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0 pointsnailer5y ago0 comments

The most popular consumer OS is Android. Arguing anything else goes against all known stats.

Microsoft's renaissance is mainly due to Nadella focusing on software and services instead of selling Windows. You mentioned Xbox as a way to support Ballmer. The Xbox story mentioned in the article does not support Ballmer.

Agreed re Azure but I don't know if Ballmer was still focusing on Windows for Azure, which seems likely. Keep in mind Azure is mostly Linux instances today.

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pjmlp5y ago

Try to do Office documents for school work on Android.

thekyle5y ago

Office has a native version for Android with apparently over a hundred million downloads.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

pjmlp5y ago

The point wasn't that it isn't available, and indeed lots of people use it to read documents.

The point was about actually working on documents with a proper level of quality that aspires to good evaluations.

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rantwasp5y ago

huh? ms making money on android. shocker

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0 pointsnailer5y ago0 comments

The most popular consumer OS is Android. Arguing anything else goes against all known stats.

Agreed re Azure but I don't know if Ballmer was still focusing on Windows for Azure, which seems likely. Keep in mind Azure is mostly Linux instances today.

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pjmlp5y ago

Try to do Office documents for school work on Android.

thekyle5y ago

Office has a native version for Android with apparently over a hundred million downloads.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

pjmlp5y ago

The point wasn't that it isn't available, and indeed lots of people use it to read documents.

The point was about actually working on documents with a proper level of quality that aspires to good evaluations.

1 more reply

rantwasp5y ago

huh? ms making money on android. shocker

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse