Reports Say Satya Nadella Is Microsoft's Next CEO 177
Nerval's Lobster writes "Microsoft's next CEO will be Satya Nadella, if current reports prove accurate. According to Re/code, which drew its information from "numerous sources close to Microsoft," Nadella could officially assume the role in early February. Meanwhile, anonymous sources speaking to Bloomberg suggested that co-founder Bill Gates could be forced to give up his longtime chairman role. Nadella (again, if confirmed) seems a logical choice for Microsoft. He's been with the company for more than twenty years, eventually becoming executive vice president of its Cloud and Enterprise division. The enterprise remains a key—perhaps the key — customer segment for Microsoft, especially as its mobile and consumer efforts (excluding the Xbox) have floundered in recent years; in order to retain those business clients, Nadella and his team embarked on the creation of 'Cloud OS,' the platform that powers Microsoft's large-scale cloud services such as SkyDrive, Azure, and Office 365. Under his guidance, Microsoft's revenue from cloud services has grown by several billion over the past few years, so he's shown that he can expand a business. In addition, his technical background could afford him a measure of respect from Microsoft's legions of engineers and developers. But if he's ultimately tapped for the CEO seat, Nadella faces one of the toughest jobs in the technology industry: not only does he need to craft a plan that will allow Microsoft to grow and prosper in an integrated, holistic manner—he'll need to do it while guiding the company through the massive internal reorganization initiated by his predecessor, Steve Ballmer."
here's a suggestion (Score:4, Funny)
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And, if you're in a car accident, if we just let you bleed on the street, we'll have saved a few bucks too.
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Birth control and education are some of the major problems he's addressing, and that doesn't lead to more starving, suffering kids.
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Birth control and education are some of the major problems he's addressing, and that doesn't lead to more starving, suffering kids.
But that'd be less souls for Jesus. What will all those fat white missionaries do?
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Using multiple different meanings of the word "fuck". I'm not sure how "bareback" would work in some of the non-literal uses of "fuck".
Maybe "without a reach around"?
That just screams asshole in all contexts.
Re:here's a suggestion (Score:4, Insightful)
This is blaringly obviously NOT EFFECTIVE. Those people are so poor that fucking is about the only thing they can do. It is free and because they have little education, they evidently can't figure out that is what gets you pregnant until it's too late. I'm middle aged, so my history on the plight of Africa doesn't go back very far, but I recall the plight of Africa gaining mainstream attention probably around the mid 80s with that whole Sally Struthers campaign. Since that time a lot of charity and aid has been sent and I think overall analysis concludes that their situation has been getting better- at least Jimmy Carter thinks so. Well what did we do before we starting sending all this aid? I'm guessing we used your proposed method which was ignore them, let them fend for themselves, and if they die, they die. Firstly that proposal is morally reprehensible to me. I don't just let people die if I can help them. But morals aside, just ignoring the situation made the problem worse. With nothing better to do they just keep pumping kids out regardless of if they can feed them or not. It has been shown historically time and time again when a nation becomes wealthy, birthrates plummet and mortality increases. Being a callous bastard as you propose would get us nowhere. The person you replied to had a better solution though I can't tell if they were joking or not (my sarcasm meter is on the fritz).
THIS is a much better solution! If the desired outcome is to reduce the number of children who will die of starvation or disease, and because of political reasons just throwing food and vaccines at them isn't working, then the next best approach is preventing the pregnancies in the first place. A condom is a fine way to do this. Throw a good helping of Nature's best medicine -education- on top of that and progress will be made. It actually can be a win-win for all concerned. We stop the suffering of others (especially the children!), we reduce or eliminate the problem of having kids one cannot support, overall health and quality of life will go up, and to appease you racist fuckers there will be fewer brown people around since instead of having 20 kids they only have 2 or 3. You can have a heart full of hate or a heart full of love and nothing I wrote above sounds bad. It's good for everyone.
I will also point out that the solution to your problem, the hateful racism eating away at your being, is also EXACTLY the same! Contraceptives and education. We reduce the chances for you to spread your malformed genes and with education, you can stop fearing the unknown and passing that message onto the kids you do have. A WIN-WIN AGAIN!
