Microsoft

I’ve lived through this story and I’m still surprised by many facets of it.

I keep getting these emails from linked-in and I can’t help but wonder: why are you neglecting your website that much? Why is the app that much better? Is it really better? They don’t make it apparent how. Do they not care about people using the web version anymore? Does Microsoft really feel the primary audience is mobile and not people that sit in front of their computers all day? Why should we believe that linked-in is going to continue investing in the app when we’ve seen folks like StackOverflow create apps and then abandon them? ...

Microsoft keeps acting more reasonable. How about having the #Steam client preinstalled in Windows? (I’m happy playing all of the Steam games I get on Linux and Mac.) Links #Steam Phil Spencer Says Microsoft Returning to Steam - LaptopNinja Shared with: Public

I think there’s been entirely too much made of this, but I’m pleased the geeks dug into this and pointed out the obvious problems. I would like to note that https://mail.clintonemail.com/ takes you to the Outlook Web App backed by Microsoft’s Exchange. Would somebody in the press please ask Hillary when she plans to get support for her Outlook addiction? It might be time for intervention. Links https://mail.clintonemail.com/ BREAKING NEWS: Spam Filtering Service had access to Clinton Classified Emails « Dvorak News Blog Shared with: Public

I hope Microsoft keeps burning through their pile of cash to buy dying companies like Nokia. They should do BlackBerry in 2014 and then Apple in 2015. Why not swallow IBM the next year? Eventually Microsoft will go bankrupt and the only company maintaining a proprietary OS will be Oracle. When Microsoft sells off the mouse and keyboard business you’ll know the end is nigh. You heard it here first! ...

So I’ve ended up playing with Windows7 (gaming platform) more than intended on my new Linux laptop. :) It seems that Microsoft – while touting desktop gadgets as a great feature – has killed their dynamic directory of gadgets and they just have a static page now. So updates are not propagating. Plus you have to go to the developers site for updates, but the links everybody has in their gadgets broke too so you have to bring up the browser and site by hand. So it seems Microsoft is still the land of half-assed half measures for half-wits. ...