fishy chip story ? Thurrott claims MS execs lied to Nadella re Surface quality issues
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Noted Windows' tail-wagger and gossip-monger claims he's seen a memo: [^]
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Since then, however, another trusted source at Microsoft has provided with a different take on this story. Microsoft, I’m told, fabricated the story about Intel being at fault. The real problem was Surface-specific custom drivers and settings that the Microsoft hardware team cooked up. The Skylake fiasco came to a head internally when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and asked the firm, then the world’s biggest maker of PCs, how it was dealing with the Skylake reliability issues. Lenovo was confused. No one was having any issues, he was told. I assume this led to some interesting conversations between the members of the Microsoft senior leadership team.
I continue to look ... askance.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Noted Windows' tail-wagger and gossip-monger claims he's seen a memo: [^]
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Since then, however, another trusted source at Microsoft has provided with a different take on this story. Microsoft, I’m told, fabricated the story about Intel being at fault. The real problem was Surface-specific custom drivers and settings that the Microsoft hardware team cooked up. The Skylake fiasco came to a head internally when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and asked the firm, then the world’s biggest maker of PCs, how it was dealing with the Skylake reliability issues. Lenovo was confused. No one was having any issues, he was told. I assume this led to some interesting conversations between the members of the Microsoft senior leadership team.
I continue to look ... askance.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
Not surprised, falls right in line with the rest of MS half assed frameworks and products.
Wout
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Not surprised, falls right in line with the rest of MS half assed frameworks and products.
Wout
You could apply that comment to pretty much anyone. I'd be happy to sit down and go on for days about Apple. And Google. And pretty much any man-bun smashed-avocado powered $300 connected device whose software I've had to deal with lately.
cheers Chris Maunder
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You could apply that comment to pretty much anyone. I'd be happy to sit down and go on for days about Apple. And Google. And pretty much any man-bun smashed-avocado powered $300 connected device whose software I've had to deal with lately.
cheers Chris Maunder
I stay far away from all consumer shit. I've been very happy with using HP business notebooks (elitebook/zbook) for about a decade, very robust products that don't break down after 6 months of use.
Wout
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Noted Windows' tail-wagger and gossip-monger claims he's seen a memo: [^]
Quote:
Since then, however, another trusted source at Microsoft has provided with a different take on this story. Microsoft, I’m told, fabricated the story about Intel being at fault. The real problem was Surface-specific custom drivers and settings that the Microsoft hardware team cooked up. The Skylake fiasco came to a head internally when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and asked the firm, then the world’s biggest maker of PCs, how it was dealing with the Skylake reliability issues. Lenovo was confused. No one was having any issues, he was told. I assume this led to some interesting conversations between the members of the Microsoft senior leadership team.
I continue to look ... askance.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
So, clueless idiots lie to a slightly less clueless idiot. Big surprise.
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Noted Windows' tail-wagger and gossip-monger claims he's seen a memo: [^]
Quote:
Since then, however, another trusted source at Microsoft has provided with a different take on this story. Microsoft, I’m told, fabricated the story about Intel being at fault. The real problem was Surface-specific custom drivers and settings that the Microsoft hardware team cooked up. The Skylake fiasco came to a head internally when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and asked the firm, then the world’s biggest maker of PCs, how it was dealing with the Skylake reliability issues. Lenovo was confused. No one was having any issues, he was told. I assume this led to some interesting conversations between the members of the Microsoft senior leadership team.
I continue to look ... askance.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
Incidentally, I use a Surface [3?] tablet daily as part of a project. Not impressed, especially with the moronic screen aspect ratio it uses. Then again, I'm not a fan of most tablets.