...He is planning on making windows Azure the platform that runs the internet, and making a ton of revenue that way...
Their only hope is to bulldoze the Windows servers and put in nice Linux clusters like everybody else. Otherwise, the inevitable result will be high comedy. Except for those unfortunate victims who decide to throw their corporate fortunes in with Microsoft's big system expertise.
I was saddened to see Ballmer go. I felt that all the Microsoft toadies richly deserved him. It would have been nice to see him go down with the ship, but I knew in my heart what rats do when the water starts rising. I sincerely hope that Nadella proves himself fully worthy to fill Ballmer's clown shoes.
-7.5% compound annual growth rate is massive, especially considering the growth rate of smartphones, tablets and chromeos. And that is not even taking into account the likelihood of productivity apps showing up on chromeos and android to further accelerate the trend. IDC's numbers are basically just talking about people who defect because they care more about media consumption than spreadsheets. That's a relatively small hole in the Windows bucket compared to having the whole bottom fall out when Android moves into the office.
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Also, consumer (and mass storage) grade 7200 rpm drives have significantly lower power surge than 15K drives.
Microsoft security, the gift that just keeps on giving. Note the elapsed times between vulnerability publication and update.
...He is planning on making windows Azure the platform that runs the internet, and making a ton of revenue that way...
Their only hope is to bulldoze the Windows servers and put in nice Linux clusters like everybody else. Otherwise, the inevitable result will be high comedy. Except for those unfortunate victims who decide to throw their corporate fortunes in with Microsoft's big system expertise.
They were strongly pushing portable .NET...
I thought that .NET was dead. Does anybody really know?
I was saddened to see Ballmer go. I felt that all the Microsoft toadies richly deserved him. It would have been nice to see him go down with the ship, but I knew in my heart what rats do when the water starts rising. I sincerely hope that Nadella proves himself fully worthy to fill Ballmer's clown shoes.
Nothing about Microsoft has changed except its PR spin. It remains the same morally bankrupt skofflaw monopolist it has always been. Puff piece.
+1 informative.
Regarding the background: that is an incredibly high-speed camera, being rotated at a very high speed (think "on a spring")...
Most probably multiple cameras, prepositioned and synchronized.
...there are plenty of things that burn without oxygen simply because there are lots of other oxidizers...
I do not think that the word "oxidizer" means what you think it does.
...A plane just isn't going to survive those forces yet.
William Gibson suggested mounting it in a blimp. Who cares about the blimp?
Producing them cheaply enough to rival chips made of processed sand is another matter entirely....
So we move on to processed coal, seems cheap to me.
Maybe it all just dropped through to the other side.
I have an entire wishlist for Satya here, and cleaning up the OOXML fiasco is one of them.
Perhaps you forget that billg still pulls his strings.
Never mind that OOXML is only fraudulently open.
Red Hat has nothing to do with ODF.
Neither do Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter or Samsung. Shameful.
Your geek card is hereby rescinded.
I don't really see how productivity apps on tablets can replace actual PCs running actual business software within a corporate environment...
What makes you think Android isn't going to spread to laptops and desktops? Or Chromeos isn't going to get proper application support?
-7.5% compound annual growth rate is massive, especially considering the growth rate of smartphones, tablets and chromeos. And that is not even taking into account the likelihood of productivity apps showing up on chromeos and android to further accelerate the trend. IDC's numbers are basically just talking about people who defect because they care more about media consumption than spreadsheets. That's a relatively small hole in the Windows bucket compared to having the whole bottom fall out when Android moves into the office.
It actually sounds like gcj.
...all except for that pesky near 90% desktop market share
The desktop market that declined 10% last year, a trend that is expected to continue?
Translation: London Council trying to extort cheaper licenses out of Microsoft.
Cognitive dissonance alert. Cheaper licenses for XP?
Not by itself, you also need to look at the From: header.
KDE 4 is great except for Akonadi, which killed Kmail.
He became a vp at Goldman Sachs. Where I suppose he fits in well.
Let me guess, you also think that drinking a lot of soda pop will not make you fat?