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Except for the BULLSHIT MINDLESS charge of racism, which you have absolutely no foundation for and contributes nothing, that is a damn good thoughtful reply to a post which also made me think.
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The only weapon to use against trolls is to ignore them. They do it for attention. Responding to them just feeds them and they win.
YHBT YHL HAND.
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn?
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1. The average African (AA) have not seen those "food and vaccines" that you are talking about.
2. The AA will never see those "extra-thin condoms" that BG is designing.
2a. - If the AA is lucky to get a box of them in his lifetime, that will not not change any significant digits in population growth.
3. Why is it your goal to control their population in the first place? If this is what they wanted they would control their own population by the magic
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how many poor kids do you know f that commit white-collar crimes like fraud, financial rigging, insider trading?
How many of them end up with no social conscience because the parents were either not around or too far gone into self-obsession that they have no initiative to parent their kids?
See, rich kids have it hard too.:-)
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Why aren't you taking the homeless guy home to crash on your couch you fucking hypocrite?
Given the fact that OP hasn't made his way in the world by asserting his moral supremacy he's not actually a hypocrite.
You, on the other hand are defending hypocrites. Kiddy fucking hypocrites.
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The "do nothing" argument is because no matter how much money we throw at the problem, it never ever gets better. If any progress was admitted, then the sense of crisis would ease and everyone would think they didn't have to give more money. This would obviously have a negative effect of the bu
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Congratulations, you have just applied Morton's Fork [wikipedia.org] to the situation. In reality there's a gap between "not helping" and "we're done".
This is like not saving for retirement at 62 after working since 22 since at age 42 you can't retire yet so savings obviously isn't working.
Also, I've literally never seen an argument for letting trailer park residents starve to death, but I have no doubt that you can find morons that think that -- and that doesn't support your argument *at all*, first because in that case,
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In reality there's a gap between "not helping" and "we're done".
Yes, it's called "reduce" or did you not read that part and jumped to a conclusion that supported your pre-existing mental state?
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I don't think I personally know your mother, so I can't be sure, but if I had to guess it would be a mix of paternal love and a hope that you'll eventually grow up and turn the energy you use for "edgy" shitposting into finding an actual job.
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Could the second coming of Bill Gates be as monumentally transformative for MS as the second coming of Steve Jobs was for Apple? Or would it epically fail like most of Gates's attempts to be like Jobs? I doubt Gates would want to take that risk.
Re:here's a suggestion (Score:4, Funny)
Could the second coming of Bill Gates be as monumentally transformative for MS as the second coming of Steve Jobs was for Apple? Or would it epically fail like most of Gates's attempts to be like Jobs? I doubt Gates would want to take that risk.
Why funny you should ask that.
As I will be the second in command I look forward to exciting times at Microsoft!
First things first yes I am better and my ego needs to be fed. I will do so by executing the following. Back in the good old days things worked best when I made them as proprietary as possible. I started making Xenix as non compatible as possible with Unix so the users can blame all the other unix vendors and programmers rather than me. I also had pure joy almost to an orgasmic sense with IE and using Word and Excel file formats as well to make them not work with anything else.
Balmer fucked up! First off IE works too well with standards recently. Before we know it we will have the communist and socialist unAmerican elements of the W3C tell us how to develop web pages!! Full alarm! Windows 7 just works and besides the gui in Windows 8 it is light and fast and can run on even a crappy ARM qualcomm very efficiently :-(
The next phase will introduce the following: :-( Webmasters how dare you write for other browsers! If you only wrote to our own DRM specificed CSS and XML (html is too opened) completed with binary encodings you will not have this problem. Webmasters you have a chose. 90% of all desktop users or socialist freeware browsers? I think you know which one you will choose. ... and they tell me people use this foxfire thingie since I left CEO?!
1. Documents will overwrite by default with autosave after each character. Grandma will appreciate this and we want to make this easy
2. No desktop. Multitasking is sooo 1990s. Multitasking in Metro will mean you need to go full screen and lose whatever you have in front of you and go closed door syndrome after ribbon. Since users only do one task at a time we will make Windows 9 have buttons where each ribbon should be and using rote memory will take up the whole screen and cover the document for each option etc.
