I see weâre still worshiping productivity. I thought we were past that.
Wait, what are we worshipping today?
Moloch. Line up the kids.
Wouldnât it be fun if Microsoft bluescreened, rebooted, bluescreened, rebooted again⌠over and over until the end of time, like a server after a botched patch?
It rightfully belongs to MicroSoft? Is that some sort of god given right they had which has been illegally usurped by Apple? Itâs revealing that MicroSoftâs attitude is that itâs somehow rightfully theirs, even though theyâve done nothing to earn it lately. People arenât lining up to buy their phones, or their tablets, or even Windows based PCâs, but somehow weâre denying their inherent right to sell us stuff? I had no idea my Linux machine or my iPhone were somehow infringing on MicroSoftâs god given rights.
Well, their âmanifest destinyâ allowed them to âborrow liberallyâ from their early partnership with Apple, inspiring Windows. And somehow, the M$ pundits have always been very smug about how much CP/M, Apple, VMS, Linux, etc. suck - due to Microsoft trying to steal all of their ideas.
But, to give them some credit, Microsoft seem to have had decent support and something like clear maps of the lifecycles of their products! Apple has often had great new technologies to hype, but when they donât take off, early adopters are left in the cold once Appleâs selective amnesia kicks in. Quâest-ce que⌠Hypercard? Geoport? Cyberdog? Appleshare? Lots of them arenât killed off, but go from hype storm to a slow protracted death with little support: Dashboard, Quicktime, Quartz Composer, etc. M$ might kind of suck, but they seem to be more clear with developers and customers where they stand. Which reminds me!
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
(Iâll show myself outâŚ) XD
Microsoft should work on the sub $40USD phone for the developing world. Mozilla is clearly not up to the task.
Wait - Iâll just ask the Popular Peopleâs Front for Productivity Reinvention. Before those bastards at the Peopleâs Popular Front for Reproducing Invention mislead you.
I think the new Win10 stuff about merging codebases for Phone, Desktop and Tablet but maintaining a better UI for desktop is a good step forward. That being said, ARM took off because of battery reasons, so hopefully we can figure out how to merge x86 code without wrecking that.
I work at MS and Iâm pretty positive about the future of the company in general. Iâve seen Satya in person a few times (from a distance of course) and he is a really nice guy and he gets software in a pretty fundamental way. I think those are both good things. The layoffs Iâm not as happy about, but Iâm also not in a place to cast an effective judgment on it.
They still think they are king of the mountain and as such must have total control over all the computers. My reply to that is âBite Me!â
You can tell Rob is really excited because he used a period.
When heâs feeling meh he skips punctuation and capitalization entirely.
If heâs negative, heâll blog in Esperanto.
Rob used an exclamation point once. Once.
Theyâre still trying to see how far down into the mantle the servers melted.
In before the M$-bashing starts.
MSâs monopoly is ended so they will be increasingly irrelevant.
Too late. (Not that itâs uncalled for, yâknow.)
This staggering drop occurred not because Microsoft lost ground in
personal computers, on which its software still dominates, but rather
because it has failed to adapt its products to smartphones, where all
the growth is, and tablets.
Theyâre not going anywhere. At least until next year, because thatâs when Linux on the Desktop is finally going to take off, right?
So somehow, IE is up to the task where firefox failed? Trippy.
(Ok not failed, just⌠whatevs)
âWhy would you use Visual Studio when thereâs Emacs?!!â
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Ackshually, I use Emacs for everything except .NET coding.
So if we want more relevance in the world, we need more monopolies? No thanks.
What do you mean âtake offâ? Itâs been around for yearsâŚ
