Microsoft

Microsoft is a surprisingly good company now... but it wasn't always that way. Microsoft is a surprisingly good company now. But in the 70s, 80s, 90s, they were ruthless, semi-competent, political (internally and out), offered software barely good enough to win a contract, then another contract to support it. Then they lost an anti-Trust lawsuit, Bill Gates retired, the old guard retiring allowed them to fix security, quality and get their shit together. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2019-10-20

Microsoft • [9 items]

12 Days of Microsoft Christmas
Older Windows 95 humor about the 12 Days of Christmas

Unicode, I Am A Witness
My company was collaborating on an idea that encouraged kids to share their experiences with bullying through art and stories -- and they wanted to emoji to support an effort to flip it around by targeting those that witnessed bullying to be empowered. I had a small part in their success getting this emoji accepted.

Bill Gates is a Genius
Is Bill Gates a genius? I don't think he's dumb - he was certainly smart and motivated enough to take advantage of opportunities that fell into his lap. And he was very industrious and competitive. But if you put 100 motivated people in that situation, I bet 30 could have been wildly successful. A few more successful and less jerky.

Driving by watching the rear view mirror

A common mistake I've seen businesses repeat, over and over again - or more accurately I've seen many companies do once or twice until they go out of business or the idiots doing it are fired, is to "drive by watching the review mirror". Instead of analyzing and thinking, learning technology (and markets and customers), they decide, "someone else is doing it, and since it worked for them, it'll work for us". You're not them.

Graphical User Interface
Computers originally started off with programmer having to program them. Then they added built in programs that you could run with simple commands. (You could Operate it, with an Operating System). Then we created Graphical Objects and metaphors for the real world that you could visualize and interact with. This article offers some of that history.

Handgun Emoji
Emojis mean things. But when political correctness/the left gets involved, they often pervert the language. A tool (gun) was too hostile... so they replaced it with a squirt gun instead (🔫), even though a squirt gun and a real gun have completely different meanings, and a real gun is far more common than a super soaker.

LinkedIn
American career-oriented social media (circa 2003). It makes money by selling customers data to recruiters. Bought by Microsoft (2016).

NewsGuard
Fake FactChecker that offer red/green light on whole institutions (based on politics), instead of individual articles. It plugs into browsers and offers "FakeNews" indicator, based on establishment (and leftism), not based on the actual articles contents or quality. The same story can flip colors based on which aggregator is reporting it, whether it is correct or not.

Why did IBM choose DOS?
In 1980 a big computer company was needed an OS for the computer they had slapped together. I won't mention their name, but their initials were I.B.M. They didn't have time to develop the OS themselves -- so they hunted for a microcomputer OS they could stick in, that wouldn't be a threat to their important computers (their mainframes), and in came Bill Gates.

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