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   From: NIXCAPSsailfish@NIXCAPSunforgettable.com   
      
   nospam graced us with on 6/18/2021 2:16 PM:   
   >   
   > bill gates is long gone, as is steve ballmer.   
   >   
   > satya nadella runs the show now.   
   >   
   Riiiight. Certainly a man of his worth has NO influence on the company   
   that continues to pay him hefty dividends.   
      
   >> Apple has become with their wall-garden approach.   
   >   
   > the only walls are the ones people put up on their own.   
   >   
   heh, the ol' wax-philosophical straw man counter ploy.   
      
   >> Apple successfully   
   >> separated their MacOS systems (non-walled garden) from the iOS   
   >> (walled-garden) ones.   
   >   
   > they're different devices, designed in different eras and with   
   > different design goals.   
   >   
   Agree   
   > ios took lessons from the problems in mac os and windows and other   
   > devices over the last 40ish years.   
   >   
   Agree   
   > also, mobile devices have a lot more personal data on them, making them   
   > a *much* higher value target.   
   >   
   Sure, though, not sure that was Jobs thought at the time.   
      
   Anyway, I'm not trying slime Apple for its founder's genius for   
   innovation. The iPhone was one of our generation's most revolutionary   
   inventions that even today is a major societal leveling tool and a curse   
   to privacy and child protection.   
      
   My point is that all multinational companies, hi-tech especially, care   
   only about bottom lines and how to increase them, including micros~1.   
      
   >> Microsoft could very well be trying to do the same   
   >> thing, again.   
   >   
   > that would break shitloads of software.   
   >   
   Well, as I said, if they took care of their enterprise accounts and   
   users willing to pay for the privilege via an "ultimate" offering, I see   
   see them doing the calculus that breaking a shitload of software that   
   they don't get any revenue from makes perfect sense.   
      
   >> Multinationals seldom do anything that won't (in their minds) increase   
   >> market share AND quarterly revenues. I suspect Windows 11 (or whatever   
   >> they decide to call it) will be a move in that direction.   
   >   
   > they have a fiduciary obligation to their shareholders.   
      
   That's why Microsoft released Vista when lots beta tester (myself   
   included, warned them about mass incompatibilities and why they released   
   Win8 and then knowing that those UI's created significant regression   
   problems to the solid Win7 install base. They make mistakes based on   
   faulty premises.   
      
   Additionally, there are rumors that the new system will reside on their   
   Azure cloud and unbridle the user from the need to even need a   
   sophisticated box to run programs. If that were to come about, I suspect   
   that allowing people to run their own roll-your-own programs on the   
   cloud would be highly unlikely.   
      
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