Tearing a strip off Microsoft's Brazilian: That's no way to attract mates It would appear that the Not Invented Here philosophy is still going strong inside Microsoft, with Redmond apparently considering unleashing into the market a rival to mega online shopping juggernauts Amazon and eBay. The Wall Street Journal reports Microsoft had been briefing unnamed people about an effort called “Brazil” – …
I assume once MS has gained market dominance all transactions will be in Microbit coins, which change format every three months, with no backward compatibility. The payment screen will eventually morph into a grabbing hand, where only one of the fingers actuates a payment to the vendor, the others are just back door opportunities for ten year old hackers and assorted agencies of evil.
and finally, after a year, a letter will arrive asking you to renew your subscription to that digi camera you bought or return it. Seems you only rented it.
. please go and invent something new, that people may want, rather than re-imagining what already exists.
And don't treat us like idiots with artificial lock-ins - make it cross platform.
You did it before, go do it again.
If you need to get Bill back for some inspiration, go for it.
p.s. You may stand a better chance listening to the kids.
Says the big W about Brazil:
"...set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,[1][2] except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure."
D'ya think whoever thought up the name...?
Nah.
Quoth TheOtherHobbes:
"...set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,[1][2] except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure."
Funnily enough that's pretty much the impression that I get whenever I come across a workplace that has been taking a long hard pull on Microsoft Kool-Aid for a decade or so. The "buffoonish slapstick quality" bit sums up the current fashion for running 1 app per box and then using VMs to aggregate them all back together again, sometimes it feels as though we haven't moved on since Windows for Workgroups (aka 3.11).
Crackers would have loved a Microsoft company based eCommerce environment as nirvana, where they could exploit the weaknesses in Microsoft security to extract billions from participating merchants and shoppers.
Imagine an on-line customer being informed that their Credit Card accounts was successfully charged for $25,000.00 in purchase of a normally $300.00 Windows PC, and the funds already transferred to a foreign bank.
Microsoft cannot even get control of botnets exploiting their networks and stealing $500 million plus, to end up seeking assistance from FBI.
Doesn't the Amazon flow OUT from Brazil (into the Atlantic Ocean)?
Of course Brazilian has come to mean something entirely different (being very sparse) and maybe that is what they were thinking about, stripped bare!
Parting comment: Of course, it is Microsoft, so it goes into the "We don't care" category.
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