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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by WorldMaker on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:39PM (#21050588)
Most everyone makes fun of that mantra moment, but Ballmer was right, Microsoft has always historically done its best work when it put Developers first. Ballmer wasn't always great at executing a developer-first vision (particularly compared to the modern open source era of Azure/WSL/VS Code/…) [ETA: partly because Ballmer was not himself a developer and needed the reminders], but it's weird to criticize him for shouting about how developers should be the core to what Microsoft builds (and sells).
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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by fortran77 on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:32PM (#21051211)
I agree with you. He was 100% correct. And that's why the company is top in valuation.

And I love to develop on Microsoft. Best toolset around. I use C#/F#/C++ on Windows 10

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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by nitePhyyre on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:10PM (#21050946)
The criticism isn't that he was shouting about how developers were the core to business. The criticism is just that he looked silly doing it.
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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by sandov on Monday September 23, 2019 @04:03PM (#21052979)
No one disagrees with him on his thesis. It's just that the way he presented it was extremely funny.
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