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Even the client side stuff was focused on enterprise development: Microsoft 365. Microsoft has abandoned the consumer market all together. As someone said, they should sell XBOX to Amazon.

It seems Surface Laptop sales have been horrible. Microsoft is done in the client side, they have to concentrate all their efforts in enterprise, cloud and infrastructure.

A Jeopardy player maps a phrase to a concept. That's a very specific type of question, not very useful in real life. Watson doesn't understand much about the world. Who would have predicted that Amazon would dominate the cloud business which is primarily an enterprise market? The future is hard...

Surface Pro 4.1 and Windows 10 S free for one year?

Andromeda is supposedly a desktop OS based on Android. Search engines use machine learning. Many of the Azure Cognitive services come from Bing. In its current form, machine learning works well in very narrow domains. A system capable of answering open questions on many subjects is a dream of a...

Windows on ARM and Cshell are not enough to justify a Surface Phone. Sales would be horrible. Microsoft needs a better differentiator, hard to copy and extremely attractive for a decent niche of users, to sell enough phones to recover the investment. I don't think they have such differentiator...

These kind of Herculean projects don't end well. Hope is not another WP 7-8 and Windows 8 usability disaster.

iOS dominates mobile. Android is the affordable alternative. macOS dominates the desktop. Windows the affordable alternative, although Chrome OS is growing. People spend most of their time in the browser. Chrome is the dominant browser. Xbox is a relatively small in consoles. Linux powers the...

The Real Creators Update. Creators Update was mediocre, most features were pushed to vnext.

The more important announcement at build were: Linux, itunes coming to the store Support for iOS and Android on Windows. Visual Studio for Mac. Xamarin Live Player for iOS and Android. Windows is becoming irrelevant. Even in the server side Microsoft is adopting Linux for more workloads. The...

Re: Every single laptop/tablet sold should come with Windows 10 S as default. It's not a big deal. Developers can still avoid the 30% commission. For example, the user downloads the app from the store. The app starts and ask for a login. The user goes to the developer's site, creates an...

Re: Every single laptop/tablet sold should come with Windows 10 S as default. Most people don't need the old desktop programs. Windows S would be perfect for 90-95% of the consumer market with a small selection of desktop programs in the Windows Store. Microsoft doesn't need to force consumers...

That was a good excuse for Surface and Surface pro, but not for Book and Laptop. What new tech did Surface Book or Laptop introduce? Mac revenue increased 14% last quarter. iPad revenue fell 12%. Surface revenue fell 26%, even though Microsoft introduced two new products Surface Book and...

Microsoft failed to create a high-end hardware brand to compete with Apple in the consumer market. A pessimistic could say that Windows is only for people that can't afford Apple products, although Google will soon release its converged OS as better alternative for this market. The Surface...

It started many years before when Gates neglected the web and tried to develop a proprietary alternative.