03.04.12
Gemini version available ♊︎Time to Dump Microsoft
If time is money…
Summary: Microsoft still cannot code clocks correctly, showing rather clearly its inability to get the basics done, with very severe consequences
THE MICROSOFT meltdown we wrote about some days ago is a timely reminder that Microsoft does not grasp time. SJVN has another interesting take on it:
Everyone makes mistakes, but for Microsoft to make a killer leap day blunder with its Azure cloud service is inexcusable.
He continues:
Even after Microsoft had a fix in, faults continued to spread across the Azure cloud in America and Northern Europe. As some areas came back up Compute functionality in the North Central US, South Central US and North Europe regions, functionality was downgraded or even turned off on a range of Azure services.
It’s all because Microsoft cannot code and something similar happened to Zune some years back (clock issues, see our Zune Reality Log). Azure has just suffered the fate of Zune. █
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walterbyrd said,
March 4, 2012 at 9:58 am
XP is, soon to be, three OS releases back. But will probably still be the most popular MS operating system.
MS does not wow consumers the way they used to.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
March 4th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Did they ever? Even in “Win95″ days it was in part organic.
“In January of 1994, Waggener Edstrom began recruiting 100 key editors, 32 analysts, and 150 third-party vendors for the Windows 95 bandwagon. Lining up the national media and the business press was easy. Edstrom had been massaging those relationships for over a decade, sending flowers and cartoons and reminding editors of their spouses’ birthdays and wedding anniversaries, earning her “Gates’s keeper” reputation. Not only would these people tout Windows 95, they would also be more inclined to show sympathy for Microsoft when competitors started ragging them.”
–Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composed
by the daughter of Microsoft’s Pam Edstrom