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AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
buzzwords-first


microsoft should hire jesters
just people who can say whatever the gently caress they want to anyone at the company
the only people who seem to be convinced by their vast lovely pr efforts are the people at the top of ms

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Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

AtomD posted:

buzzwords-first


microsoft should hire jesters
just people who can say whatever the gently caress they want to anyone at the company
the only people who seem to be convinced by their vast lovely pr efforts are the people at the top of ms

cloun first. clounmobile first.

gnrk
Apr 1, 2008

im the sanic in the top left

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

PleasureKevin posted:

word count:

more: 40
experiences: 23
work: 23
cloud: 22
life: 20
productivity: 20
devices: 17

actual things:

windows: 13
xbox: 5
office: 2
phone(2): 2
kinect: 1
nokia: 1
tvs: 1
word: 1
excel: 1

what about "platform"? :ohdear:

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

if this

quote:

every team across Microsoft must find ways to simplify and move faster, more efficiently. We will increase the fluidity of information and ideas by taking actions to flatten the organization and develop leaner business processes. Culture change means we will do things differently. Often people think that means everyone other than them. In reality, it means all of us taking a new approach and working together to make Microsoft better. To this end, I've asked each member of the Senior Leadership Team to evaluate opportunities to advance their innovation processes and simplify their operations and how they work
actually happens it will mean a lot of resumes with "10 years of .NET and project management" on them floating around

Twenty-Seven
Jul 6, 2008

I'm so tired
i found out yesterday that microsoft makes a mouse with a loving start button/windows key on it and i'm still fuming

a loving mouse with a start button on it

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Twenty-Seven posted:

i found out yesterday that microsoft makes a mouse with a loving start button/windows key on it and i'm still fuming

a loving mouse with a start button on it

so does it just not do anything in windows 8

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

computer parts posted:

so does it just not do anything in windows 8
lol

actually; wasn't that mouse actually specifically designed for Win8 and the surface or something?

Twenty-Seven
Jul 6, 2008

I'm so tired
it makes me depressed to think about how many man-hours and design revisions and stupid meetings and chinese labor and crude material logistics and loving ... big cargo ship ... gas went into creating a product that is literally a piece of garbage, a mouse with a windows key on it.

and like every single person working on it had to know how worthless it was the entire time they had to help make it ugh it's just depressing

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

tell me it plays that rolling stones song

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


Best viewed on Orgasma Plasma
Lipstick Apathy
that a pretty negative attitude to have towards job creators

minivanmegafun
Jul 27, 2004

I just want a release of Lync for the Mac that doesn't suck

it's a running joke between our engineering team and or prod ops team (me) about how terrible it is, but it's the only "sanctioned" choice to use during our deployments. it's just a constant string of random nonsensical errors spammed to everyone if anyone drops offline, followed by direct ims asking to be pulled back into the chat room because Lync crashed. again. also accidentally triggered video chats that have a habit of dumping everyone's session. and a bunch of buttons that when clicked just say they don't work in group chat.

ok that's my story about the one Microsoft product I use on a regular basis. I think whatever is left of MacBU has been thrown into a pit.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Fabricated posted:

lol

actually; wasn't that mouse actually specifically designed for Win8 and the surface or something?

windows 8 mouse thing


regular rear end mouse with start button

Squinty Applebottom
Jan 1, 2013

i like how microsoft goes for a more human, kawaii approach versus apple cold aluminum meme

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

well I can't loving wait for July 22

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

reading this is loving torture for the mind

MeruFM
Jul 27, 2010

Pinterest Mom posted:

windows 8 mouse thing


regular rear end mouse with start button


yes

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

here, i made it shorter


The work over the past year makes me proud and energized.

I said before that innovation trumps tradition, and we must rediscover ourselves to grow, innovate and change the world. This is our boldest job ever.

Today I’ll reveal the plan, and we’ll take July to talk about it more, particularly on July 22nd after releasing our earnings results. The top executives will discuss the engineering and organizational changes in detail, and we’ll build on it at MGX and //oneweek.

Our Worldview

The world is focused on mobile and cloud, and online devices span the globe. But with nearly unlimited computing power comes a lack of human attention. There are opportunities in this connected world, and Microsoft is expected to seize it while preserving values.

We’ll have the broadest impact by creating new ways to interact with computers securely, so people may thrive.

Our Core

We’ve called ourselves a “devices and services” company because we were founded to put a PC in every office and home, but we can define our strategy more.

Our core is a productivity and platform company that helps users achieve more in this mobile/cloud world. Since we’re all so connected digitally, we have to think different to solve complex problems. Things like recipes, budgets and writing poetry; things we’ve been helping with for years. Or helping cure HIV or text-to-speech.

With this unique foundation, we’ll reinvent productivity for this world, harmoniously across devices.

We’ll build solutions that go beyond office productivity, tools that are predictive, personal and helpful. This will span all our work. As each user has work and personal lives, we’ll make secure products for both, including time management, collaboration, meeting, search and research services. And our partners can extend upon our experiences, and it will span all we do.

