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I am not impressed by this exploit, because there are some chance he had studied the document before the presentation, or even asked someone to verify it. He wa
by scriptproof 8y ago
I am not impressed by this exploit, because there are some chance he had studied the document before the presentation, or even asked someone to verify it.
He was flawed on many aspects, for example trying to attract developers by dancing and chanting "developers, dev...".
His successors put Linux in Windows, open sourced .NET and this seems more efficient... without even harming Windows market share.
- ThrowawayR2 8y ago> ...trying to attract developers by dancing and chanting "developers, dev..." That video was from Microsoft's _internal_ company-wide meeting held annually to rally their staff, so your assertion is invalid. Moreover, it's a bad example to begin with; Ballmer was and still is absolutely correct. What makes the FOSS software ecosystem so successful? That's right: developers, developers, developers. Somebody has to write all that code and it isn't going to be the end-users. When developers get pissed off at a platform, they abandon or fork it, which is why it makes sense to keep developers happy. Those of us who were around in the '80s-'90s remember that Microsoft's rise to dominance was partly powered by the fact that they offered relatively cheap and good compilers and dev tools and solid documentation to make it easy to develop software for their platform. Contrast that with the workstation vendors back then that charged much more than MS did just to get a compiler.
- scriptproof 8y agoI did not say he was wrong for trying to attract developers. I said chanting to attract them is ridiculous. And about compilers, Visual Studio has never been cheap. The express version was added only to counter Turbo C++ and other free tools like MingW.