No, it's a joke. The only variable is how much of a joke. With all the JIT knobs turned to 11, Java only manages 50-75% of the performance of C++ with a recent compiler, and that is not even counting the suckage of the JIT firing up.
They're attempting to exploit our herd mentality in order to hide their weakness; if enough of us can be fooled into thinking that IIS is more popular than it actually is, then more people will switch to it or stick with it for that reason alone.
I'm confused by the plan, layoffs or not. PC peddling is a sunset business, that horse will not get up and run again. Lenovo will grab whatever life is left in the business, squashing Dell.
in a company that is strictly a technocracy (and that comes from Bill himself), a non-technical outsider would be derided and would have a very tough time.
An indication on Nadella's "rating" from a business perspective will be reflected by the MS share quotation tomorrow.
Why wait till tomorrow? MSFT lost $2 yesterday on the reliable leak. But make no mistake, that no confidence vote was about Gates, not Nadella, who nobody cares about.
Microsoft has been floundering for the past decade, riding the momentum they built up in the 80's and 90's but never successfully adding to it.
And Microsoft's conception of "adding to it" is always "extend the Windows monopoly into new markets". Which is why they flushed $8 billion down the toilet trying to establish a console monopoly, and Sony just came back to own the segment this generation anyway so MSFT never will get its money back. And then Steam defected, so Microsoft is now in danger of losing control of the PC game franchise that it stupidly left to rot when it tried to dominate the console turf. Just Brilliant. The winners in this were couch potatoes who got cheap hardware, well not that cheap and kind of crappy, but a little bit cheaper than a PC. Oh, and maybe the games industry will return to health with the Microsoft monkey off its back.
Because he would sink the ship, as he did with Nokia.
I suspect the Nadella-Gates team will do almost as well. Can hardly wait for this one actually, can't wait for Billg to show the world what kind of genius he actually is. You know what? Top interns love being humiliated, this will do wonders attracting them versus mundane opportunities like Google, Facebook or Twitter.
In a desperate search for relevance, Linux Foundation PHBs once again state the obvious. Better they should keep quiet and just keep paying Linus's paycheque.
This kind of thing happens on a regular basis and is usually due to Microsoft making backroom deals with operators of parked domains, probably not paying in cash but in Windows license discounts for servers or hosting. Borderline illegal and classic Microsoft - don't ever be fooled into thinking that Microsoft has gotten itself a corporate personality transplant. The active sites graph tells the real story: Microsoft continues to languish. It is beyond me why Microsoft is so fixated on manipulating Netcraft stats.
Your story is pure revisionism. Bitkeeper blew up because the proprietor keep changing the license terms to be more draconian, which everybody knew would happen except Linus.
He has on occasion really pissed people off by going overboard with the "pragmatism" which degenerated into a huge mess with the Bitkeeper fiasco for example. Didn't believe the warnings he got. Eventually bailed his rep out out by coming up with Git, but that doesn't mean he wasn't just acting stupid at the time, in fact that is arguably where the Git name comes from.
Linus attacking the FSF all the time is hard to explain and tends to come across as petty rivalry. As good a demonstration as any that Linus isn't perfect.
Your post does not have the ring of truth. I have been using open source Radeon drivers for years, without issue. Performance is good enough that the pain of switching back to binary never seems worth it.
Slashdot Mirror
Now it's the new COBOL.
No, it's a joke. The only variable is how much of a joke. With all the JIT knobs turned to 11, Java only manages 50-75% of the performance of C++ with a recent compiler, and that is not even counting the suckage of the JIT firing up.
They're attempting to exploit our herd mentality in order to hide their weakness; if enough of us can be fooled into thinking that IIS is more popular than it actually is, then more people will switch to it or stick with it for that reason alone.
The big lie, right? Oh is that a godwin...
Probably because it costs them exactly $0 to do it.
Really? What about the team of thugs assigned to do the job, and associated hangers on?
I'm confused by the plan, layoffs or not. PC peddling is a sunset business, that horse will not get up and run again. Lenovo will grab whatever life is left in the business, squashing Dell.
