My takeaway from the Ignite conference

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Satya Nadella gave the keynote speech at the Ignite conference in Orlando this morning. In this era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge, bus
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I’m waiting for the postscript.

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A link to the definition of intelligent edge courtesy of the folks at Technopedia.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/32559/intelligent-edge

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“businesses in every industry are looking for a trusted partner to help them transform”

Wait, what? What businesses? Are they also offering you a million billion zillion dollars too?

MS is not and will not ever be that partner in any capacity as long as you’re in charge and Windows Update continues like it has.

“while providing end-to-end security”

Windows 10 is the most vulnerable, least secure OS you’ve come up with – as factually evident by all the Windows Update patches and comparing what are Sev1 issues in 10 (pick your release) compared to 7 & 8.1. If businesses want security, they’re not going to find it in a Win10 box.

As Forrest Gump wisely put it, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

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AHHHhhhh..MS AI is going to eliminated all things with a blue screen errors….Satya Nadella is living in the clouds without any realistic goals. MS updates are total mess and he did not address that. Satya should be replaced.

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Satya Nadella gave the keynote speech at the Ignite conference in Orlando this morning.

Keynote speeches are for apple conferences and are usually introductory good news!
Surely a PowerPoint-less speech would befit MS in it’s current shambolic state
As for the conference name ‘ignite‘, the fuse is burning..
observation/ off

If debian is good enough for NASA...

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Trusted partner?

LOL!

-Noel

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<SNARK>

And as we all know, trusting Microsoft and living on the bleeding edge is always absolutely safe and monumentally productive.

</SNARK>

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I’m so over the delusional Steve Jobs wannabes.

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He’s just delusional.

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Because they will patch “it” in their datacenter.  At least for enterprises.  Windows 10 multi user hosted desktops in Azure.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Susan Bradley wrote:

Windows 10 multi user hosted desktops in Azure.

…Presumably because computer hardware is too expensive for mere individual businesses to own.

<smiley with one eye bigger than the other here>

In similar words to those of an anonymous poster above, “I’m so over mainframes and terminals”.

-Noel

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Because you’ll be logging in from a Chromebook or an Android to then log into your key thing that demands Windows.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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That presupposes one wants (and wants one’s employees) to have such devices.

From what I can see, portable electronic devices distract people more than they add to productivity. And in my opinion thinking people can get useful things done from a portable device is akin to thinking cell phone voice conversations are useful. They have their moments, but IMO anyone who thinks smart phones are important to productivity may be entirely ignoring the decline and fall of western civilization. 😉

Call me a dinosaur, that’s okay. Meanwhile I’ll just keep hammering out bunches of high quality code and running my software business from my workstation here, entirely under my control 24/7…

-Noel

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There are countries that were all enthusiastic about digitalization of school class rooms – and meanwhile have made so disastrous experiences and have had so dramatic drops in learning performance scores of pupils, that they have slammed in emergency-brakes and fully u-turned.

Marc

 

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There is a place for these new technologies and I’m OK with them, as long the place they take is not too large, or they can be dangerous if not properly designed or properly used. Which is the problem here with Nadella’s igniting ideas.

Take cell phones: there are those walking the Earth today that have evolved hands that are useful accessories for holding and texting on smartphones (oversized cellphones) while crossing a busy street: that is bad.

On the other hand, people whose jobs keep them frequently on the move and need to be in touch with their base station: maintenance workers, firefighters, police officers, and so forth, may use cellphones rather than walkie-talkies to good purpose: not only to talk over them, but also to receive technical data, drawings, utility maps, etc. to facilitate or even enable them to do their job. Or anybody in some emergencies when these gadgets provide the only means of quick communication. Or myself, going to pick up someone, or be picked up by someone at an airport, to coordinate with each other how best to get together without trouble caused by misunderstandings: that is good.

Anything much beyond that, if not necessarily bad, is probably questionably good. And in many cases unnecessary.

As, and I hope am not over elaborating the point, are Mr. Nadella’s inflaming ideas.

