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To: upchuck

“SAAS (software as a service) has arrived. I’m not impressed.”

It’s been here since 2015. And it works.

What’s new here is the user interface, which is any browser. And the tacit admission of MS that they cannot control the end device.

Millions will opt for this.


14 posted on 07/14/2021 2:21:43 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

“ Millions will opt for this.”

And???

Millions voted for Joe and the Ho too. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Or, perhaps better stated, it doesn’t mean it’s a smart choice for many/most.


47 posted on 07/14/2021 3:04:51 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Mariner

Why should they control the device? Dell is the device. Lenovo is. Or HP. Or a hundred other vendors. A lot of what people hate about Microsoft is actually the hardware by all these vendors.

The bottom line is, outside of Surface and XBox, Microsoft is a software company—not a hardware one. They’ve always made money through selling software to run on other people’s stuff.

This looks like more of that.


61 posted on 07/14/2021 5:19:28 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Mariner

And that is the problem. Enough idiots will fall for this scam and then it will become the industry standard.


63 posted on 07/14/2021 5:29:10 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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