<story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>Microsoft&amp;#x27;s server software is actually top-notch and has been for years. Server 2003 was rough, but after that MS really started improving the management tools and allowing a lot more command line via powershell, etc.&lt;p&gt;And in corporate America, Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Server products are near-ubiquitous. Consider that most of the in-house workflow tools at any company are built in Sharepoint -- and Sharepoint is actually a great platform for business apps (and easy to hire developers for). Exchange&amp;#x2F;Outlook&amp;#x2F;Lync is a great corporate collaboration suite that mostly &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot;. And from what I&amp;#x27;ve seen, Google Apps isn&amp;#x27;t really a threat for Microsoft -- it&amp;#x27;s largely just displacing Lotus Notes at the bottom end of the market.</text></item><item><author>pcunite</author><text>What Microsoft has done today is prove they&amp;#x27;re very focused about providing a top of the line personal computing experience. You can argue about server, but when it comes to applications (which are floating windows), Microsoft Windows has proven they can keep that title for their operating system.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad to see them take ownership over the hardware. That has always been the black mark. I build my own PCs and always bought ThinkPad to keep the good experience. Now, Microsoft can help others who don&amp;#x27;t or can&amp;#x27;t do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Karunamon</author><text>At the risk of sounding overly snarky: Top-notch does not mean putting the Goddamned Metro UI, a thing for &lt;i&gt;users&lt;/i&gt; on &lt;i&gt;touch screens&lt;/i&gt;, on a Goddamned SERVER OS like they did with 2012.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s insanity. Every time I have to RDP into a 2012 machine, I cringe a bit. Whoever was responsible for that decision should be shot, and the corpse fired.&lt;p&gt;For all Microsoft has been doing to improve their standing lately, they still make some rather absurd missteps...</text></comment>
<story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>Microsoft&amp;#x27;s server software is actually top-notch and has been for years. Server 2003 was rough, but after that MS really started improving the management tools and allowing a lot more command line via powershell, etc.&lt;p&gt;And in corporate America, Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Server products are near-ubiquitous. Consider that most of the in-house workflow tools at any company are built in Sharepoint -- and Sharepoint is actually a great platform for business apps (and easy to hire developers for). Exchange&amp;#x2F;Outlook&amp;#x2F;Lync is a great corporate collaboration suite that mostly &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot;. And from what I&amp;#x27;ve seen, Google Apps isn&amp;#x27;t really a threat for Microsoft -- it&amp;#x27;s largely just displacing Lotus Notes at the bottom end of the market.</text></item><item><author>pcunite</author><text>What Microsoft has done today is prove they&amp;#x27;re very focused about providing a top of the line personal computing experience. You can argue about server, but when it comes to applications (which are floating windows), Microsoft Windows has proven they can keep that title for their operating system.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad to see them take ownership over the hardware. That has always been the black mark. I build my own PCs and always bought ThinkPad to keep the good experience. Now, Microsoft can help others who don&amp;#x27;t or can&amp;#x27;t do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lighthawk</author><text>&amp;gt; Lync... &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Those are two things that I would never say together. Lync is great if you are all on Windows within the same building or campus perhaps, but the video quality is horrible compared to Google Hangout or (consumer) Skype for cross country and international communication.&lt;p&gt;Also: Lync is now called &amp;quot;Skype for Business&amp;quot; and old Lync will be sunsetted per &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.gigaom.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft-announces-skype-for-business-will-retire-lync&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.gigaom.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;microsoft-announces-skype...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>