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AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
esx lost more marketshare to windows server than windows desktop lost to osx
tru story

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AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
the way software assurance is set up makes the decision to drop it reeeaaall difficult. the cost for particular licenses drops off massively after 3 years, so in the long run it costs a lot less than buying upgrades
the agreements don't really scale down at all, only up (ito no of licenses). if you drop sa and then decide to go back on you're back to paying the much more expensive initial prices again.

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
gonna kill our last 3 2003r2s before the end of the year
hello new schema level!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
welcome to production networks

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
i didn't mean it as some ms thing more like 'how do we upgrade this without pissing off a lot of people' is a really fuckin painful question to answer

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
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AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
hi let's get real ppl aren't gonna use our poo poo cause it's 'microsoft' so we need to get our poo poo together and make the best products so people want to use them despite it being microsoft

enjoy the weekend
typed but not read
sootya nadootya

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
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

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

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
i watched a build talk on desktop apps and their solution for vector graphics was using fonts and html
touchpad multitouch stuff can either use the built-in mouse emulation (lovely scrolling, terrible stepped zooming) or, "tell windows you'll handle all touchpad stuff in app"
tyoo(dark)l 2014
i mean it's like they're treating their most important env the same way apple treats itunes for windows

AtomD fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jul 16, 2014

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

PleasureKevin posted:

but he never says Xbox One, and he mentions "mobile". the next paragraph also starts with "While today many people define mobile by devices, Microsoft defines it by experiences." so maybe they are planning to put the Xbox APU in a surface or stream Xbox One games to windows phone, but that's inferring way too much.

maybe ms will try to make the phone gaming experience not complete and utter garbage, wait 15 minutes for a new turd from the rear end or pay $1 for 5 turds now, poo poo

they've got official controller apis that most games (or devs at least) actually support so maybe the could try to crack the utterly terrible smartphone/handheld console convertible

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
lync federation is cool cause now i can know for sure that a supplier is ignoring my email instead of them maybe just not being at their desk

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

born on a buy you posted:

everywhere I've worked that used lync had it whitelisted to internal ips only. unless you're vpning on your phone constantly an iOS app would be dumb.

sounds real dumb
i set ours up so it works with ios/android/wp from outside, there's open federation and also federation with skype
tbh skype federation is a pain in the dick to explain to anyone (the skype user must have a microsoft account and also there's a weird syntax to the addresses)

tho if our company was larger and i had to work with separate teams to get the natting/dns records, certificates and reverse proxy poo poo all done id probably have said fuckit

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

mod sassinator posted:

if there is any greater sign of the complete dysfunction at MS, it's been almost three years since the release of their tablets and there still isn't a touch friendly version of office for them

i got a feeling that ms suffers from a shitload of bystander effect

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

graph posted:

oh.

lol


idk if the iOS MS RDP client is part of that but boy golly does it fuckin own

that was bought i think

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
im hoping the undercurrent of satya's droning on about 'cloud first mobile first' poo poo is
hey selling a bad product on the back of a good product actually just makes the good product look like poo poo while also not selling the bad product

a lot of servers and tools products moved in the direction of working better with non-windows clients like SCCM working with OSX and Android and iOS now (though i dont know how well) and that was while he was in charge there

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

theadder posted:

ya lol i wish it gave the alternative names

they'll call it Surface (TM)

no not that surface
no not that one either

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
hello im microsoft middle manager trying to justify my existence here are my suggestions for internet explorer's new name:

1) Coupe
want to cruise the information superhighway? coupe's got you covered

2) Flow
it's so fast and fluid. market it with rap music to appeal to the kids

3) Moses
it talked you on a journey i suppose


so we just need to pick the one of these three we like the most!!