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The “Cloud” and Internet of Things can bring with them the promise of huge vulnerabilities to malicious cyber attacks. Not just to companies or groups of individuals, but to critical infrastructure. Whoever is pushing for it — without also proposing strong and effective regulation to ensure the servers and gadgets are fully armored against such attacks, with severe penalties in case of such attacks succeeding because of lax compliance by those responsible for Cloud and IoT gadgets, servers, etc. — is also cluelessly pushing for opening wider the door to espionage, theft of electronic data and financial assets, and even full-scale cyber attacks by nation states against each other.

And perhaps also by criminals against individuals: there are by now any number of, in my opinion, prescient science fiction stories where someone turns a “smart” house against its owners.

Could that not happen in reality? Well, those science fiction stories impress me as at least as realistic as Mr. Nadella’s “Ignite” expectations.

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Ah yes the cloud. Everyone will love the “cloud”.

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Somebody should send Nadella a golden gift box with a copy of this absolutely outstanding movie in it, “Ex Machina”.

I am no hostile to technology, but I can only warn against this super-hyper optimistic attitude on technology that always uncritically and undistanced embraces just everything new, without spending on serious thought on assessing the potential risks inherent in that technology, or the chance of said technology beign abused by the few, against the many.

And “artificial intelligence” is a massive exaggeration anyway. Or has anyone the ultimate definition of and the penultimate list of preconditions for self-awareness, and artificial intelligence? Saying this as a former psychologist here.

And now, that “synsects” (swarms of mobile, autonomous miniature automats that interact not by individual but by swarm “intelligence”) more and more seem to become a possible near-future reality, we must also take into account that we create new dead autoinomous intelligent actors int he form of such swarms, that have no artificial intellegence worth to be mentioned at all.

Researchers may not want to hear that, but so far I have not heard of a single project that has realized to even get close to creating an artificial intelligence. If you look close enough, its always just highly complex automatism, sometimes paired with various attempts of adding the spice of chaotic randomization attempts to create creativity, or fake creativity, in the form of self-emerging structures that influence the automat’s decision” forming. In other words: it rolls dice, or tries to.

Scepticism means to be open, but fight against bias and prejudice. In other words: do not just believe it will be good. Believing is not knowing.

Marc

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“Meanwhile, back here on Planet Earth…”

<hastily wipes sprayed tea from laptop>

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Was in the audience. The eye rolling was massive. The United States government is swinging a full 180 away from the cloud vision of this guy. It’s security that is job one. And MS’s version does not address that in any reasonable way. Giving what is about to come out of D.C. I wonder what kind of pressure he is facing now. All in all, pretty strange presentation.

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Satya Nadella’s words about every business looking for that vaporware he is talking about are quite depressing and that looks bad for the future. They really don’t get it. That is the trusted partner that now slurps your data as much as he can get away with it. I hate gadgets and Windows is becoming a gadget.

I use the French meaning. “Le gadget c’est le truc, le machin, le bidule : un objet qui ne vise à aucune recherche esthétique, qui ne prétend à nul service, qui ne sert à rien ou dont la fonction est si futile qu’on devine bien que sa création n’a pas été dictée par un besoin (Le Monde,10 avr. 1966ds Gilb. 1971). B.”

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AlexEiffel (  #219508 ):

” dont la fonction est si futile qu’on devine bien que sa création n’a pas été dictée par un besoin ”

=> “…where the function is so futile that one can rightly guess its creation was not dictated by a [real] need ”

That is so very true of so much portentously proclaimed these days as the next big thing!

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=> “…where the function is so futile that one can rightly guess its creation was not dictated by a [real] need ”

This is so true. Satya is so beyond a real needs that his delusions are running the company to a point of being usless. He needs to be fired ASAP and get a real thinker back at the control.

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He’s only ever been loved by Wall Street, and that’s because he’s grown the cloud business at the expense of everything else.  One wonders how long that love will last when cloud growth decelerates and there’s nothing left of their other software business to sell people.

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This comment will probably be disappeared, but this Ignite conference seems to be about announcing stuff & things to set wallets aflame for the privilege and an excuse to party in Florida.

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And what about us home users? Do we get “end-to-end security” “empower” us to “thrive in this new era” and “build our own digital capability”, or are we still stuck with update problems and our own devices calling home all of our personal data?

It’s a bit ludicrous to be announcing all of your ambitious plans to go higher when the foundation is little more than aging, crumbling concrete. Sooner or later your skyscraper’s going to collapse, no matter how fancy the capstone is.

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