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[–] [email protected] 321 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Only semi-related: Why do they always show pictures of Gates when he hasn't been involved in MS in a long time? Why never Satya Nadella?

EDIT: Also, yes, related to the actual question already living Linux full time and when October rolls around probably gonna back up everything from the Windows side of my dual-boot and wipe the 1TB NVMe Windows is on to use as storage.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I was thinking the same thing. He will just forever be known as the guy. Maybe it will change once he dies?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe, he is indeed looking hella rough in this photo.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Seems he's using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Didn't work for Steve Jobs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't think so. Gates' shoes are big ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-harassment-inappropriate-conduct-women-microsoft-jeffrey-epstein-2021-5

You're right, it's really hard to fill the shoes of someone who abuses their power and position to try to hook up with women.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Well, I guess that Gates can't fill their own shoes too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not that hard unfortunately. I'm sure someone up to the task can fill his shoes no problem

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Personally, I think this picture of Steve Balmer is so much more iconic and should be used for every single article about Microsoft or Windows:

Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers! Developers developers developers developers!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's weird how MS's putting developers first became a joke. Back in the 80's, companies like HP and IBM had open warehouses with coders at desks lined up like factory workers. MS was the first big company to give a private office to every programmer.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The approach isn’t what became a joke, it was the absolutely unhinged way in which it was presented in that famous Ballmer stage appearance.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Oh sure, it was crazy. But the sentiment behind it was good. It's like how Howard Dean got dunked on for his scream.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'd take that any day over the unhinged AI focus from all these companies now or Google's awful documentation from the past few years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I couldn't name another Microsoft employee if a gun was to my head. but I can still vividly remember myself in 4th grade reading about Bill Gate's mega mansion in Popular Mechanics for Kids

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Steve Ballmer! Developers developers developers! That's the other one I know

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I'm somewhat in the same boat but I remember Mister "Developers Developers Developers" Steve Ballmer who was also immortalized by the "Ballmer Peak" XKCD. https://xkcd.com/323/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

He would be also be a reasonable person to include on an article citing Steam data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Holy shit I remember that article too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I could but that’s because a friend of mine works on the legacy rendering code in Excel. He has some traumatic war stories to share.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because he set the general, evil directions for MS. Like keeping users uninformed and locked in, smearing the competition, sabotaging open standards, taking your control over your hardware and data away from users, etc. All happened during evil Bill's reign.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Not to mention the many deals with hardware manufacturers in order to avoid competing OSs to have any chance. They managed to kill BeOS and dominate the Japanese market in the 90s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I was wondering why Bill Gates would be talking about Steam users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's maybe some kind of circular logic, but my brain doesn't recognize a picture of Satya Nadella = "Microsoft's CEO" for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe your brain would, if it had a chance to connect the two if they posted more pictures of Satya and Microsoft in the same context...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, its maybe some kind of circular logic that their brain doesn't make that link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's probably some kind of circular logic, I dunno. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm here, so I'm more likely to know who that is or what he looks like. But I don't. I do now because you mentioned him and I looked up how he looks like. Your average Joe is gonna be even less likely to know who that is or what he looks like. So I'm guessing that's why. Some CEOs just avoid the spotlight. Or maybe I've just been avoiding MS news, dunno

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's a vicious cycle. The media don't use Satya Nadella's name or picture much, so people don't know who he is or how he looks like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Optics or marketing, it's the same reason LLMs are all called AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Under his watch they did form the anti-opensource and EEE mantra