Windows is doomed

Re:Windows is doomed by JackFr on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:52AM (#15148792)

It feels like Microsoft is entering the next stage of the IBM lifecycle -- technology eliminates the value of the monopoly, and they're forced to find new ways to make money, while they coast for a few years on market inertia.

Ultimately MS (like IBM) will not to be able to sell anything outside the C-suite, because anyone closer to the technology knows there are better cheaper solutions.

(But Xboxes...hmmmmm...maybe my view is a little to simplistic.)

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Re:Windows is doomed by mistermann on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:17AM (#15149099)

Have you heard of Azure?

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Re:Windows is doomed by swagtricker on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:51AM (#15149543)

Yes. An compared to AWS it's been immature, buggy, unreliable, and caters to the admin acting like a button mashing monkey that tries to solve problems by turning things on/off in the Web UI instead of using a programmable repeatable, scriptable "environment as source". Hopefully, others have had better experiences, but so far I'm wanting to run away screaming.

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Re:Windows is doomed by mistermann on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:17PM (#15163626)

> instead of using a programmable repeatable, scriptable "environment as source".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...

Thanks for the time capsule experience though, sometimes I miss the legendary zealotry of Slashdot.

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