You're making the exact same argument everyone here is making, and that's because you're attempting to argue from technical parity / superiority. Windows isn't the dominant desktop OS because of it's technical superiority to Linux, it's dominant because of deeply entrenched compliance and industry reasons.
Healthcare, finance, legal, engineering (less so today, but still very sub-discipline dependant), and government all have very specific software needs that no one in their right mind will bother writing new software, or rewriting existing software, would do for 6% desktop market share.
EMR programs (Epic, Cerner, Meditech), Practice management and billing, Tax and compliance, Legal discovery and case-management tools, Niche hardware and it's control software
This is all the realm of Windows. Most of these applications are Windows-only (Win32 / .NET / ActiveX legacy), they're only certified and validated on Windows, and they're only contractually supported on Windows.
Even if Wolters-Kluwer rewrote the entire CCH ProSystem fx suite for Linux, now there's recertification, regulatory review, vendor retraining, staff retraining, potential issues with auditors and regulators, etc.
There's currently no upside large enough to justify: Vendor finger-pointing, Compliance risk, Training costs, Downtime risk
It's negative ROI all the way down.
Windows has to become so bad that switching to Linux for desktops overcomes all of the above.
Can you understand why someone would buy a $20 Mr. Coffee coffeemaker from Walmart and not a $2000 DeLonghi Eletta Explore superautomatic espresso machine?
It's because Satya is worried about next quarter's earnings call, not what Windows looks like in ten years.
BillG had that big meeting with everybody at Microsoft awhile back and basically told them they had about 6-12 months to right the ship. Personally I hope they don't. Nothing makes me happier than arrogant jackasses being utterly destroyed by life, which is what will happen if they continue to enshittify Windows.
Satya seems to forget that Azure exists because of Windows. It's the deep integration into Windows that makes it worth anything, otherwise we could all switch to Linux / Mac OS X and run everything in AWS / GCP. You quite literally don't need Azure at all for anything if you don't have Windows-based machines.
> I walked into the Google office there, made some friends, worked on a random project they were doing and ended up collaborating on an OKR a year later.
This is the coolest shit I have ever read.
Now that's a company culture of which people would want to be a part.
Because many truly talented people suffer from Imposter syndrome, or they do actually know how good they are, and are afraid of alienating people by demonstrating superior ability.
I love Nonviolent Communication, although I'm not good at implementing it and might never be. Research seems to know that so many of our traits are innate and are extremely difficult to change.
> Sports team always sounds brutal and unforgiving to me.
Good. Life is brutal and unforgiving. This modern cushy plush lifestyle that many of us enjoy is unnatural. A little toughening up and suffering is long overdue. A lot of it, for many people in the world.
This is happening because it's Peter Thiel, and he's an enemy of progressives, or at least, he is in their mind.
If it came out this was someone they like and hold dear, there'd be no article. That's why this whole article is pathetic.
By Law of Large Numbers alone, we're almost guaranteed there's another person with another Roth IRA with another outcome almost just like Peter's... but we'll never hear about it because that person didn't vocally endorse Donald Trump for president, doesn't do blood transfusions with 18 year old donors for mesenchymal stem cells, and isn't a thorn in the progressive side.