Cortana, Delve and Power Q&A help people in new ways. We’ll create more apps that help to easily find, try and buy across many ecosystems, keeping people at the center. This is a change in progress in Skype, Office, Bing and more. And all these will become more connected together.

CloudOS: We’re one of the strongest in cloud, and we’ll build more cohesive solutions than before. This means richer, more secure experiences for IT and employees using BYOD and Saas. We’ll innovate in identity and directory services, data storage, analytics, machine learning, media, web and mobile backend, developer productivity services and more.

The cloud OS will run all Microsoft services, professional and personal, and allow developer extensions.

Device OS and Hardware: Our great, secure user experience will set the bar on phones, tablets, laptops, TV’s and giant 82-inch PPI boards, benefiting developers and powering more devices.

I also want to talk about Xbox. Gaming is the largest digital-life category, and we’ll keep growing the great Xbox brand with new interfaces and cloud gaming.

We define mobile by experience, not devices.

Our Culture

We’re equally ambitious to evolve our culture. We’ll do anything to shift it, like change job responsibilities, form new partnerships, build skills and hire people. All are expected to take part and focus on customers, from engineering to marketing.

Through less management, more accountability and access to Data and Applied Sciences tools, we’ll lower development time and please customers more. The next 6 months will see new training in these processes, and you’ll be able to move and grow around the company.

This flatter organizational structure will make us leaner and faster, and take seize this opportunity. And the change happens in the individual.

"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Peace out.

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
im the professional power user with multiple devices powered by cloud service-based apps spanning work and life.

thx for thinkin about me satya

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

Xbox One, outsold 2 to One

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Pinterest Mom posted:

windows 8 mouse thing


regular rear end mouse with start button


which one catches fire and comes preloaded with illegal pornography

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Mission Statement posted:

Putting clients first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibilities and leveraging profitability towards exceeding by empowering our employees to put clients (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first.

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

graph posted:

are you on a magic triangle or purely open directory?


reminder that 10.7.3 broke ad binding completely, lol

i've done both

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

Shaggar posted:

that never actually happens without the admin loving something up. every time someone says "BWAHHHHH windows update hosed me!" its someone trying to hide their incompetence.

remember that time SCCM updated and hosed itself so bad that if you git hit by the update you had to go and touch and rebind all the machines on the network?

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

shaggar was wrong

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Melman v2
Netbooks are fuckin' back and you know it because cheap windows laptops are too

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/14/5897641/microsoft-launches-a-price-assault-on-chromebooks



"Microsoft is aiming straight for Google’s Chromebooks this holiday season. At the company’s partner conference today, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner revealed that HP is planning to release a $199 laptop running Windows for the holidays. Turner didn’t provide specifications for HP’s "Stream" device, but he did detail $249 laptop options from Acer and Toshiba. Acer’s low-cost laptop will ship with a 15.6-inch screen and a 2.16GHz Intel Celeron processor, and Toshiba’s includes a 11.6-inch display. It appears that Intel’s Celeron chips will help Microsoft’s PC partners push out cheaper devices in the race to the bottom."

pram
Jun 10, 2001
lol

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010



http://www.geekwire.com/2014/microsoft-exec-admits-new-reality-market-share-longer-90-14/

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Cardboard Box A posted:

Netbooks are fuckin' back and you know it because cheap windows laptops are too

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/14/5897641/microsoft-launches-a-price-assault-on-chromebooks



a laptop that doubles in price when paired with a "works great with" office license?

and can run desktop apps when microsoft's last entry in the space (with windows rt) couldn't?

pram
Jun 10, 2001
it can print!!!!!!!

pram
Jun 10, 2001
printing the killer app of 2k14

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
"It's off the hook," he said.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
14% marketshare is off the chain fuckin sicknasty gnarly

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

AtomD posted:

hey guys shout out to the bing team for making the best porn search engine
whens the last time a ms product gave someone a boner heheh

your ceo

haha

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

pram posted:

printing the killer app of 2k14

:rip: printer-carrying goon

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

pram posted:

printing the killer app of 2k14

i like how the big ideas for msft are things apple could just stop intentionally making hard with 0 effort in response to

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

pram posted:

it can print!!!!!!!

tbf, the surface rt can print to most printers too. microsoft ported p much all of the print drivers that ship with windows

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Melman v2

univbee posted:

a laptop that doubles in price when paired with a "works great with" office license?

and can run desktop apps when microsoft's last entry in the space (with windows rt) couldn't?
Office 365 only $50 with the purchase of one of these windows netbooks!

(Only for the first year)

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Sniep posted:

i like how the big ideas for msft are things apple could just stop intentionally making hard with 0 effort in response to

requiring airprint for 100% print compatibility and zero-config printing isn't really making things hard for anyone but poo poo-tier printer manufacturers

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

New SKUs already hitting the ground!*

*available this holiday season

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