More of the Same -- Ballmer a Dullard (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-10 14:01 (#2S83) This sounds exactly like Ballmer Business as Usual -- all he knows how to do is brand things "Windows" and hope magic will happen. It's ALL he's managed to do for 30 years.Of COURSE consumers think of "Windows" as one thing already; it's what's lead to all their troubles. They were a lot better off when WinCE really did run Windows programs. Re: More of the Same -- Ballmer a Dullard (Score: 2, Funny) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-10 14:17 (#2S85) Except ... Ballmer's gone. This is probably an effort to undo a lot of the mistakes made under Ballmer's watch, like the proliferation of incompatible versions of things with the name Windows splattered over the top, hoping name recognition makes up for crappy design, engineering, and functionality.Nadella was handed a royal bag of shit, you have to admit. Consolidating the mess is a worthy endeavor but only if he can truly consolidate it from an engineering/code perspective instead of just relying on snappy marketing. Ballmer should be punished to wear a "Plays for Sure" t-shirt at every basketball game he attends, as punishment for the debacle that was seen in that marketing ploy. The t-shirt should be colored poop brown, like a Zune - another debacle. And on the back should be the words "I squirt," like the verb his team came up with for transferring pictures or music from one zune to another. Good luck, Nadella. Remember, if you light the bag of poop on fire, you'll have to drop it when it burns your hands and then squish it out with your shoe to put out the flames. Re: More of the Same -- Ballmer a Dullard (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-10 14:32 (#2S8A) That was really good. I suggest you swap that in as the summary for the article up top. :)I'm guilty of NRTFA but I don't understand how one can call-everything-Windows and mean it without rewriting EVERYTHING that isn't i386 desktop and server. It just seems like something that is Not Going To Happen by definition. It's taken them over 20 years to keep rewriting Win 3.x and NT into something usable (and then breaking it again) so I don't really see how they're going to squeeze it down to these other platforms they've managed to screw up so badly. That's why I said it sounded like more-of-the-same Ballmer idiocy.
Re: More of the Same -- Ballmer a Dullard (Score: 2, Funny) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-10 14:17 (#2S85) Except ... Ballmer's gone. This is probably an effort to undo a lot of the mistakes made under Ballmer's watch, like the proliferation of incompatible versions of things with the name Windows splattered over the top, hoping name recognition makes up for crappy design, engineering, and functionality.Nadella was handed a royal bag of shit, you have to admit. Consolidating the mess is a worthy endeavor but only if he can truly consolidate it from an engineering/code perspective instead of just relying on snappy marketing. Ballmer should be punished to wear a "Plays for Sure" t-shirt at every basketball game he attends, as punishment for the debacle that was seen in that marketing ploy. The t-shirt should be colored poop brown, like a Zune - another debacle. And on the back should be the words "I squirt," like the verb his team came up with for transferring pictures or music from one zune to another. Good luck, Nadella. Remember, if you light the bag of poop on fire, you'll have to drop it when it burns your hands and then squish it out with your shoe to put out the flames. Re: More of the Same -- Ballmer a Dullard (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-10 14:32 (#2S8A) That was really good. I suggest you swap that in as the summary for the article up top. :)I'm guilty of NRTFA but I don't understand how one can call-everything-Windows and mean it without rewriting EVERYTHING that isn't i386 desktop and server. It just seems like something that is Not Going To Happen by definition. It's taken them over 20 years to keep rewriting Win 3.x and NT into something usable (and then breaking it again) so I don't really see how they're going to squeeze it down to these other platforms they've managed to screw up so badly. That's why I said it sounded like more-of-the-same Ballmer idiocy.
Re: More of the Same -- Ballmer a Dullard (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-10 14:32 (#2S8A) That was really good. I suggest you swap that in as the summary for the article up top. :)I'm guilty of NRTFA but I don't understand how one can call-everything-Windows and mean it without rewriting EVERYTHING that isn't i386 desktop and server. It just seems like something that is Not Going To Happen by definition. It's taken them over 20 years to keep rewriting Win 3.x and NT into something usable (and then breaking it again) so I don't really see how they're going to squeeze it down to these other platforms they've managed to screw up so badly. That's why I said it sounded like more-of-the-same Ballmer idiocy.