Now lets use part of that money, to fund the development of open alternatives and interoperable protocols / standards. We cannot break a duopoly, if there aren’t any alternatives, otherwise it will keep being a duopoly.
We are talking about developing alternatives to US services, which, surprise, will need datacenters to run. You don’t provide email to 700 million people from an old laptop in a basement.
I got a Nokia Lumia at the time and the OS quality was surprisingly good. It felt much more well thought end to end than my Android is currently. But it was a mistake to force a convergence with the desktop OS.
Now lets use part of that money, to fund the development of open alternatives and interoperable protocols / standards. We cannot break a duopoly, if there aren’t any alternatives, otherwise it will keep being a duopoly.
4 billion can go a very long way.
Believe it or not, straight to data centers
Datacenters are not inherently bad…
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So what you’re saying is… they’re inherently bad.
We are talking about developing alternatives to US services, which, surprise, will need datacenters to run. You don’t provide email to 700 million people from an old laptop in a basement.
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100% agree
Not in government it doesn’t.
i can’t stand microshaft, but at least windows phone was competition.
Get on with the times, it’s microslop now.
I got a Nokia Lumia at the time and the OS quality was surprisingly good. It felt much more well thought end to end than my Android is currently. But it was a mistake to force a convergence with the desktop OS.
they were around when i was in IT, and I had to support them. they seemed pretty good, apart from the microslop.
My favourite MS thing was having a funeral for the iphone. Within a couple of years, they were having a funeral for the windows phone.