computer parts posted:

i actually had to use some enterprise software recently and surprisingly it ran on linux

graph posted:

are you on a magic triangle or purely open directory?

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

holy poo poo even native win8 doesn't have proper multitouch and smooth scrolling? really?? the platform made specifically for touch and then crammed into the desktop doesn't natively support touch?

Scott Forstall posted:

in an alternate universe, Nokia said "gently caress it, we're going Android" with the Lumia as the hardware and are currently one of the top Android OEMs.

and all those people still have their jobs.


but lol nope, microsoft

pram posted:

eschaton posted:

linux, that c+ quality undergrad project which implemented threads by forking for a long-rear end time?

when AST schooled linus, that was also p awesome

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

for the purposes of metro, everything is a touchscreen interface varying in size and DPI.

how do iOS apps handle varying sizes and DPI ? oh yeah just loving fine

eschaton posted:

friends on Facebook are talking about how their kids are in literal tears over Microsoft buying Minecraft

don't underestimate Microsoft's negative brand perception among young consumers

pseudorandom name posted:

I can't want for the "Minecraft" label to get slapped on unrelated products because its the only non-poisoned brand Microsoft owns.

FMguru posted:

you know what has really been holding us back in the consumer space? the way we arent slapping our main brand - the one that reminds everyone of the barely functional machines they use at the job that they hate - on all of our products. phones are very personal devices, so we should try and create strong associations with restrictive security policies, malware outbreaks, and chubby it guys in mlp tshirts - that should drive consumer adoption, particularly at the high end. we should make them out of creaky black plastic, to really drive the point home.

Malcolm XML posted:

re ballmer:

he outscored gates on the putnam, notable because getting above a 0 is considered to be pretty drat good.

also he played basketball a lot @ redmond

the talent deficit posted:

who made the joke about old rear end enterprise programs checking for 'windows 9*'?

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x

Socracheese posted:

nadella is an incompetant shitheel, if he wasn't he would have been fired long ago for potentially threatening ballmer's throne

FMguru posted:

msft has been producing and promoting tablets since 1991. here is billy gates with a message for you from 2002:

Pinterest Mom posted:

a driver update from windows update bricks the device if it thinks it's counterfeit
http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/
lol

FMguru posted:

they were also done in by the shift from dos to windows 3.x. lotus and wp and borland and ashton tate were slow to release win3 versions of their software (and what they released was usually half-assed and buggy), while msft pulled out all the stops to make word and excel the best-in-class on windows. msft had an advantage in that the hundred people who most understood windows 3.0 were all located just two rows of cubicles over from the word and excel teams, and therve always been suggestions that windows was specifically written in ways to trip up non-office applications, but i just remember the big software incumbents of the 1980s being slow to fully pivot to windows and msft taking full advantage of their lassitude

agreed that wordperfect was the best

Thanks Ants posted:

its almost like…microsoft have no aptitude!!!

Pinterest Mom posted:

i bet they coded that in because ballmer would always insist on setting his password to Steve Ballmer

graph posted:

:runs over to the crank that plays yakety sax, starts churning furiously:

Amethyst posted:

a friend of mine spent a ton of money, like enough for 2 macbook airs