• Steve Ballmer: we should have turned Microsoft into a “world-class hardware company”
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[url]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/steve-ballmer-we-should-have-turned-microsoft-into-a-world-class-hardware-company/[/url]
Considering their current forced update trend they'd probably implement firmware that would brick "out of date" hardware to force you to buy new ones.
If they got into hardware early on, Windows Phone could actually be a viable platform, but of course it's not you're going to get a lot more support and functionality from their competitors. Unless there's a real big gamechanger, the only reason to buy a windows phone is if you want to sacrifice a lot just to fit into a Microsoft Ecosystem, otherwise, and I feel this is already a card being played, Microsoft invests more into making their products the best they can be on their competitors systems, because it's very late to tap into the mobile market without a massive gamechanger. Microsoft is doing well with their Surface product because it targeted the market very well, in a time where 2in1s where starting to pop up. And if Hololens sucks, well we can cross that bridge when we get there
[QUOTE=Sombrero;52297690]Considering their current forced update trend they'd probably implement firmware that would brick "out of date" hardware to force you to buy new ones.[/QUOTE] After the Eternalblue fiasco, do you think forced updates are truly that bad for the home user? I honestly don't think so. A forced update would've saved so many headaches. Any power user, or system admin can disable the forced updates if needed.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;52298513]After the Eternalblue fiasco, do you think forced updates are truly that bad for the home user? I honestly don't think so. A forced update would've saved so many headaches. Any power user, or system admin can disable the forced updates if needed.[/QUOTE] Except for the thread in SH where they are starting to ignore group policy on W10 Enterprise
You can't yell hardware into existence, Steve.
I was told by an ex-Microsoft insider that the culture inside Microsoft when Steve Ballmer took the reigns was really cancerous and counter-productive. [URL="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer"]Vanity Fair[/URL] has wrote an article discussing that "lost decade" of Microsoft's success, it's a really good read and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in tech. The article does a great reflection on what Microsoft went through after Gates' departure and why Microsoft lost in a lot of battles.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;52298513]After the Eternalblue fiasco, do you think forced updates are truly that bad for the home user? I honestly don't think so. A forced update would've saved so many headaches. Any power user, or system admin can disable the forced updates if needed.[/QUOTE] The whole point of [i]forced[/i] updates is ignoring sysadmin settings, otherwise it isnt really being forced out.
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