Personally, I think this picture of Steve Balmer is so much more iconic and should be used for every single article about Microsoft or Windows:
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Only semi-related: Why do they always show pictures of Gates when he hasn’t been involved in MS in a long time? Why never Satya Nadella?
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s weird how MS’s putting developers first became a joke. Back in the 80’s, companies like HP and IBM had open warehouses with coders at desks lined up like factory workers. MS was the first big company to give a private office to every programmer.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The approach isn’t what became a joke, it was the absolutely unhinged way in which it was presented.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh sure, it was crazy. But the sentiment behind it was good. It’s like how Howard Dean got dunked on for his scream.
pycorax@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’d take that any day over the unhinged AI focus from all these companies now or Google’s awful documentation from the past few years.
towelie@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I couldn’t name another Microsoft employee if a gun was to my head. but I can still vividly remember myself in 4th grade reading about Bill Gate’s mega mansion in Popular Mechanics for Kids
omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Steve Balmer! Developers developers developers! That’s the other one I know
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Gabe Newell?
Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m somewhat in the same boat but I remember Mister “Developers Developers Developers” Steve Ballmer who was also immortalized by the “Ballmer Peak” XKCD. xkcd.com/323/
tyler@programming.dev 1 week ago
Holy shit I remember that article too!
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I could but that’s because a friend of mine works on the legacy rendering code in Excel. He has some traumatic war stories to share.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 week ago
Because he set the general, evil directions for MS. Like keeping users uninformed and locked in, smearing the competition, sabotaging open standards, taking your control over your hardware and data away from users, etc. All happened during evil Bill’s reign.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 week ago
Not to mention the many deals with hardware manufacturers in order to avoid competing OSs to have any chance. They managed to kill BeOS and dominate the Japanese market in the 90s
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was wondering why Bill Gates would be talking about Steam users.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 week ago
It’s maybe some kind of circular logic, but my brain doesn’t recognize a picture of Satya Nadella = “Microsoft’s CEO” for some reason.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe your brain would, if it had a chance to connect the two if they posted more pictures of Satya and Microsoft in the same context…
Wooki@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Under his watch they did form the anti-opensource and EEE mantra
nyctre@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m here, so I’m more likely to know who that is or what he looks like. But I don’t. I do now because you mentioned him and I looked up how he looks like. Your average Joe is gonna be even less likely to know who that is or what he looks like. So I’m guessing that’s why. Some CEOs just avoid the spotlight. Or maybe I’ve just been avoiding MS news, dunno
tauren@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It’s a vicious cycle. The media don’t use Satya Nadella’s name or picture much, so people don’t know who he is or how he looks like.
NRay7882@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Optics or marketing, it’s the same reason LLMs are all called AI.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was thinking the same thing. He will just forever be known as the guy. Maybe it will change once he dies?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Maybe, he is indeed looking hella rough in this photo.
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Didn’t work for Steve Jobs.
capuccino@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think so. Gate’s shoes are big ones.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
businessinsider.com/bill-gates-harassment-inappro…
You’re right, it’s really hard to fill the shoes of someone who abuses their power and position to try to hook up with women.
capuccino@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, I guess that Gates can’t fill their own shoes too
UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 6 days ago
Not that hard unfortunately. I’m sure someone up to the task can fill his shoes no problem