3. IE will need to invent their own standards and stop supporting conditional statements for different browsers.
4. Make word documents and our new language which is called C++ but will be totally different to encourage high cost and rewrites for porting mac and linux apps (sucks to be them hahah) used to make xml with binary encodings for internet pages. I mean executing code as administrator on all sites from God knows whom?? What could possible go wrong!!!
5. Man Windows was such as fine elegantly engineered and gorgeous product compared to the Mac back in the 1980s I could not possible see why no one would want to switch to this. I mean look at marketshare. I am sure the same truths hold sway today as people are gobling up Windows Phones and tablets because the brand is so well known.
6. Windows 9 certification will require signed operating systems and DRM executables to run. I can permit Linux apps if they are signed with the Windows Store and run as an applet in the new Metro 2.0 interface with HyperV. All the geeks on slashdot will be cheering and moaning my name for this. Just you see.
Thanks for your interest.
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he doesn't know anything about modern computing. He can't even demo his own products successfully, which shows he just doesn't give a damn. He was good at "business" of beating up other companies and Canoodling government and enterprise bosses.
He's also spend decades selling down to only a few percent of Microsoft ownership. He's still the "biggest" owner but not by much. He needs to "go away" and let the company do it's thing. His time is past. He should have got his nose out a decade ago and allowed Bal
I'll vote for him (Score:4, Funny)
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Since enterprise support was a major part of his division (certainly much more profitable than the fledgling cloud services) perhaps he will. Enterprises, of course, are not at all thrilled with Win8/Metro.
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That would be pretty cool. Maybe then he'd also lobby for bringing back the non-retarded search interface from Win2k (that was available by a registry tweak in XP, byt not since).
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It was sort of like that, except all the advanced options were just available to start with, and there was no clippy. You could just pick exactly what you wanted to search for and type it in, and it would search. Also it didn't look like a cartoon. But what it *did* do was search exactly what you would expect it to, and not your whole computer and only certain file types unless you waited for the search to complete and then override it with "yes I *do* know what I'm doing, I'm not an idiot". (XP search beha
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That would be pretty cool. Maybe then he'd also lobby for bringing back the non-retarded search interface from Win2k (that was available by a registry tweak in XP, byt not since).
You mean like hitting the Windows Key and typing whatever you want while the results come back instantly without that annoying dog diggings and taking a crap while c:\ is slowly indexed each and every time?
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Also he should bring back that Add Fonts dialog box that survived from Windows 3.1 to Windows 7. I have MINUTES invested in training on that dialog.
Sigh if only I had mod points on that one.
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Actually, the most important he needs to do . . . is to toss out all the Ballmer "yes-men" executives. I have the feeling that Ballmer will still try to micromanage Microsoft from the outside . . . even though he will no longer be the CEO.
He still will be an influential voice on the Microsoft board of directors, or is he leaving the board . . . ?
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If he brings back the start button.
So he doesn't have to do anything? The Start Button is already back in Windows 8.1.
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I can't believe that Bill gates would lose that job against his will (he might be ready to focus fully on his charity, though). He just has too much stock, too many ties to other long-timers who also control %s, and is just too practiced in Microsoft-specific infighting.
Re: Microsoft is dead (Score:2)
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They just haven't been forgotten yet.
Well, zombies were all the rage a few years ago, so it would make sense that MS is going zombie after everyone else...
Moving away from consumer products (Score:4, Funny)
I thought Microsoft was trying to re-brand itself as a devices and services player. So, what does it mean when they bring on board a technical, enterprise guy as the CEO?
To me, it would seem that they're ignoring everything Apple has taught the industry -- usability, good design, and marketing.
Instead, they'll become the next IBM and be a large behemoth who just does enterprise tech "stuff".
Quite sad. And I'm pretty sure eventually they'll eventually spin off their Xbox division.
They should move away from consumer products (Score:5, Insightful)
"pivot to Devices and Services" -- That's Ballmerese for "doubling down on your core incompetencies"
Why is Microsoft trying so hard to compete against highly capable Apple and Google? It's a symptom of 15 years of typical Ballmerist "ooh, shiny.. gimme! I want one too!!!"?