His first official act should be to apologize for Windows 8...
Ha ha, you're right, and when he doesn't do it you can pretty much predict the rest of the story.
in a company that is strictly a technocracy (and that comes from Bill himself), a non-technical outsider would be derided and would have a very tough time.
It's not a technocary, it's a backbiteocracy.
I was not disappointed.
Me neither, it's not about the unknown guy, it's about the return of Gates. Can't wait to watch him destroy Microsoft the rest of the way.
An indication on Nadella's "rating" from a business perspective will be reflected by the MS share quotation tomorrow.
Why wait till tomorrow? MSFT lost $2 yesterday on the reliable leak. But make no mistake, that no confidence vote was about Gates, not Nadella, who nobody cares about.
Microsoft has been floundering for the past decade, riding the momentum they built up in the 80's and 90's but never successfully adding to it.
And Microsoft's conception of "adding to it" is always "extend the Windows monopoly into new markets". Which is why they flushed $8 billion down the toilet trying to establish a console monopoly, and Sony just came back to own the segment this generation anyway so MSFT never will get its money back. And then Steam defected, so Microsoft is now in danger of losing control of the PC game franchise that it stupidly left to rot when it tried to dominate the console turf. Just Brilliant. The winners in this were couch potatoes who got cheap hardware, well not that cheap and kind of crappy, but a little bit cheaper than a PC. Oh, and maybe the games industry will return to health with the Microsoft monkey off its back.
If this is sinking, what does success look like?
Success looks like the Titanic not hitting an iceberg.
Because he would sink the ship, as he did with Nokia.
I suspect the Nadella-Gates team will do almost as well. Can hardly wait for this one actually, can't wait for Billg to show the world what kind of genius he actually is. You know what? Top interns love being humiliated, this will do wonders attracting them versus mundane opportunities like Google, Facebook or Twitter.
The open source projects with most bugs and slowest development time are the ones without proper sponsors.
I know, right? Take Samba for example... oh wait.
In a desperate search for relevance, Linux Foundation PHBs once again state the obvious. Better they should keep quiet and just keep paying Linus's paycheque.
This kind of thing happens on a regular basis and is usually due to Microsoft making backroom deals with operators of parked domains, probably not paying in cash but in Windows license discounts for servers or hosting. Borderline illegal and classic Microsoft - don't ever be fooled into thinking that Microsoft has gotten itself a corporate personality transplant. The active sites graph tells the real story: Microsoft continues to languish. It is beyond me why Microsoft is so fixated on manipulating Netcraft stats.
Your story is pure revisionism. Bitkeeper blew up because the proprietor keep changing the license terms to be more draconian, which everybody knew would happen except Linus.
You're talking about a ten year old chip at 110 nm, right? Seriously playing games on it?
Whoa, suggesting that Linus isn't perfect gets a down mod? I would suggest that some mod isn't perfect.
He believes in high standards, but never goes out-of-bounds into silly land.
Never?
He has on occasion really pissed people off by going overboard with the "pragmatism" which degenerated into a huge mess with the Bitkeeper fiasco for example. Didn't believe the warnings he got. Eventually bailed his rep out out by coming up with Git, but that doesn't mean he wasn't just acting stupid at the time, in fact that is arguably where the Git name comes from.
Maybe if those FSF types had spent more time innovating and creating a product people want then people might actually use Free Software,
*cough* *cough* Gcc, Libc, etc etc *cough* *cough*
Linus attacking the FSF all the time is hard to explain and tends to come across as petty rivalry. As good a demonstration as any that Linus isn't perfect.
Your post does not have the ring of truth. I have been using open source Radeon drivers for years, without issue. Performance is good enough that the pain of switching back to binary never seems worth it.
Wow, 10% more memory usage is significant in my books. Maybe that's just me. No wonder nobody cares about light and tight any more.
It took a little getting used to at first, but after a week of using it daily, I found it quite easy to work with.
Android is easy to work with the first day, what's your point?