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A letter from Steve Ballmer in Redmond's press release section confirms he is stepping down as a board member.
In the six months since leaving [the CEO position], I have become very busy. I see a combination of the Clippers, civic contribution, teaching and study taking a lot of time. I have confidence in our approach of mobile-first, cloud-first, and in our primary innovation emphasis on platforms and productivity and the building of capability in devices and services as core business drivers. I hold more Microsoft shares than anyone other than index funds and love the mix of profits, investments and dividends returned in our stock. I expect to continue holding that position for the foreseeable future.
Given my confidence and the multitude of new commitments I am taking on now, I think it would be impractical for me to continue to serve on the board, and it is best for me to move off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @08:19PM
...and has been for years.
People are asking for Linux by name these days. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [fossforce.com]
They've learned it's the cure for drive-by infections, blue screens, and the reboot-reboot-reboot thing.
Now, if you're looking at *new* desktop systems, well, only people who run MICROS~1's bloatware -need- newer, faster hardware.
Those are **businessmen** who have always run MICROS~1's stuff and who do so because it gets them a steak dinner every few years from a M$ salesman.
Everyone else is keeping their old still-plenty-powerful hardware and replacing the MICROS~1 crapware with the $0 stuff that doesn't have the nasty characteristics associated with Redmond's junk.
Those wipe-the-crap-and-install-better-stuff instances don't show up in the sales stats.
...and, for most folks buying a computing device these days, their "desktop" is a handheld thingie.
Most of those run Linux.
When folks get home from work these days, they switch to using Linux.
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...then we get to webstats (which are gamed by the "analysts"). [google.com]
For a few days, I had a Google cache of the ZD page referenced, but Ziff-Davis can't have that much truth on one of their pages, so, of course, they quickly deleted the post.
The data collection process is biased [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [mrpogson.com]
and hides significant factors. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [mrpogson.com]
Why does 1 town skew the results so much for a state of 38 million people?
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday August 20 2014, @09:04PM
FTFY.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @09:21PM
...it must have been a stupid question.
The only way "7" becomes the "solution" is if you buy new hardware--with that pre-installed.
...meanwhile, I have always used my hardware until it completely drops dead.
I've never had any device driver concerns since I switched.
...and I have never had to deal with "product activation".
Horses for courses.
These days, in the midst of the Bush-Obama Depression, more and more folks are doing it my way.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday August 20 2014, @09:36PM
Linux zealots are worse than the Apple fanboi stereotype describes.
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(Score: 2) by meisterister on Thursday August 21 2014, @12:17AM
I don't understand why people install anything that isn't windows. Windows is the [A Fatal Exception 0E has occurred at...]
I'm really surprised that people didn't move to Linux back in the late '90s-early 2000s. Back then every version of windows (including the beloved XP) was a bloated slow POS. Also, don't give me any of this "But linux was hard to use back then!" A significant portion of the PC users at the time had used DOS at least to some extent. Also, there were graphical interfaces like KDE that were easier to use than Windows. The problem now is that Microsoft has started churning out halfway-competent versions of Windows starting with Vista. The constant steady stream of BSODs are mostly confined to overclocking or flaky hardware.
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.