As Steve Jobs said long ago " The only pro
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
Reuters reports ( https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/microsoft-e... ) " CEO Nadella revealed for the first time that Microsoft now has 15 million annual users for M365 Copilot, the $30 per month A
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
The really good SDETs transitioned to SDE also because of social pressure. There were a large number of SDEs that would openly say unprofessional things like "well, if s/he were actually any good they'd be an SDE" to c
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
Having STEs as full time employees benefited MS greatly. They knew products from the end user and UI/UX perspective inside and out in ways even the SDETs didn't. UI/UX quality in MS products dipped noticeably after the STE r
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by ThrowawayB7 8mo ago
Yes, absolutely yes. But it's the price of playing in the big leagues. In exchange, you get to work on cutting edge tech used by millions.
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
Under Satya Nadella's early leadership, Microsoft eliminated the test role on their engineering teams in 2014, transferring QA responsibilities to developers and detecting issues through telemetry. That's slightly over 10 years a
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
This guy is in for a disappointing future since he seems to be unaware that Windows is more than than the consumer editions. Revenue from Windows Enterprise (which has management tools like Active Directory and backwards compatibility with
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
I was there a couple decades and you weren't.
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
> " ...Microsoft. Who we haven’t mentioned in this story, but they hated Linux more than a toddler hates naps. " A lot of FOSS people think this but it's not really true. It was a thorn in the side of MS executives as a c
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
My respect for Nadella or whoever among his leadership team greenlit this diminishes further. Having access to an extremely comprehensive technical library was invaluable for R&D and also one of the powerful invisible privileges availa
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
The Windows 8 start menu is no different from Launchpad on macOS throwing up a grid of icons that takes over the screen. Except macOS doesn't have the benefit of live tiles to excuse it.
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
That still isn't missing the boat. The pivot to the improved UI in Windows Mobile 6.5, the last of the old school Windows CE based releases, and skins by OEMs like HTC was IIRC in response to the iPhone's successful UI innovation
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
Yeah, except for those frequent "add our private PPA repository" packages or, even worse, "'curl | sudo bash' and just trust us, lol" installers.
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
So about 2.5% gain in 5 years? Great Scott, at this rate, Linux will have >50% market share on Steam in about 100 years.
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
> " They have since lost this dominance to Google " A lot of which had to do with being under a consent decree. > " When Mobile came along, Microsoft completely missed. " By "missed" you mean that MS was
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by ThrowawayB7 9mo ago
Ironic that Linus himself seems to feel less rivalry towards Windows than a large number of Linux users do.
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by ThrowawayB7 10mo ago
I think you'd lose that bet. The kind of people who buy a lot of games are also the people who are not going to be tolerant of game compatibility issues on Linux; they want to play the game, not futz with their OS.
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by ThrowawayB7 10mo ago
> " Do you think Windows OS is a profit center...? " The consumer editions are not all there is to Windows. Nearly every seat of Windows 11 Enterprise used in corporations is a paid license and there are a lot of corporations.
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by ThrowawayB7 10mo ago
> " Also: turns out that, if you put enough effort into it, Linux is actually a quite-usable gaming platform. " Valve is the one putting in the effort and paying for it at their own expense. If they ever lose interest in payin

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