Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).

    … which is exactly my point. What’s yours?

    Oh. And of course it’s badly debuggable and frequently goes wrong.

    Not so frequently to cause major disruptions.

    • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Much too frequently, if you need to manage systems for a company.

      THAT is my point.

      I have spent too many nights unrolling and blocking Windows updates just to keep the fucking MS Exchange server happy. Or the damned 8 year old CRM software which writes to places that Windows now blocks access to.

      Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.

      So ultimately I just jailed all the Windows stuff in VMs which I can snapshot and reliably backup, which I can roll back (mostly, as long as it does not involve Active Directory) etc. Windows is inherently unstable, that’s my point.

      The ultimate solution was to get out of that job. Yeah, I stilm do use Windows as a daily driver, but single use only, no centralized management and thats kind of OK.

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.

        No such thing exists, especially with legacy corpo software.

        Windows is inherently unstable, that’s my point.

        As a Windows admin for the past ~20 years - nonsense.