sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoFormer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B…www.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down18
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minus-squareX@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·3 days agoHe also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.
minus-squarePushButton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·2 days agoWell, on that one, he’s right. We are everywhere, we are growing everyday, I don’t see what can stop that from now on. Even Microsoft is open sourcing their shit. Azure is more than 50% Linux. Fucking Microsoft has a Linux distro now! We are cancer, resistance is futile something something waves hand
minus-squareLemmyEntertainYou@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoCancer spreads quite quickly. Linux adoption sadly does not.
minus-squarenkat2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI came here to up-vote this comment. This is what I recall as well.
minus-squarejaschen306@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoI will say that I loved my Windows Phone. Way ahead of it’s time.
He also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.
He also called linux a cancer
Well, on that one, he’s right.
We are everywhere, we are growing everyday, I don’t see what can stop that from now on.
Even Microsoft is open sourcing their shit. Azure is more than 50% Linux.
Fucking Microsoft has a Linux distro now!
We are cancer, resistance is futile something something waves hand
Cancer spreads quite quickly. Linux adoption sadly does not.
I came here to up-vote this comment.
This is what I recall as well.
I will say that I loved my Windows Phone. Way ahead of it’s time.