ThrowawayB7

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by ThrowawayB7 10mo ago
As I recall, that is not correct. There was a gargantuan internal effort to refactor Windows 10 to run on everything from mobile devices to servers. Windows Phone 10 was running Windows 10. And the tile UI was well received by those who
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by ThrowawayB7 10mo ago
You're proving my point for me: It's called Windows Enterprise and has been Windows Enterprise since the launch of Windows 10 a decade ago.
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by ThrowawayB7 10mo ago
I'd say the late '80s - early '90s when Microsoft was building the early versions of Microsoft Office. Integration among productivity apps was one of the key points of competition among all of the office suites of that era.
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by ThrowawayB7 10mo ago
We've been hearing empty punditry like that for the last several decades all while they've been a poster child for "number go up": https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft&#
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by ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
> " If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better. " People here on HN are willing pay Google (monthly even!) to remove ads from YouTube. People here are willing to pay for RHEL Worksta
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by ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
> Look at Google or Meta... Yeah, look at them: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/big-tech-companies-billions... Diverse they aren't. Alphabet is broken down in to segments but several segments including the larges
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by ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
My answers is that Satya Nadella is betting the farm on LLMs/AI and, even if it's a path toward failure, Nadella has built enough credibility from past results that he will allowed to go a long way before the board or investors wi
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by ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
> " All of this insulates them from having to worry about the long-term sustainability of making money from game sales on Windows... " The weak link in your theory is that Microsoft is in control of the future of the DirectX AP
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by ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
Even if you consider running on tightly locked down devices to support a monopoly a win, the adoption of the Linux kernel for Android has the same basis as it does for server adoption: people love getting the hard work of others for free.
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by ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
> " My tech friends always joke that pretty soon we’re going to see “the year of the Linux Windows”, where windows will just be an OS on top of the Linux kernel. " There's no need because the Year Of Linux On The Desktop™
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by ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
The breakthrough aspect of the iPhone was enabling gestures and a very usable UI without having to use a stylus. This is despite the much lower precision of the capacitive touchscreen tech available in that era. Other smartphones and PDAs
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
" Hey, let's increase our operating costs by over a hundred million per year _forever_ by doing RTO for a one time savings of a few million in severance packages of people who leave voluntarily. " said nobody ever. Thank you
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
Microsoft has been a decent enough steward of the x86 PC standard and the qualification test suite that defines it. If they are smart (which isn't necessarily guaranteed) and with enough pressure from industry and anti-competitiveness
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
Back in the real world, "Microsoft Layoffs Continue Into 5th Consecutive Month": https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-la... There's no reason to covertly plot convoluted "b
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
In the case of Microsoft, their main campus in a thriving suburb of the Seattle Eastside would be prime real estate even if they disappeared tomorrow. They have absolutely zero reason to worry about the value of their real estate regardle
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
If you're looking to do this by paying Microsoft, I think(?) an MSDN subscription still includes access to various Windows editions. What you probably want is Windows 11 Enterprise edition, meant for large corporate deployments, but n
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
People can still buy non-subscription versions of Office if they want. MS doesn't really advertise their existence but they're happy to take your money for MS Office 2024 if you insist. https://www.microsoft.com/
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
> " Security and quality are non-negotiable. " Must be really getting out of hand if he's mentioning it as a higher priority than even his AI blitz. Well, bless Satya's heart. Somebody should clue him in that not di
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
Another exasperating thing is that the signs on the wall that were supposed to provide directions by listing which office number range was down which direction were somehow of no help whatsoever. I'd be looking for office number xxx o
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
That brings back memories. Seeing that all too familiar office layout, furniture, scribbled notes on whiteboards, and whatnot somehow evokes both homesickness and PTSD at the same time. The offices were nice though. Back in the early days
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
Meanwhile, outside of the Redmond bubble, people keep hitting bugs in MS products that never would have gotten past the STEs and SDETs back in the day. Microsoft was forced to build its QA discipline in the '90s and early '00s be
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
This overlooks the 2009 and 2014 layoffs and the notorious Mini-Microsoft blog, still up over 15 years later(!), where they were discussed. The notion of a "Microsoft Pact" is absolute baloney but, had there been one, it was brok
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
The HP Elite x3 had it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Elite_x3 . The phone came with a docking cradle with desktop ports.
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
Windows will happily do whatever you want as long as you pay for the right edition.
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by ThrowawayB7 1y ago
> " I started hearing about Microsoft doing the security-escorts-you-straight-out-the-door all the way back in 2012. " Are you sure about that? Microsoft's 2014 layoffs, which were large enough to be reported in the tech
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Windows Server 2003 was the best Windows by far. All of the good parts of NT/2000 with any parts of XP available when you needed them.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
> " When companies grow, they eschew the folks who helped build it from the ground up and are intimately familiar with the business, products and customers in favor of people who have 'worked at big companies'. " Micr
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Perhaps ol' Satya should consider hiring back all the QA departments he laid off?
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
It's the "...on the desktop", i.e. that the general public would have a stated preference for Linux because it served them better than proprietary OSes, putting their makers out of business, that makes it funny. Linus even s
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Your Steam Deck provides Windows API emulation so games coded to target Windows will run on it. As a Steam Deck owner, you are perpetuating Windows gaming.

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