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lol @ Thurrott publishing like 20 articles about Chredge last week.
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thurrott did an AMA
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Apr 15, 2019 13:39
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paul, what's it like to keep exposing your wangus to the entire internet
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Apr 15, 2019 13:43
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i thought surely someone would cover it in this thread
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Apr 15, 2019 15:39
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pleasure us, kevin
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Apr 15, 2019 15:45
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PleasureKevin posted:i thought surely someone would cover it in this thread why would anyone care? thurrot is not funny even in an ironic way
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Apr 15, 2019 15:46
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like, it'd be neat for posting purposes if he was the msft gruber, but he is really just super dry and usually measured, about already really boring stuff
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Apr 15, 2019 15:49
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Hey, he just published two new articles about Edge! His audience must love these.
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Apr 15, 2019 16:28
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:like, it'd be neat for posting purposes if he was the msft gruber, but he is really just super dry and usually measured, about already really boring stuff read the room
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Apr 15, 2019 18:27
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:paul, what's it like to keep exposing your wangus to the entire internet i thought that was leo laporte
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Apr 15, 2019 19:45
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lol poo poo you're right
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Apr 16, 2019 20:16
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i mean, it was always possible that they'd both done it. i'm sure for a middle aged man with a moderately successful tech media career it becomes asymptotically difficult to keep from broadcasting your dingus to all and sundry infernal machines fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Apr 16, 2019 23:06
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after the whole plan leaking 3 weeks ago microsoft has unveiled the xbox one s all digital which somehow costs more [$250] than an xbox one s with an optical drive and bundled game
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Apr 16, 2019 23:40
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qirex posted:after the whole plan leaking 3 weeks ago microsoft has unveiled the xbox one s all digital which somehow costs more [$250] than an xbox one s with an optical drive and bundled game Are the spinners 5400s? Fake E: of course they are! 
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Apr 16, 2019 23:51
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didn't they originally introduce the xbone s as $250? why the gently caress didn't they drop it by $50 or more?
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Apr 16, 2019 23:56
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microsoft games' current plan is to get as many people to sign up for monthly subscriptions as possible [they made a new $15 one today that combines xbox live and gamepass] then pivot to mobile and hope it sticks
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Apr 17, 2019 00:01
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psoting on page 219
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Apr 17, 2019 00:51
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Millstone posted:psoting I wish I were cool enough to poast on page 219. 
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Apr 17, 2019 00:54
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qirex posted:microsoft games' current plan is to get as many people to sign up for monthly subscriptions as possible [they made a new $15 one today that combines xbox live and gamepass] then pivot to mobile and hope it sticks a Microsoft pivot to mobile has never failed!
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Apr 17, 2019 00:56
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qirex posted:microsoft games' current plan is to get as many people to sign up for monthly subscriptions as possible qirex posted:then pivot to mobile and hope it sticks
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Apr 17, 2019 01:05
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Schadenboner posted:I wish I were cool enough to poast on page 219. same
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Apr 17, 2019 01:15
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Fiedler posted:correct so they’re going to waste another few bil launching new hardware that nobody wants
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Apr 17, 2019 03:29
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the only microsoft pivot that has stuck is pivot tables
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Apr 17, 2019 03:30
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qirex posted:so they’re going to waste another few bil launching new hardware that nobody wants it costing billions to r&d putting an amd apu in a plastic shell is a mythological idea created only for console advertising purposes (well, sony managed to spend some ridiculous amount on the ps2 and 3, but those are probably the only really expensive-to-design consoles to have ever existed). while they are losing this generation in gamer terms (where the singular who who is "winning" is very important) they've sold >40 million of the things, and have very likely made a lot of money. like, don't buy one, it seems clear-cut that if you want that sort of thing the ps4 is the better option, and i'd suggest a switch first, but i really don't think microsoft is dropping any part of their current strategy in a next generation.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:it costing billions to r&d putting an amd apu in a plastic shell is a mythological idea created only for console advertising purposes (well, sony managed to spend some ridiculous amount on the ps2 and 3, but those are probably the only really expensive-to-design consoles to have ever existed). while they are losing this generation in gamer terms (where the singular who who is "winning" is very important) they've sold >40 million of the things, and have very likely made a lot of money.
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Apr 17, 2019 15:04
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qirex posted:they spent over a billion just on marketing for the xbone, when you have a couple thousand people working on something the costs add up pretty quickly. the xbone isn't a total disaster but it still has to compete with the other divisions at microsoft for budget and the return on xbox investment is apparently so unimpressive they've feel the need to conceal it in their financials for the last 3 years there's some truth to what you say, but i think this makes a better case for getting out of the gaming business than some strategic switch to being all-mobile/streaming (where they'd really have to do much of the same stuff just without the hw team). the xbone is not *very* successful, but it is still sort of a cornerstone to doing anything in the space. it should also be noted that it is cheaper for microsoft than for most to do a console like that, since the software and dev tools are mostly stuff they already have either way. i really couldn't care less if they kill the xbone though, have no horse in that race.
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Apr 17, 2019 15:49
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New article on Chredge from Thurrott: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/microsoft-edge/205216/living-on-the-new-edge-reading
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Apr 17, 2019 17:50
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honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if xbox runs at a loss, lets microsoft push brand awareness and collect data on a demographic it may not otherwise have easy access to
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Apr 17, 2019 18:21
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I think they have plenty of data on the people who shout racist poo poo into the internet
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Apr 17, 2019 22:25
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The xbox one sad is just an xbox one S without the optical drive, same case and all with an empty hole inside and unused sata port: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoYOuDikNc&t=390s
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Apr 17, 2019 23:37
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isn’t the selling point of the Xbox One S support for 4K UHD Blu-rays?
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Apr 18, 2019 00:21
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Yeah, it does 4k hdr videos/streaming and blu-ray, and uses hdr for games.
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Apr 18, 2019 00:24
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pseudorandom name posted:isn’t the selling point of the Xbox One S support for 4K UHD Blu-rays?
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Apr 18, 2019 01:12
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qirex posted:they spent over a billion just on marketing for the xbone, when you have a couple thousand people working on something the costs add up pretty quickly. the xbone isn't a total disaster but it still has to compete with the other divisions at microsoft for budget and the return on xbox investment is apparently so unimpressive they've feel the need to conceal it in their financials for the last 3 years go read the 10Q. "[For the Six Months Ended December 31, 2018 compared with the Six Months Ended December 31, 2017] Gaming revenue increased $1.2 billion or 20%, driven by Xbox software and services growth of 33%, primarily due to third-party title strength, offset in part by a decline in Xbox hardware of 4%"
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Apr 18, 2019 01:47
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yeah they used to show net profit/loss for xbox but now they just show gross revenue
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Apr 18, 2019 02:02
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xbox isn't special in that regard. for the whole company they only report operating income for the three segment buckets (Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, More Personal Computing). you won't find, for example, how much SQL Server made or lost.
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Apr 18, 2019 02:19
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Fiedler posted:you won't find, for example, how much SQL Server made or lost. if people saw how much they were making on sql server there might be more pressure to reduce their licencing fees
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Apr 18, 2019 07:14
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pseudorandom name posted:isn’t the selling point of the Xbox One S support for 4K UHD Blu-rays? now speaking of dying markets
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Apr 18, 2019 08:50
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Fiedler posted:xbox isn't special in that regard. also because how much money SQL server makes doesn't matter that much, it's how much does it drive adoption to Azure or use its resources. if Azure use is growing, and you can show whatever your working on is helping drive that number higher, then you're mostly fine. if it's not then your gonna get questions.
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