BangersInMyKnickers posted:

enterprise does but the small business space buys a single copy when they replaces the computer every 10 years and upgrades office then. the subscription model is a shakeup for them

Shaggar posted:

office 365 is so much better for small businesses that its not even worth thinking about.

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

can michaelsoft stop making their cloud services crash because its pretty much killed any chance of a 365 rollout here for a few years

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

brb demanding a win8 install asap

Caged posted:

any business running sbs 2003 deserves to have it break. gently caress that poo poo.

Cardboard Box A posted:

Speaking of Challenger Disaster Mindsets

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/microsoft-said-to-announce-job-cuts-as-soon-as-this-week.html



"Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as the software maker looks to slim down and integrate Nokia Oyj’s handset unit, people with knowledge of the company’s plans said.

The reductions -- which may be unveiled as soon as this week -- will probably be in areas such as Nokia and divisions of Microsoft that overlap with that business, as well as marketing and engineering, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. The restructuring may end up being the biggest in Microsoft history, topping the 5,800 jobs cut in 2009, two of the people said. Some details are still being worked out, two of the people said.

...

Some of the job cuts will be in marketing departments for businesses such as the global Xbox team, said the people."

Socracheese posted:

i have a good enterprise software anecdote:

my university was one of the first places to develop an electronic class scheduler / transcript database way back in the fuckin 60's, they sold it to other universities and poo poo

but in the 80s it was gettin hella outdated so they formed a committee to decide what to do. the committee waffled for nearly a decade and decided to contract it out. they have flip-flopped on vendors (because each of them did an even shittier job than the last) for decades now over the issue and the school has been eaten alive by software consultants ever since, for thirty years.

PokeJoe posted:

i have some friends at ms who are not having a good day at work today

qirex posted:

we use lync and it's ok but we don't use any of the audio/video features, just chat and screen sharing

we've been piloting zoom because it works on ipads and macs but it's p bad

Blackula69 posted:

this is the next update after that update

Blackula69 posted:

i am not a beep boop computer man but shouldn't microsoft be signing their software in a way that lets it be installed

hobbesmaster posted:

that would involve giving apple money

computer parts posted:

univbee posted:

to be fair, microsoft licensing is the dumbest loving thing there is and a lot of their poo poo is really baffling to "normal" people

eschaton posted:

Hekseskudd Ambidextrous Keyboard Tray

the only way to fly

univbee posted:

you haven't truly cj'ed until you've seen this happen with EXE files. fun things happen when that occurs

Sniep posted:

the weird thing imho is how the ps4 weighs like nothing compared to the xbone, and it has the psu built in where the xbone comes with a huge external brick. you'd think having the psu inside would make it heavier overall

how is the xbone so drat heavy compared

pagoe posted:

hmm i watched those videos and im really considering one now. the snap when you attach the keyboard really appeals to me.

CharlesM posted:

I like mine a lot and since unfortunately breaking it I've been using my Kindle Fire HD which sucks compared to it.

qirex posted:

there's nothing more frustrating than busting your rear end on something that ends up being terrible, there's no feeling of accomplishment, just that you wasted a bunch of your life

Phoenixan posted:

even if you own some weird hodgepodge of devices like a windows & a mac & an android & an ipad you can still have all your stuff sync via safari, chrome, or firefox just fine and relaly using any browser but ie makes your life way easy

minivanmegafun posted:

i presume you're running 2012 R2

otherwise you'd be asking where the start button is

you hover your cursor in a 4x4 px block in the lower-left corner. i guess it works okay when you're on a physical console but when you're using a terminal server session and don't have an actual edge of the screen, welp.

Clockwerk posted:

any application can hijack focus at any time. what a lovely feature for generating a predictable user experience.

minivanmegafun posted:

ahahaah notch's statement about this rules.


http://pastebin.com/n1qTeikM

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

closing the r&d labs wtf?????

like is that even saving money? who did this calculation? does microsoft not have access to basic spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel?

?????

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

"It's poo poo, but it's packed full"

Sniep posted:

im the wrist pads

PleasureKevin posted:

i heard microsoft made a product packed with features but didn't properly consider the human interface is this true??

Mr. Apollo posted:

Jay Cutler called them "ipad knockoffs"

Last Chance posted:

Pinterest Mom posted:

ｃｌｉｃｋ  ｉｎ with your ｍｉｃｒｏｓｏｆｔ  ｓｕｒｆａｃｅ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROTZLWKtQz4