Microsoft News

  • About Those 100 Million Windows 8 Sales by TechNightOwl, May 8, 2013 – Whereas Apple reports real sales, most of the other companies are reporting units shipped. It’s very easy to rack up a couple of million or so of each model just to reach all the resellers and distributors. It doesn’t mean all that product is actually sold, and it would be curious to see how many are eventually disposed of at fire sales, or returned to the manufacturer, depending on their return policies.
  • I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why – At Microsoft, trying to be helpful by spontaneously trying to do something for a feature/product outside your scope is a sin and instead of praise you get scolded. You only need to get scolded a couple of times to realize you shouldn’t do that ever again.

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