They just aren't institutionally set up to do so.
Plan for incoming Microsoft CEO:
0) Assume your predecessor was wrong about everything until proven otherwise.
1) Halt the re-org until you know what you're doing.
2) in addition to "Devices and Services", how about, uh, ***Business Software***???? Now that I work in a mid-large company there is all sorts of ugly and junky application software whose capabilities and quality makes Microsoft Office seem like, oh, a properly-working HAL 9000.
Instead of throwing themselves up in a pathetic siege against highly capable, wealthy and motivated, Apple and Google, why not shoot for a much softer target: Oracle (other than the relational database). People hate them more than Microsoft and their products are poor.
Microsoft's primary focus should be "Diversified Business Software": there is a large range of software across many areas with much lower existing standard capability and quality than in the consumer market. MS has the scale to attack this heavily, could actually be good here, and make money consistently.
3) Windows. Oy vey. Microsoft will remain a primary business software company forever. Deal with it. So, a plan.
* Release Windows 7.5, backporting all the internal improvements of the Win 8 series which can fit, keeping the Win 7 interface. Expect all your business to upgrade to this, and skip Win 8. It will be the new XP, and you'll support it for at least a decade. Deal with it.
* Release Windows 8.5 with slightly-less bogosity, and lower your expectations.
* Much more seriously, go to the Research group and academia and work exceptionally hard to make a truly great, innovative, non-touch desktop interface, possibly including other physical input modalities (alternate mice, hardware, who knows?) Make Windows 9 (or 10) a really big deal. Not different for merely the sake of difference, but unmistakably GOOD. Recognize the physical realities of the world and humans.
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1) Halt the re-org until you know what you're doing.
That only makes sense for an outsider. If the choice is an insider, I'd assume he was driving the reorg from the beginning.
Release Windows 7.5, backporting all the internal improvements of the Win 8 series which can fit, keeping the Win 7 interface. Expect all your business to upgrade to this, and skip Win 8. It will be the new XP, and you'll support it for at least a decade. Deal with it.
I'm sure it will be called Windows 9 regardless, but yeah if he doesn't get that a phone needs a very different UI than a server, I'm not sure what could keep MS from arcing over into a long decline.
Much more seriously, go to the Research group and academia and work exceptionally hard to make a truly great, innovative ...
I haven't seen anything innovative on the UI side since Gates left. I'd love to see it again, but I suspect it would take a while to find that sort of talent again, and real managerial tal
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One of Microsofts many blunders has been discontinuing their workstation releases. After Windows 2000, they haven't released a workstation to go with their server versions. That's one big reason businesses have been balking at upgrading "consumer" OSes. Leave Windows 7, 8 etc for the consumer market and release Windows 2012/2014 Workstation!
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It's all the other lousy Oracle, and other enterprise vendor, software which I think Microsoft should make a go at. I am inflicted with Oracle corporate application software.
Message: put as much serious investment there as they do with Office, instead of making a me-four tablet and phone, a me-two search engine.
Microsoft always was, and always will be a Business Software company. It's time they got really good at it.
Office
Yes and no (Score:2)
Their goal should be: "How do we make a fantastic interface for a desktop operating system made for business software". And actually implement it. (I personally have some ideas with alternate mice). And write and sell that business software.
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"This Swiss army knife sucks because the blade is not as sharp or long as this one". Apple and Microsoft are different platforms; not every problem has a simple or elegant solution. Question: What would Mac be if Microsoft didn't release Office for Mac?
IBM Failed because they sold their business units one by one to China and without the hardware sales, they couldn't push software and services; companies wanted a complete package. HP, Dell, Acer, they all did the same thing. Management sold the companies
Re:Moving away from consumer products (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Moving away from consumer products (Score:4, Informative)
Since 2004, I have done 4 extensive searches on the Internet to look for valid comparisons between MySQL & PostgreSQL.
Each, and every time, PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org) came out ahead, in all areas that concern me - such as:
(1) Performance
(2) Reliability
(3) Scalability in terms of the database size
(4) Ease of installation & configuration
(5) Ease of developing SQL queries
And of course, it runs well on Linux!
