• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Only semi-related: Why do they always show pictures of Gates when he hasn’t been involved in MS in a long time? Why never Satya Nadella?

    EDIT: Also, yes, related to the actual question already living Linux full time and when October rolls around probably gonna back up everything from the Windows side of my dual-boot and wipe the 1TB NVMe Windows is on to use as storage.

    • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Personally, I think this picture of Steve Balmer is so much more iconic and should be used for every single article about Microsoft or Windows:

      Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers!

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        It’s weird how MS’s putting developers first became a joke. Back in the 80’s, companies like HP and IBM had open warehouses with coders at desks lined up like factory workers. MS was the first big company to give a private office to every programmer.

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          4 months ago

          The approach isn’t what became a joke, it was the absolutely unhinged way in which it was presented in that famous Ballmer stage appearance.

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            4 months ago

            Oh sure, it was crazy. But the sentiment behind it was good. It’s like how Howard Dean got dunked on for his scream.

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      4 months ago

      It’s maybe some kind of circular logic, but my brain doesn’t recognize a picture of Satya Nadella = “Microsoft’s CEO” for some reason.

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        4 months ago

        Maybe your brain would, if it had a chance to connect the two if they posted more pictures of Satya and Microsoft in the same context…