Posted on 01/31/2016 7:41:13 AM PST by Scutter
On Thursday, February 4, Satya Nadella will celebrate his second anniversary as the CEO of Microsoft.
It's been an eventful couple of years.
Microsoft has grown its crucial cloud business, released Windows 10 to a much better reception than its loathed predecessor, launched a bunch of great apps for iPhone and Android, and generally made people like it a lot more.
But the real victory of Satya Nadella — the truly monumental shift — has been within the company. Under Nadella, Microsoft is pointed in one direction for first time in modern memory.
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I never have understood comments like this about boot up time. I wouldn't care if my Linux desktop took ten minutes to boot, because it's something that only happens quarterly at best, and that's only if I'm wanting to upgrade to the latest kernel.For almost any other software installation and updates, rebooting is not required so it's not an issue.
Unless you're rebooting your computer multiple times per day, boot time should really not even be a consideration.
Unless you’re rebooting your computer multiple times per day, boot time should really not even be a consideration.
Yeah, it's my opinion. Having worked on everyhting from mainframes, to minicomputers to PCs in a professional capacity for about 30 years, I'd say it's a somewhat educated one. A properly designed computer should almost never have to be rebooted unless you're patching something really low-level like a kernel, or a catastrophic hardware failure.
One of the things I really dislike about Microsoft is that they've managed to convince people that computers are fragile, tempermental beasts that will flake out at the slightest perturbation of their operating state, and that it is normal for a computer to have to be rebooted just because it's been running for a while.Just because Microsoft can't manage to code an operating system that won't lose track of its internal state over time does not mean other organizations should set the bar for reliability as low as Microsoft apparently does.
Rebooting a computer is not a "solution" to a problem, it's just a band-aid used to cover up fundamental and systemic faiure in design and execution.
Don't even get me started on how incredibly primitive their patching systems are.
You’re not a regular on MS threads, are you? Get over yourself. The anti-MS, Nix uber alles BS is boring and tiresome, esp on a thread that has nothing to do with Linux.
“Get over yourself.”
Indeed. You should heed your own advice, FRiend.
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