If this means the end of the HTML version of Outlook, it can't happen sooner. HTML fucking sucks.

Worked for Prohibition.

Obviously there are consequences to defying the law.

Don't pretend you were making a different point, when you were just saying "fuck you, obey me."

He clearly meant morally, and laws do not make right.

Frankly, you are a coward for avoiding his meaning.

When I worked at Microsoft 12 years ago, some of our top execs were being held in a Chinese prison on some total nonsense while the company "negotiated" terms of opening some Microsoft stores in China.

Once the deal was done and they were finally released, one of them explained to us "this is just how business is done in China."

Exactly. This is good policy.

I wish I could switch, but my AMD display drivers on Linux cause my display to crash constantly so I have to reboot.

I also need to run the system in "Best Performance" mode (in Win 10), disabling some under the hood performance optimizations that cause the same crash. But I don't know how to. Fucking frustrating.

LOL

;-(

I swear, the MDS around here is hilarious.

LOL, I agree, but you sound like controlled opposition. Or a nutter.

Metro was awesome on phones, especially when you set it to translucent, it looked simply incredible. But it was absolutely out of place on the desktop.

Apps were definitely the OS' downfall. That was mainly because Google and Apple used their duopoly to keep important apps like Gmail and GMaps off the platform. They also made sure customers did not see any Windows Phones by forcing cretail outlets to hide them on a small shelf in the back. Both of these actions ensured it couldn't get traction.

But both could have been overcome if Microsoft had spent a little money on it. Satya formerly ran the Azure division and had no interest in the platform at all. It was the usual bureaucratic neglect and myopia of a technology run by MBAs since its founding. And MBAs like other MBAs and protect their turf.

To be fair, Microsoft has always been run by MBAs and marketing drones, really bad ones straight out of the 90s.

Satya Nadella seems to have zero vision other than "grow the cloud business." He's the idiot who discontinued Windows Phone (which was insanely awesome) on a whim just before going on stage at BUILD.

That's what a loan is. You borrow money and pay interest. Are you saying only western countries make loans, and that they are somehow evil for doing so??

The usual reason dirtbags get pardons, for both parties, he gave lots of money to their PACs and campaigns.