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SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to technology in Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

What about Windows subsystem for Android?

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

It even gives developer options where you can sideload unsigned apk files for developing your own.

I mean, they’ve at least made inroads with Android, it’s not impossible to consider them making moves in the area.

It sure seems like they still do love their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in Signature look of superiority

Kirstie Alley was assuredly not using 100% of her brain.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in Remember that episode when Spock traveled back in time to help write that Beastie Boys song?

Too late.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to technology in Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

I guess I should have been more specific. They’ve succeeded specifically at what continuum aimed to do, which was allow a full desktop experience when plugged into peripherals.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in [What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas?

Thanksgiving is about the only holiday I give a rats ass about. Ignore the fucked up history, ignore the bullshit stories about the Pilgrims.

I do two things on Thanksgiving. Find simple things to be thankful for in my life, and eat good food.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to memes in workplace safety practices are written in blood

and they call the wind Mariah…

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to risa in Remember that episode when Spock traveled back in time to help write that Beastie Boys song?

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic.

Well, now, don’t you tell me to smile…

Spock out here ghost riding writing the whip hip-hop.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to technology in Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

They weren’t willing to risk current day (at that time) profits for a future selling fewer licenses.

That certainly matches their modus operandi. I would agree with this for the most part, but by 2010 they were already working on Office 365 and moving to the idea of Software as a Service. While Office 365 wouldn’t be functionally available to everyone until later in 2011, it was clear they had plans to work around having a license tied to a device, and instead starting to roll out Microsoft Accounts to which the licenses would be tied.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in [What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas?

Christmas at this point isn’t even a religious holiday.

Do people worship Santa Claus? I mean, they do sort of worship the God Consumerism, to be fair.

However, the baby Jesus ain’t got shit to do with the modern version of this holiday.

Just ask the fucking Saturnalia trees we break out every year. The holiday has absolutely loads of pagan traditions present in it because when Constantine shouted out “Hey all you Romans, all of you are Christian now!” didn’t actually work very well. So they started mashing existing traditions onto the “new” tradition. So the Romans just took Saturnalia and slapped Christmas on it and was like “this totally tracks!” to get people to accept Christianity as the new religion of the Empire.

I mean, holy fuck, middle eastern winters are far too cold for a baby in a manger. Kid would have frozen the fuck to death.

Whole thing is a joke anyway from fucks who don’t know shit about history because the only book they bothered to ever try to read (and they only really read what their preacher told em) was the Bible.

If they read (and believed) other books, they would and should be embarrassed.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to technology in Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

Dropping their plans for Continuum was foolish. Now we have fully featured Linux-based phones like the PinePhone that succeed where Microsoft’s plans for Continuum failed. (As in you can plug the PinePhone into peripherals for a desktop experience.)

Phones are pushing CPUs and RAM that are on par with laptops and desktops at this point. It seems a little superfluous if we’re not allowed to do real computing on these machines. Continuum was what I saw as the future of General Purpose Computing, by taking the locked down OS design of smart phones and giving them a desktop experience when plugged into peripherals.

Once every phone is also a desktop, you suddenly have opened all kinds of options for people who only have a phone, and not a full computer. Which, last I checked, is the majority of internet users who access it via their phones. Continuum would have been a literal game changer, and they gave up on it.

It would become a situation where everyone is like “I already have my phone, I’m not even going to bring my laptop unless I need it for specific function.” Because once your phone can be an on-the-go desktop, laptops will have less allure.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to til in TIL - J and J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public.

I agree, but being able to not be directly prosecuted is basically why corporations and the idea of incorporating exist at all.

It has always been about minimizing risk to the business owner.

It is bullshit and needs to change.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago to til in TIL - J and J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public.

Ah, the good ol “if we never look for it, it isn’t really there!” plan.