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Originally posted by numacross View PostAnd you are ignoring computing history. IBM still earns billions by selling mainframes that provide backwards compatibility. I'd wager there's way more x86 software that will need a platform to run on in the future.
Say, with everyone moving to cloud computing where do you see x86 software there, hmm? You're not going to tell me we're all going to run x86-emulators in our browsers tomorrow, are you?
Nobody cares anymore what CPU is inside your computer. And do look at IBM there, too. They do build their own CPUs and use them in their big machines and with Linux.
So come again and tell me how Microsoft is relevant. They're not. They may still be a big company and may make billions, but they have no further future. Your favorite supermarket chain will have a better future than what Microsoft has got, all while you probably care little for supermarket chains.
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Originally posted by sdack View PostNo, I'm not. You're the one who keeps looking at the money. It's then all you see and can see. Better look at the business.
Say, with everyone moving to cloud computing where do you see x86 software there, hmm? You're not going to tell me we're all going to run x86-emulators in our browsers tomorrow, are you?
If you're saying the world is moving into the cloud then Microsoft is already there, big time.
Originally posted by sdack View PostNobody cares anymore what CPU is inside your computer. And do look at IBM there, too. They do build their own CPUs and use them in their big machines and with Linux.
So come again and tell me how Microsoft is relevant. They're not. They may still be a big company and may make billions, but they have no further future. Your favorite supermarket chain will have a better future than what Microsoft has got, all while you probably care little for supermarket chains.
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Originally posted by sdack View PostAnd with that do I quit the discussion, because you can not look beyond money, sadly. Money isn't everything ... but you will argue otherwise.
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Originally posted by sdack View PostNobody cares anymore what CPU is inside your computer.
For other architectures to hit it off in the consumer market (aka Microsoft's fun house), users need to change their habits and re-educate more than you think.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View Post
The enterprise doesn't and developers don't but consumers with their silly little Steam games and their fancy bloated Gnome 3 Wayland desktops are very much stuck to Intel.
For other architectures to hit it off in the consumer market (aka Microsoft's fun house), users need to change their habits and re-educate more than you think.
Also, developers very much care, not sure what world it is where integer types are all the same size and there's no assembler or platform-specific behavior anywhere.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View PostMicrosoft are guaranteed to fsck us all over at some point but luckily the nature of Git means that it will be easy to move everything to other servers when the time comes, including commit history etc.
Except that never happened and then they open sourced .NET themselves.
Originally posted by kpedersen View PostMicrosoft are guaranteed to fsck us all over at some point but luckily the nature of Git means that it will be easy to move everything to other servers when the time comes, including commit history etc.
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