I have a client that uses MySQL, and I did some DBA work & development on a major Java project that used MySQL.
So I would recommend PostgreSQL as being suitable for many projects. However, you should always check what a particular project needs, rather than assume one particular DB is best for it!
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MySQL is neither fast, scalable nor standard. I really don't understand what anyone sees in that piece of shit when at the very least they can have PostgreSQL which excels on all accounts and is open sourced. I blame popularity contests.
People use MySQL because it's very easy to get it running and integrated with PHP quickly on a cheap cpanel-based Linux host. For smaller websites, it's adequate. The problem comes when a startup website using MySQL becomes the next big thing – both Wikipedia and Fac
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Bingo.
I had developed on MySQL, Sybase, and Oracle professionally before I was exposed to MS SQL server.
SQL server is no joke. It gives you most of the enterprise features and power of Oracle, with none of the obtuse awful crap of Oracle. Even installing Oracle is a disaster.
The tools for SQL server are miles ahead of anything else, and incomparably better than what you can easily find for MySQL.
SQL server hits the sweet spot of being easy to use, easy to install, full featured, and very powerful. It's a
RE: MS SQL is a fork of Sybase (Score:2, Insightful)
They United States is a fork of England, and thus must be equivalent, yes?
MS SQL left Sybase in its dust a *long* time ago.
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Trend? (Score:3)
Seems like tech companies are trending towards ultraslim CEOs. Like literally dudes who look like they just stepped out of a concentration camp. I blame Apple :)
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An improvement from the "Chair in the Air" days, I suppose?
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Nope. Cloud guy is going to bring you "Windows as-a-service". First 2 years free updates, then PAY UP!
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Give the users what they want on the desktop. Give them what they loved about Windows 7 back and give it them for free. Maybe go so far as to offer a free copy of the previous version of Office to everyone who suffered through Windows 8.1 or 8.0.
Well if leaked screenshots of Windows 8.1 update 1 are true [twitter.com] as well as the boot to desktop which every tech site but slashdot mentioned is coming I would say MS is doing just that.
AngelWZR leaked Windows 8.1 screenshots too before other betas hit the web and is fairly reputable. That screenshot looked almost identical to Windows 7 but with the metro apps acting like regular applications in it.
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Well if leaked screenshots of Windows 8.1 update 1 are true [twitter.com] as well as the boot to desktop which every tech site but slashdot mentioned is coming I would say MS is doing just that.
Still no confirmation on a return of the real Start Menu. Still no return of Aero Glass transparency. Still no option to left-justify the title bar text, as was done on every OS from Win95 to Win7.
I don't care about the ability to run Metro apps in a window, since I don't ever want to see or interact with any Metro
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MS gives corp. network admins what they want on the desktop, not users.
If that were true, we would never have gotten Windows 8.
peace comes to microsoft (Score:1)
all the chairs at microsoft are taking a sigh of relief.
Finally (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft can Do The Needful.
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Please to be reverting the same if necessary and a ward point's if use full.
The Enterprise? (Score:2)
The enterprise remains a keyâ"perhaps the key â" customer segment for Microsoft
Really. Microsoft abandoned the enterprise market when they released Windows 7.
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So sick of this... (Score:3)
Microsoft's revenue from cloud services has grown by several billion over the past few years, so he's shown that he can expand a business.
This only proves the person was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Sure there is some skill and intelligence involved. but sitting in a chair and filing important sounding decisions while your market and revenue grow do not always imply competence.By that logic, in some respects Ballmer is a god.
From wikipedia:
Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue has surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income has increased 215 percent to $23 billion, and its gross profit of 75 cents on every dollar in sales is double that of Google or International Business Machines Corp.[20] In terms of leading the company's total annual profit growth, Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft (16.4 percent) has surpassed the performances of other well-known CEOs such as General Electric's Jack Welch (11.2 percent) and IBM's Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (2 percent).[18]
John Thompson as Chairman? (Score:4, Interesting)
Thoughts on all of this:
1. John Thompson (former Symantec CEO) as Chairman? Oh no. Symantec produced more steaming piles of crap called "software" than any company really has a right to. This wouldn't bode well.
