and the mac Mini M2 is pretty amazing, so you'll get that secondary benefit also :-DAlso, I just needed more of an excuse to still be coming to this site daily still after not having a mac lol...
and the mac Mini M2 is pretty amazing, so you'll get that secondary benefit also :-DAlso, I just needed more of an excuse to still be coming to this site daily still after not having a mac lol...
I saw that and don't quite really know what to think. I agree with the poor choices but he was the only person I would put up there with Steve Jobs on presentation of keynotes and I could tell he really cared but I am interested to see what comes out next. Since they are having a Surface event in a few days and he leaves right before it makes me curious if maybe he didn't agree with the new changes coming, which might be a good thing.I'm not sure if this was mentioned: Panos Panay, leader of the Surface and Windows teams, is leaving Microsoft
If I was grading his performance, I would rate him a D minus. I think MSFT had so many opportunities to succeed with the Surface but shot themselves in the foot, either because of poor design choices, poor marketing, and/or poor pricing decisions.
While the Surface line may be successful in some respects I think it could have been more so
Yep the surface line was 10 out of 10 for innovation but always 6 out of 10 for implementation as most were nerfed by some poor hardware option'sI'm not sure if this was mentioned: Panos Panay, leader of the Surface and Windows teams, is leaving Microsoft
If I was grading his performance, I would rate him a D minus. I think MSFT had so many opportunities to succeed with the Surface but shot themselves in the foot, either because of poor design choices, poor marketing, and/or poor pricing decisions.
While the Surface line may be successful in some respects I think it could have been more so
LOL, all too true...OMG OMG OMG it's reveal time soon ... hyped ... dare I say "pumped"? 🤣
Yeah - apparently to work for Amazon in their devices division ....Panos Panay has left Microsoft I thought Surface was his baby
Seems like not anymore and money talks...Panos Panay has left Microsoft I thought Surface was his baby
Yeah - apparently to work for Amazon in their devices division ....
Seems like not anymore and money talks...
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MacBook Pro M2 Max is getting burned right now om GPU rendering... Kinda surprised they decided to outright attack the MacBook like that.
Speculating he was offered a decent amount more and possibly dissatisfied with MS at the same time.you think it's a money issue?
Speculating he was offered a decent amount more and possibly dissatisfied with MS at the same time.
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The core devices are ok - Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are pretty solid offerings, if a bit pricy and usually with quite dated internals from release. The Go products are just bad though. They were built to hit a price point and there's so much compromise - bad plastic chassis, eMMC storage, low resolution displays. It cheapens Surface as a halo brand.If the reports of Microsoft scaling back on products is true (apparently they cut Duo 3, Surface Studio 3 and so on) then I can understand why he's decided to leave. It seems like no one wants service devices, Duo has been a flop and most people buy iPad's over Surface Pros. All in all I'm surprised Microsoft haven't just stopped Surface altogether, I suspect the only reason they haven't is because it's worth around 2 Billion!!
While Surface devices were aspirational, originally conceived to illustrate what could be done in the 2in1 space. They have suffered from weak performance and high pricing without the following Apple has. The major OEM's now know how to design & produce good 2in1's with quality and reasonable pricing.If the reports of Microsoft scaling back on products is true (apparently they cut Duo 3, Surface Studio 3 and so on) then I can understand why he's decided to leave. It seems like no one wants service devices, Duo has been a flop and most people buy iPad's over Surface Pros. All in all I'm surprised Microsoft haven't just stopped Surface altogether, I suspect the only reason they haven't is because it's worth around 2 Billion!!
Is like that in many big corporations. I walked away and far happier for it, lot more to life than $$$. If your a visionary constrained by the bookkeepers your going to go sooner or later as they lack your vision that pays their wage...The head of the division just got s***canned (I mean he 'resigned')? The Go is now business-only? Half the projects have been discontinued? I've unfortunately been on this ride before.
We're witnessing Microsoft doing to Surface what they did to their phone line. They'll keep it around with fewer and fewer products, slowly suffocating it while publicly stating "Oh we're totally still committed to Surface" right up until they finally, quietly, kill it for good.
They just can't help themselves. Any time they make something good, they have to destroy it while giving a big middle finger to the fans they created.
Having said that, maybe I'll find a way to snag a Surface Go 4. Two more cores and an 256gb SSD is a nice upgrade, even if I did wish there was more RAM. Unlike my Zune and my Windows Phones, it won't become a paperweight when Microsoft gives up on it.
The core devices are ok - Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are pretty solid offerings, if a bit pricy and usually with quite dated internals from release. The Go products are just bad though. They were built to hit a price point and there's so much compromise - bad plastic chassis, eMMC storage, low resolution displays. It cheapens Surface as a halo brand.