Just saw this on Paul’s site. Couldn’t resist spreading it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGeWNR8CWnA
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Fred
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ManagerSeptember 7, 2019 at 10:50 am #1941549See this blog post. and the ComputerWorld article.
Also, see the DEFCON-3 post and related ComputeerWorld article.1 user thanked author for this post.
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 7, 2019 at 12:36 pm #1941711Well sure it’s a cute video and thanks, interns, for all the enthusiastic effort you gave to it “outside of our day job”. Some news for youngsters, when you’re on Corporate salary there is no “outside of our day job”, it’s a 24 hr commitment, so your salary covers the effort, I know it sucks but there it is.
This pretty well confirms my suspicions about what Microsoft has become, more a version of “some cult that’s always in the news but shall not be named for legal reasons”, than simply a Corporation. I’ve been with big corporations and I get loyalty and commitment demands (and what the reality ends up being like), but this video is absolutely over the top for a so called spontaneous effort.
But you know, “yay” for Microsoft Corporate getting the very newest drones to adore you to the point of embarrassment immediately upon their acquisition.
Now can you please fix your management structure for deploying desktop Windows so that your paying customers can feel the same? It’s been a long few years since I felt anything like love for Microsoft as a licensed user and one time computer business owner.
But with kids as enthusiastic as this about the Corporate Dogma, there will be no customer concerns, only happiness forever.
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:05 pm #1941762Gag, barf. Micro$oft isn’t an innovation company, it’s an M&A company.
And as someone with a safety-critical software background, whose learning began with Digital, TOPS-10, and the Great Orange Wall of documentation, I can’t decide if Bill did us a favor or did us lasting harm. Regardless, the greater public has come to accept buggy insecure software and superficial documentation as the common denominator. Look at voting machines built over Windows. What could possibly go wrong?
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Bluetrix
AskWoody MVPSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:22 pm #1941763By far the worse Flash Mob I have ever seen.
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:44 pm #1941776He had a dream, the dream was his, and he wanted to share his dream with the
rest of us.Some of us live in a democracy, the dream was thrust upon All of us, without a single vote to determine if his dream was good or bad. Now we live, without our consent, with the outcome, and the pendulum has swung toward the bad.
Has anyone commissioned a study on how much time, in a persons day, is wasted answering bogus phone calls, listening to bogus voicemails, listening to blank answering machine messages, pushing endless voice prompts and getting nowhere, deleting scam emails, scanning for computer viruses/malware, trying to figure out how to operate a computer program, spending hours fixing a computer with a bad patch and Wondering who you can Trust?
Today my glass is have empty, but it can be filled up.
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Sparky
AskWoody LoungerSeptember 7, 2019 at 4:23 pm #1942052Today my glass is
haveempty, but it can be filled up.Correction; Should say half instead of have.
Fixing the above wasted more of my time.
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:52 pm #1941779It’s all fun & thanks to the Full-timers & interns at Micro$oft for doing this. Interesting quote at the end:
Use Microsoft as a platform to pursue your passions. — Satya Nadella, CEO
How about using Windows as a platform to get things done without screwing them up in the process? Hmm, Mr. Nadella?!
Bought a refurbished Windows 10 64-bit, currently updated to 22H2. Have broke the AC adapter cord going to the 8.1 machine, but before that, coaxed it into charging. Need to buy new adapter if wish to continue using it.
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AskWoody MVPSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:55 pm #1941781I expect that we will soon be seeing this on the Disney Channel as a paid advertisement.
They spend a ton of money on a slick music video trying to convince you how wonderful the Surface is, rather than trying to actually making it a good machine.
“Windows is the bet on which this company was made” – actually, it was DOS, and the deal Bill Gates got from IBM.
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MrJimPhelps
AskWoody MVPSeptember 11, 2019 at 7:58 am #1948123My point was that it looks like it belongs on the Disney Channel. And of course I have no doubt that Microsoft would like to reach the young people of today, either to keep them from going to Google and Apple, or to grab them from there if they’ve already gone there.
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NoLoki
AskWoody LoungerSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:57 pm #1941782It is not only cream that rises to the top. Other stuff floats too.
This video is an example of the latter.The tech company that I worked for had considered partnering with Microsoft way back in its early days. We had expertise and products that he was interested in and we thought that Windows had a future (intuitive huh), but Bill Gates was so arrogant, it never happened. For several decades Gates was a very self absorbed man and he was an utterly ruthless businessman. He has matured of late and his foundation does excellent work. Microsoft is no longer the Gates company, but his fingerprints are still all over it.
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woody
ManagerSeptember 7, 2019 at 3:06 pm #1941953Certainly, nobody named “Ruth” ever worked for Gates.
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MemberSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:58 pm #1941783Very nicely done! I watched it just now, and it looked really splendid on the 15″ Retina screen on my MacBook Pro laptop!
Now, back to doing something with the Mac that I need to finish soon, using some convenient macOS application software… Then I’ll turn on the other PC and update some Linux applications there! Busy, busy, busy!
(I do wonder what the interns at Apple might be planning to do, these days.)
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 7, 2019 at 3:06 pm #1941954I.
Am.
Positively.
Ill.
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AskWoody_MVPSeptember 7, 2019 at 5:17 pm #1942136So that’s what happened to the quality control team…
On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
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Carl D
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 8, 2019 at 12:29 am #1942824So that’s what happened to the quality control team…
Yup, they got over 40, went out the door, and these are the replacements.
“O Tempora! O mores! O &^#$!”
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MemberSeptember 8, 2019 at 8:38 pm #1944188How about “farce”? Or “comedy of misunderstandings”?
But whatever the theatrical genre, that is one pretty sleek production. There must have been, first the try outs for the various dancing and singing parts (with self-driven participants, or prompted from higher up?), followed by lots of time spent in individual and group practice, then numerous rehearsals and many, many takes, until the final nicely packaged and put together product was finished and ready for its broadcast and the admiring reception, or otherwise, of the world . In the meantime, who was doing the work of the incidental singers and dancers?
Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).
MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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AskWoody_MVPSeptember 9, 2019 at 9:36 am #1945007Operating system and services improvement and maintenance isn’t flash and therefore receives no press nor recognition.
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