2. People can say what they want about consumer devices, but enterprise software is worth LOTS of money. Having a guy like Nadella that understands a lot of the enterprise angle running things is a good idea. Yeah, you can sell people a phone (with a final cost of some $500), and a bunch of $1 and $2 applications, and some fraction of a $50 monthly cell bill. OR, you can sell them an OS for each computer in the place at a cost of $30-$50, an indispensable office suite for $150 per seat, client licenses for file servers, active directory, databases, web servers, and the like, PLUS the costly licenses for the server software, PLUS annual maintenance. It's easy to see where the cash is, and it's not in consumer devices.
3. I can see why people might prefer Windows 7 to Windows 8, but most of the time people are speaking from ignorance, never having used Windows 8 (or having used it only with a mouse). It's a different beast entirely with a touch screen. As for usability, Apple is on a downward slide, IMHO. We're getting nothing but gratuitous changes in every release now, and Mavericks positively ruined an otherwise serviceable 5-year-old MacBook by destroying its performance. Windows Phone 8 is really nice, especially in the way it emphasizes the productivity uses of the phone over games and glitz. It's a lot tighter resource-wise than Android for sure.
4. Microsoft spends like four times as much on R&D as Apple does. Apple's a rather minor player in this regard.
I think Microsoft could be positioned for a real resurgence with the right leadership.
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"can see why people might prefer Windows 7 to Windows 8, but most of the time people are speaking from ignorance, never having used Windows 8"
What? So, if Apple decided to put a full-screen-sized, DPI-scaled-down version of OS X onto iphones with minimal consideration for use without a mouse and keyboard, and wondered why people then hated using iPhones, "those people" would just be ignorant? After all, OS X is a great OS, why shouldn't it be great on an iPhone?
In reality, we'd call Ap
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The nice touchscreens resist oils on fingertips. Even my low-end Inspiron 14R laptop's touchscreen doesn't need a cleaning very often. It encourages me to wash my hands after eating the french fries, too. :)
Seriously, now that I've been using a touchscreen for a few weeks, it's WAY more natural than a mouse. Scroll bars? Feh. Reach out and touch that 3-D assembly and rotate it.
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Bullshit on the resistance to oils. There is no magic to make them go away. They can't do anything but sit there. It's just that some weirdos have hardly any oil on their skin. Probably no tears in their eyes or snot in their nose either. Fine for freaks of nature, sheesh. Not so great for the rest of us.
As for the fat ugly finger on the display: it is about the crudest instrument that can be imagined. A mouse pointer is just a much more precise "finger" on the display, one that can't smear. Any drag or ges
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Sorry, but there's a difference. Compare the high-end iPhones and Galaxy devices with their oil-resistant coatings to, say, an entry level Lumia 520. (I own the latter.) The entry-level Lumia lacks the coating, and it needs a daily cleaning. My wife's iPhone 4S needs it only after a sloppy toddler coats it with spaghetti sauce or yogurt.
You're right that gestures aren't always very precise. A finger is bigger than a 2-pixel point on an arrow driven by a mouse. Yet the touchscreen allows for direct manipulat
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well if you read his comment, even in his comment he mentioned that they do not in fact resist oils since he's washing his hands more often and if there's any oil(french fries) then it's scruffy..
he just likes his touchscreen for now, give his wrists 1.5 years..
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That's never happened to me, not even once.
Ok, I believe you. So? All it means is that Win 8 fails erratically.
Also, I never use the bulit-in photo viewer.
So your argument in favor of Win 8 is that if you purchase enough software and replace enough of it it can be made not to suck. That's an endorsement.
They sell something other than exchange? (Score:2)
Three Microsoft things I hear about the least, SkyDrive, Azure, and Office 365. Does Microsoft's "Cloud and Enterprise division" equate to Hyper-V?
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Two things I hear about the least: Active Directory and Exchange. Those are Microsoft's core products.
Azure is Microsoft's response to Amazon elastic compute. Skydrive...for most people, is a Dropbox knock-off. Office 365 (again: for most people) is a blatant attempt to extract more revenue from Office. Active directory? Best in class? Exchange...what else are you going to use? Lotus Notes? POP3 mail and paper calendars?
