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Funny, just last week I got an old MacBook as a trade... let's see what this new Xamarin Studio can do

Some perspective on WinFS (Part 1): http://hal2020.com/2013/02/14/winfs-integratedunified-storage-and-microsoft-part-1/

All the technologies and visions listed in the article were, in fact, in WinFS. The main problem is that it was such a big attempt that trying to reduce it to a sound bite or a quip would not have done it justice.

Too early for its time, probably.

Now, Hailstorm on the other hand... that was cool

@kettch: Before joining Microsoft in 2006, I had a copy of WinFS beta 1 installed on my desktop at home. Plenty of bugs and perf was not there, but it was very obvious what WinFS was and what problem was trying to solve.

Once I joined, I worked with some of the guys who actually built it.

Saying that "has no standard interpretation in the company" is simply not true.

53 minutes ago, magicalclick wrote

...something that has no standard interpretation in the company.

Wut?

6 minutes ago, dentaku wrote
If they fix the problems people are having with getting SD cards to integrate into the OS more like an internal HDD or SSD (which they've promised) then the 64GB model might be OK because you could store all your large videos and photos on a 64GB SD card.

Wait, what problems? I put a 32Gb in my RT and it worked flawlessly.

Are you really going to let your life be dictated by fact checkers?

I think there's a problem in how Microsoft communicates with outside of the campus.

For example, calling a technology "legacy" doesn't mean that it's obsolete or abandoned. The day after Vista shipped, for example, everybody in the Windows team called it (Vista) legacy, as opposed to the new OS that was in development, to avoid internal confusion.

That makes perfect sense within the organization, but when exposed to the outside world, where these words have different attached connotations, it creates confusion.

Another aspect is the continued effort from all the industry to use acronyms and shorthands to indicate concepts that could be very well communicated in a plainer fashion. Just yesterday, an architect in my team kept using a couple of acronyms (because that's what they do all day in their job) when in a meeting with the business team. I noticed that their eyes were glazing away and I interrupted with "hang on a sec. Guys, do you know what <xxx> means? No? It stands for blah blah blah". Took two seconds and everyone was happy. But that happened because there was an immediate interaction and explanation, and that's hard when you communicate via email or press releases.

There is no relaunch.

2 hours ago, figuerres wrote

http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/stock-price?Symbol=msft

look at "income Growth"  -26.7%

so that doe snot seem good ... keep that up and then what ?

You need to consider that Windows 8 launched at the end of the year (with a decent pent-up demand, so sales of Windows 7 were low) and Office 2013 will launch shortly, so pretty much anyone who wanted to buy Office is waiting on the new version.

Once you take that into account, these numbers are in stark contrast with the "reality" that we are present daily from all the pretend analysts and regular trolls...