Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
by cryptonector on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:32PM
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> All I am saying is every platform exists for a reason and has issues.
Hardly an inspiring sales pitch for Windows.
The reality is that Microsoft allowed a lot of things to stagnate in Windows that it shouldn't have:
- the C runtime
- the terminal and shell
- UTF-8 support (lol)
- package installation
- CLI admin tooling
To their credit, they've been doing a ton of catch-up work on all of those things lately. Yes, PowerShell is nice. Yes there's a lot of very nice APIs and protocols. Active Directory is good enough (though I think Microsoft may be resting on its laurels with AD).
Impressions made 20 years ago continue to be true-ish now, though, again, Microsoft is finally making progress towards remediating those, but inertia counts for a lot. Eventually, maybe, just maybe, Windows might recover a lot of the mind-share it lost to Linux.
This is a business where mind-share is kind. It's interesting to see a number of companies that benefited enormously from mind-share they built then fail to keep it up. Mind-share is the biggest lock-in.
Hardly an inspiring sales pitch for Windows.
The reality is that Microsoft allowed a lot of things to stagnate in Windows that it shouldn't have:
To their credit, they've been doing a ton of catch-up work on all of those things lately. Yes, PowerShell is nice. Yes there's a lot of very nice APIs and protocols. Active Directory is good enough (though I think Microsoft may be resting on its laurels with AD).Impressions made 20 years ago continue to be true-ish now, though, again, Microsoft is finally making progress towards remediating those, but inertia counts for a lot. Eventually, maybe, just maybe, Windows might recover a lot of the mind-share it lost to Linux.
This is a business where mind-share is kind. It's interesting to see a number of companies that benefited enormously from mind-share they built then fail to keep it up. Mind-share is the biggest lock-in.