sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours 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-square31fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down17
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minus-squareX@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·17 hours 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-squarejaschen306@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI will say that I loved my Windows Phone. Way ahead of it’s time.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·17 hours agoHe also called linux a cancer
minus-squareLemmyEntertainYou@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoCancer spreads quite quickly. Linux adoption sadly does not.
minus-squarePushButton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·14 hours 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-squarenkat2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoI came here to up-vote this comment. This is what I recall as well.
He also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.
I will say that I loved my Windows Phone. Way ahead of it’s time.
He also called linux a cancer
Cancer spreads quite quickly. Linux adoption sadly does not.
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
I came here to up-vote this comment.
This is what I recall as well.