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Skydrive (soon to be OneDrive, after their settlement with Sky Network) is more than a Dropbox knockoff. It's more similar to Google Drive. Namely, it's an online storage area for documents that aren't tied to a particular computer. Edit that Word document on your Windows Phone? Save it to Skydrive, and it'll magically appear on your tablet or desktop.
Office 365 is just following in the steps (or alongside of) Adobe in offering a continual-pricing model. You get all the upgrades, and the up-front price is c
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They're all NFS with a bag on the side. Now get off my lawn!
Let's Hear It For More of the Same! (Score:4, Interesting)
DIE SLASHDOT BI DIE (Score:2)
Just posting agian to complain about Slashdot/dice posting links to Buisness Intelligence. Terrible. Horrible. Absolutely hate it with all my being. Stop actually trying to write terrible articles and focus on your core strengths: editing story summaries terribly.
Outsourcing (Score:2)
I have to wonder what will happen to their outsourcing efforts if a person from India is made CEO? Microsoft already has well over 10,000 jobs outsourced to India as it is now? That being said their enterprise division generally seems to be run much more competently than their other divisions and he may well be the best candidate for the job.
See, slashdot is a crap now (Score:1)
Back in the days, a few microsofties who worked with/for this guy would chime in with some interesting observation.
Now? It's all bullshit comments, including this one by me.
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Back in the days, a few microsofties who worked with/for this guy would chime in with some interesting observation.
Can you show a Slashdot Windows article and comments from the past that represents what you would like Slashdot to be today?
People often have golden memories about what Slashdot used to be, but when you actually start reading the old threads again, it's mostly the same stuff as of today.
He used to run Bing. (Score:2)
Nadella used to run Bing. Bing had a leadership vacuum after he left (and still does), but it didn't do all that great while he was there.
Microsoft's approach to Bing upper management is very strange. Microsoft sends people there, but you never hear about them while they're there. You hear about them after they're promoted to better parts of Microsoft. Mark Penn was brought in to turn around Bing, and accomplished little there. Now he heads Microsoft Advertising. Qi Lu ran Bing for a while, and now he's
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Bing apparently had a leadership vacuum while he was leading it.
Who would have guessed (Score:2)
Who would have guessed that Billg lacks the balls to bring in an outsider and instead will name yet another tired old insider retread to the job. Here is hoping that the fail is massive, even eclipsing Ballmer.
Nadella understands enterprise? How do we know? (Score:2)
Come to think of it, besides being the titular guy in charge of it, how do we know that Nadella understands enterprise?
I'm just being too lazy to look, but shouldn't there be signs that he's not just a figurehead? You know, memos, presentations, letters to the public or to the staff. Anything?
Why not Elop? (Score:4, Funny)
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That should be as..... (Score:1)
Geeks not exempt from racism (Score:1)
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Who cares?
Well you would care if you lost your job due to the H1B scam. After all, we have a shortage of skilled programmers in the americas right? Oh we don't...
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Find me this mythical person if he exists. We need to cut him open and find out the part of his brain that doesn't exist or has atrophied in the rest of the electorate's brains.
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You realize that at a company like Microsoft, where salaries are managed from the top down... H1Bs not only tend to make the same as natural born American employees.. but can actually cost more as it is usually the sponsoring company who pays for the lawyers & paperwork & fees to get an H1B visa for the eventual employee, right?
The above being said by a white, natural born American who works at a high tech company who is one of those who is attacked for using H1Bs, and who detests racists like you w
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You realize that at a company like Microsoft, where salaries are managed from the top down... H1Bs not only tend to make the same as natural born American employees.. but can actually cost more as it is usually the sponsoring company who pays for the lawyers & paperwork & fees to get an H1B visa for the eventual employee, right?
You are thinking small scale. It's not about the cost to a small company or department. H1Bs threaten to lower wages across the board due to plentiful competition, less ability to move to another company, and allowing company HR to threaten someone else taking your job. Some of the savings then go to board members of large corporations, to political lobbying, and to shareholder profits.