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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
They did as recently as 2016 and then gave up on it: " Intel could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets, wasting billions of dollars it spent trying to expand in those markets. The company is i
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
The HP Elite x3 running Windows Phone 10 had a dock that would let you plug in a monitor and peripherals to provide a desktop Windows environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Elite_x3 If Intel hadn't cancel
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
They had a second attempt with x86 smartphone chips and bungled that too: https://www.pcworld.com/article/414673/intel-is-on-the-verge...
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Windows Phone was indeed damn good. I held on to my WP 10 phone a lot longer than anyone sane would have. However, the only growth for WP was in the negative direction. There were no apps for WP because of past compatibility breaks, Googl
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Microsoft was under consent decrees and anti-trust / anti-monopoly scrutiny for much of Ballmer's tenure and had to tread very carefully in the marketplace. Pichal doesn't have that excuse. In fact, Google is staring down t
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
There were a lot of mistakes by the Windows Phone division but ultimately WP had zero chance of succeeding with Google sabotaging access to YouTube and their other services.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Except Steven Sinofsky, longtime head of the Windows division and one of the internal forces preventing Microsoft from going in alternate directions, was pushed out under Ballmer's tenure, not Nadella's. Granted, Ballmer made the
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Yes, one can't blame Ballmer for the missteps of the Xbox team directly (that honor goes to Don Mattrick, VP in charge of IEB at the time of the Xbox One launch). Divisional VPs get a lot of latitude in how they run their org. Howeve
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
The SDET role at Microsoft was eliminated under Satya and it shows in their products.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
It's the dreaded T-word: telemetry. The same sort of thing people get up in arms about in Windows but JetBrains will get a pass here.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Yep, "visibility" and "impact" (oh, how I loathe those words) are everything in a competitive environment or when management is looking to make job cuts. If your manager can't make the case as to why you are more i
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
All preventing that got us was a Chrome browser monopoly instead by a business whose overwhelmingly dominant source of revenue was internet advertising, oops. Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire. We'd probably have com
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
That used to exist as a product called Microsoft ESP. It got sold off to Lockheed Martin when the Flight Simulator project was shut down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Loc...
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Happy 25th birthday to the Sega Dreamcast(twitter.com)
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Microsoft Remote Desktop for the Mac is a grid of thumbnails already. There is a list view but it isn't the default.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Windows Defender I'm willing to overlook; it defends Windows which is at least slightly explanatory. Windows App gives no hint about its purpose at all. If I wanted to connect to another Windows machine and saw a Windows App entry in
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Even though I'm well aware of HN's guideline against shallow dismissals, I still can't help but say it: Worst. Naming choice. Ever. Searching for documentation or assistance relating to "Windows App" will be effec
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
> " How is one of the most fundamental features of the biggest software platform in history, made by one of the biggest companies in history, after decades, still not even close to as good as multiple basic indie replacements? &quot
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Heaven forfend. It would be Nadella's equivalent of Ballmer's attempt to buy Yahoo.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
UI/UX is designed by UI/UX specialists at giant corporations. Often engineers who have criticism get brushed off.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Everything old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing But, of course, there's not a peep about TwC in the memo.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
He didn't "miss" anything. Microsoft had wrested dominance in smartphones from Palm just before the iPhone was released. Ballmer may have made a mistake in keeping him on but Myerson was the person in charge of keeping Wind
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
That was more directly on Terry Myerson, VP of Mobile and Embedded Devices or whatever it was called at the time, than Ballmer.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
There's a case to be made that Ballmer is smarter than the ignorati give him credit for but let's not forget things like the attempted Yahoo acquisition. That would have been an absolute disaster for Microsoft.
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Makes perfect sense if you know your history: _soft_ware for _micro_computers, because in the era where Microsoft was founded, the word "computer" was associated with room or building sized mainframes. Minicomputers were the size
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Actually, for the Operating Systems Group specifically, it was reportedly a straight up layoff of all testers. See https://www.zdnet.com/article/beyond-12500-former-nokia-empl... Other divisions reportedly transition
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by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
> " to get a foothold and conquer the living room " They did try it, remember? During the Xbox One launch, there was a heavy marketing blitz to position it as a living room multimedia machine and console gamers absolutely tore
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by ThrowawayB7 3y ago
As a side note to the sibling comments, Microsoft's spreadsheet product for DOS was named Multiplan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan .
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by ThrowawayB7 3y ago
If the Yahoo acquisition that he really, really wanted had gone though, Steve Ballmer would probably have been the laughingstock tech CEO of the decade. Luckily for him, Jerry Yang captured that title instead by turning Ballmer's offe
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by ThrowawayB7 3y ago
Much as he was criticized, a fair bit of which was deserved, the one thing that you could say about Steve Ballmer is that he was still very, very passionate about making Microsoft succeed right up until he was ousted. Being some kind of pas

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