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

Pinterest Mom posted:

Zune Browser

legit would

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
the gently caress is the font cache in kernel mode anyway

also font management in windows is utter garbage just fuckin rebuild it from the ground up

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
license frutiger you cheap fucks
sleazy horsehit sarny segoe

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

the ballmer is the best wwf wrestler that never was

i think him playing ceo of a wwe type thing would literally get me watching wrestling

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
ms is trying so hard to make the xbone appealing to gamerz that their new video player actually plays mkvs

im a guy who made the wrong decision 6 months ago:
xbox play demolition underscore man dot seven twenty pee dot scene dot em kay vee. hehe bet your ps4 cant do that

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
tbh if i was gonna buy a console id probably buy the xbone just because it would be exciting to see how bad a decision it would turn out to be over the course of 5 years

not even joking im really that dumb

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
like OOOHHH poo poo EA dropped 3rd party support of the bone oh man that really was SUCH A DUMB DECISION THIS IS SO EXCITING!

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
if i bought an xbox already i could've been OUTRAGED right now! now its just funny

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

Beeftweeter posted:

xbox collect dust

i own a dust collector 360
ive bought games on steam cause that i own on xbl cause i dont wanna boot it up

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
apparently the xbox one is 3 times more efficient at collecting dust tho

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
im going to launch a campaign on the insider forums to make WPF a univeral app target interface

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
i actually press the start btn in windows toilet paper and then for a second im confused when the start screen doesn't show up

microsoft we trained everyone on the 8.1 start screen if u change it to this new "start menu" that would mean way too much training!

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
here is microsoft making leaps and bounds in the hot field of commercial unviability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dgHgHQSuuY
wow looks like stylus is going to be the next big thing huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILb5ExBzHqw
"awweessomee" - 11 year old kid in movie from 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jo9ww9cLzg
this would work great for me, a worker in the field of ultra niche technology consumption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_GbVIo6iq0
for this one im going to hand over to my friend who writes monologues for late night shows. "with this ring, i'll never be wed!"

hypothesis: we can use all these leftover kinects for something useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df7fZAYVAIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YPTYnZJ8gk
result: hhhmmno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD22qcunSE4
fuckit

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
jesus that's just sad

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
"im going to eat a turd"
"no man that's gross"
"WHAT? EATING A TURD WILL BE AMAZING!!! IF YOU WON"T LET ME EAT A TURD THEN YOU FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO DO SOMETHING AMAZING"

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

Ice_2_c_u posted:

wasn't there supposed to be some feature like notifications and email while a laptop is sleeping or something? on a separate screen on the outside of the case? I thought that sounded like the coolest poo poo ever ten years ago

this was called sideshow
great name. for a clown to shout out. at the circus

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
coulda been cool if there was some sort of wearable type of technology it could talk to and if windows nt ran on devices equipped with low power processors or something

vista's greatest culled feature is wmv backgrounds (nobody used it except ppl who pirated windows cause it was a ~~~~~ultimate extra~~~~~~)

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
freal satya's pretty bad at sounding inspiring (if u say mobile first cloud first 3 times into the mirror a pair of jeans and a suit jacket will appear) but what he did with servers/tools while he was there was really good

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

goddamn I was dissapointed win7 didn't look and operate like zune, then win8 came

u see zune ui was designed by an actual person with good taste

then metro came about and it was actually p drat good on wp7. at the time everything else was all gradient and texture and skeumorph so flat simple design was a breath of fresh air. it may even have been influential. and tech sites went "wow ms did a nice design" and ms went "whhaaaaaaaaa? how?" and then completely misunderstood everything about why metro was likable in the first place when putting it in all their products

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

theadder posted:

post this original desirable metro

(its abysmal isnt it)

wait wait its about context
here's what ios and android looked like

which is what phones are supposed to look like
and then all of a sudden ms does this


it was a bad os but so fresh tho

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

hrrmf
no adult is laughing at these memes. nobody. not even reddit. i refuse to believe it. reddit users think other reddit users laff at memes so they do the polite laugh you do with coworkers, only it's everybody doing the polite laugh. deep down everyone knows it's horseshit, but they do it anyway. meme trading is the prole stock market.


and i really hope im not wrong about this

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AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

ballmer is the best

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