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Microsoft is now a 'Fucked Company'

By Cancer in Cancer's Diary
Tue Jul 22, 2014 at 10:46:52 PM EST
Tags: software, technology, programming, culture, trenches, Microsoft, horsecock (all tags)
Software

Microsoft just laid off 10% of their employees. Posted a $3B USD loss.

The new CEO he had one quarter to make Microsoft turn around and make a profit, and he failed to do so. Now he had to fire 10% of the employees and halt some projects like Nokia Android phones, Microsoft Surface Mini tablets, and delay Windows 9, Office 2014, and Visual Studio 2014.

In fact if SATAYN@MICROSOFT.COM aka SATAN doesn't turn things around next quarter they might have to lay more people off.


You see SATAN doesn't seem to understand it is now the Post-PC, Post-Windows, Post-Microsoft era.

Ballmer tried to copy Apple and done fucked up.

SATAN tried to copy Google and done fucked up.

I think this Windows Phone 8.1 stuff is horseshit and they should switch to Android instead. Every time you go some place and they say "Hey download our app, now available on Android and iPhones" they never seem to have a Windows Phone 8.1 version just Android and iOS versions. Not even a Blackberry, but RIM/Blackberry modified their QNX OS to run Android apps in a Davlik Java virtual machine and use the Amazon App Market to download and install them. Why can't Microsoft do that? They're too stupid!

Anyway a Microsoft Surface Mini tablet would have helped, that $700 price tag is too much. I have a friend who runs a PC Shop and he gets a lot of Surface Tablets in for repair. Most of them have defective power inverters, and getting a replacement power inverter from Microsoft will fuck up just as well, so he gets Power Inverters from Dell and HP and just cuts the wires to make the adapter fit and it works better that way. Microsoft refuses to address the quality control issues with their Surface Tablets.

Penny Arcade Gabe was shilling for Microsoft for the Surface 1 and 2 tablets. Until Hacker News called him on his BS and then he issued this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/16/surface-pro-3-update

Microsoft is going to fix the Surface 3 problems.

Yet for some reason Gabe forgets to mention that the iPad and Android tablets also support pressure sensitive touch styluses and in some cases they are cheaper than the Microsoft Surface 3 tablet and don't lag like the Surface series does.

But whatever, LOL! At least now he admits the problems the Surface series has, and we hope that Microsoft will be able to fix them.

It lags even on an Intel i7 processor? Oh noes, the horror!

Meanwhile since I am a developer Microsoft keeps spamming me about moving legacy software to Windows 2012 Server in Azure using Visual Studio 2013.

I'd like to use Azure but their prices are way too high. Windows 2012 is 64 bit only so my PC that lacks virtualization support cannot run it in a Virtual Machine. When I bought it from New Egg the May the 4th be with you ad said it had Virtualization but when I installed it, it lacked Virtualization limiting me to 32 bit only virtual machines! I am finding out this is a problem in IT as management only buys the el-cheapo PCs without virtualization support and then expect their programmers and technicians to access 64 bit Azure virtual machines like Windows 2012 Server? Oopsie doodle. If the PC OEM allows it, just pay $300 for a new CPU and replace the old one with a new one if you can explain to management why you need a new one. Yeah this 64 bit virtual machine won't work on the PC you gave me, so I need a $300 new CPU to make it work.

I have been reading posts where developers are like me stuck with 32 bit virtual machines, and cannot access the 64 bit machines because management won't allow them to upgrade their PC. Management is blaming the developers and Microsoft for not enabling the 64 bit machines via software, when it is really a hardware feature of the CPU.

I myself have been running Windows 8.1 because the cheap motherboard from New Egg won't install GRUB during a Linux install. It doesn't even have EFI or Secure Boot, and was listed as being Linux compatible. Windows 8.1 is horseshit I keep losing my wireless connection a lot, the system keeps locking up, and sometimes gives me an Azure screen with the unhappy face. Sometimes I get a Windows Update that fixes it and it runs good for a while, until Patch Tuesday or whenever Microsoft releases an update without quality checking it first, and my system becomes unstable again.

I used the Ninite installer to get the Classic Start Menu http://ninite.com/

Modern UI is also horseshit, there are no visual clues that tell you how to do something. It all looks like Circa 1991 AOL for DOS shit. 2D Menus and Boxes, forget trying to multitask programs in Modern UI, it just cannot be done. If Microsoft would just go back to Windows 7 and rename it Classic Windows 9.0 or something they would not lose money in Windows sales and actually gain a profit.

I am sorry for being so negative but my entire experience with Microsoft Software has been negative for several years now. I know I am not the only one with a negative Microsoft experience, and I think that explains why they are sinking faster than the Titanic.

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I hope my old MS contractor buddy got canned. (none / 1) (#1)
by Edmund Blackadder on Tue Jul 22, 2014 at 11:57:47 PM EST

I did some free (gift economy, if you will) work  for him a couple years or so ago. He was working with spreadsheets, trying to automate a pretty presentation with charts, etc. to track employee expenses. I thought it was funny that they had a "Morale" budget item, because working there was bad for morale.

He worked from home, but was always worried about keeping his meeting app avator icon animated, so everyone else would think he was working all the time. He talked of checking his "exposure" every time he got an email. When I asked him why we couldn't ask the end user what she wanted, he said that it was political, her boss wanted something that the secretary who was going to be using the program didn't want. So we couldn't ask the end user, because she didn't want the program written anyway.

Turns out my buddy lied to his boss about being able to do VBA. He wanted me to write some VBA code to automate the spreadsheet, to produce graphs automatically from pasted-in data. At first I got some trinkets out of it, like an altitude watch. But then I realized this guy just wanted me around to yell at and act like a boss around. He started getting all needy, begging me to come help him, and whining about all the pressure he was under. I told him I didn't want to help Microsoft for free. He got very angry and hasn't talked to me since.

Microsoft turned that guy into an asshole.

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Did you know XBOX is about to get shithoused? (none / 1) (#4)
by mitsu on Wed Jul 23, 2014 at 01:49:39 AM EST

they already killed kinect (which was a failure) and "re-organized" the XBOX division. Bungie, the studio most tied to Microsoft gaming for like the last 15 years, released the beta for their new game Destiny on Playstation platforms 3 days earlier than Microsoft.

To me that is a vote of no-confidence from the industry in Microsoft.

The way the new CEO is being told to look at gaming by investors is that it's non-essential. Opens the door for valve to take over PC gaming (apple has regrettably never really competed seriously in this space).

We could be seeing gaming undergoing a sea change in recent years. It already has changed massively with phone games and cheap user created content games like minecraft.

my predictions: linux will be the salvation of gaming and nintendo will survive. xbox may not.

ONE OS TO RULE THEM ALL (3.00 / 2) (#9)
by Wexel Pixel on Wed Jul 23, 2014 at 02:24:49 PM EST

One Bing to find them,
One CEO to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has confirmed that his company will amalgamate all major versions of Windows into one operating system. Speaking on the company's quarterly earnings call today, Nadella told analysts Microsoft will "streamline the next version of Windows from three operating systems into one single converged operating system." Describing the implications of the change, Nadella said "this means one operating system that covers all screen sizes."

Previously, under the management of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft had multiple teams producing different versions of Windows working separately from each other. "Now," Nadella said, "we have one team with a common architecture." The Microsoft boss didn't clarify exactly how Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox will be unified, but noted the benefit for users and developers -- while Microsoft will still sell different editions of Windows, the new unified platform will allow the creation of universal Windows apps that work across all devices running the OS.

"NOW WE HAVE ONE TEAM WITH A COMMON ARCHITECTURE."

Microsoft has been pushing toward a greater unification of its platforms in recent months: in April, the company showed off developer tools that would enable the creation of such universal apps. The company's merging of its operating systems is a step away from its main rival -- Apple keeps Mac OS and iOS separate -- but the ability to make apps that work on PCs, laptops, tablets, Windows Phones, and Xbox consoles right out of the gate should see the change welcomed by developers. (LOL)
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