The [Tech] world has changed ..

[UCFBS]

My, my, in just a matter of a couple of years, how the tech world has changed ...

- Microsoft releases .NET Core 2.0 on all major platforms (even if a subset, it's a great sequel), especially their primary competitor in the paid server OS space

- Intel unofficially but finally kills off Atom's future, just a year after re-licensing ARM (after originally killing off their ARM 10 years earlier)

I really think Intel is doing too little, too late -- especially with AMD hitting them hard at both the consumer desktop as well as workstation/server in the last decade of x86-64 dominance -- but Microsoft has definitely made all the smart moves, and really put their future into their Cloud services.

We'll see if Microsoft's changes ensure continued, solid leadership long-term, and how bad Intel's past missteps continue to hurt their future.

 

[NinjaKnight]

 

[reddog4720]

My, my, in just a matter of a couple of years, how the tech world has changed ...

- Microsoft releases .NET Core 2.0 on all major platforms (even if a subset, it's a great sequel), especially their primary competitor in the paid server OS space

- Intel unofficially but finally kills off Atom's future, just a year after re-licensing ARM (after originally killing off their ARM 10 years earlier)

I really think Intel is doing too little, too late -- especially with AMD hitting them hard at both the consumer desktop as well as workstation/server in the last decade of x86-64 dominance -- but Microsoft has definitely made all the smart moves, and really put their future into their Cloud services.

We'll see if Microsoft's changes ensure continued, solid leadership long-term, and how bad Intel's past missteps continue to hurt their future.

I dabbled with Azure but wasn't impressed. I deal with more low level cloud and CDN setups and Azure seemed more aligned for businesses that are far bigger than mine.

Amazon's AWS is great for my needs. Their S3 server has been rock solid for years and I just recently started to use their Cloud Front for a CDN and love it.

 

[UCFhonors]

I dabbled with Azure but wasn't impressed. I deal with more low level cloud and CDN setups and Azure seemed more aligned for businesses that are far bigger than mine.

Amazon's AWS is great for my needs. Their S3 server has been rock solid for years and I just recently started to use their Cloud Front for a CDN and love it.

I think Azure is the future. But it looks like you'll need a trained desecrated operator despite their claims that anyone can do it. It'll take time before the average MS suite users switches over.

 

[UCFKnight85]

CSH

 

[UCFBS]

I dabbled with Azure but wasn't impressed. I deal with more low level cloud and CDN setups and Azure seemed more aligned for businesses that are far bigger than mine.
Amazon's AWS is great for my needs. Their S3 server has been rock solid for years and I just recently started to use their Cloud Front for a CDN and love it.

I think Azure is the future. But it looks like you'll need a trained desecrated operator despite their claims that anyone can do it. It'll take time before the average MS suite users switches over.

Azure is the 'default choice' for businesses that buy Microsoft. It's far from perfect, has many downsides, but does what most people want. Azure is quite akin to Sharepoint, not the best, even bloated in areas, grossly deficient in others, but for most businesses that only buy Microsoft, it does the job.

Furthermore, because both governments and the Fortune 500 refused to use Azure until Microsoft started certifying Red Hat products, Microsoft was forced to start porting software. That was a very good thing.

My longest standing, biggest complaint with Microsoft since the mid '90s wasn't even remotely related to all the common rhetoric. It was how unportable their codebase was, including not even being remotely '64-bit clean.' That is now, finally, changing, and not just a 'checkbox' (i.e., lie) that it runs on a different, but yet still another, x86 platform. That alone will improve the APIs.

I mean, how can you have a single company with so many different standards and variance, than a loosely knit world of developers in a larger community? Porting, documenting, greater openness solves that.

Intel, on the other hand ... I think is honestly f'd. Especially with SoftBank in control of ARM. The ARM community has really squandered the last 5 years by not getting a solid set of commodity platforms out there with a full uEFI implementation. Because if that ever happens, there will be little reason to buy x86-64 for a server and, eventually, a workstation.

At least they finally realized the Atom bastard needed to die. Being under NDA in 2006, I told Intel it would fail ... spectacularly ... it would become like MIPS (who was barely a dozen employees by 2006). Atom was always slower, more power hungry and always playing 'catch up' to ARM ... especially once speculative, superscalar, out-of-order ARM designs appeared. And as most showed, you can even run an i-core series in a low-power, low-voltage unit with far more performance per watt.

And now that Microsoft is actually making .NET portable -- not just lip service and playing games (literally, the console is a freak'n PC underneath!) -- the need for any x86 is dying off. And that means Intel is dying off. They are completely regretting selling off the StrongARM to Marvell ... just like I told them they would almost a dozen years ago.

 

[Great2BAKnight2]

I wonder if the recent "secret chip" capable of monitoring computers without the user knowing will affect Intel. The story certainly makes me consider AMD for my next computer build.

The first story in this link has a good explanation of the chip and some follow on links: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-610-notes.pdf

 

[UCFWayne]

I wonder if the recent "secret chip" capable of monitoring computers without the user knowing will affect Intel. The story certainly makes me consider AMD for my next computer build.

The first story in this link has a good explanation of the chip and some follow on links: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-610-notes.pdf

cant remember if it was the cia or nsa that had hacked the official firmware for several hard drive makers. you could encrypt the drives and it wouldnt matter that data was compromised. hell you could even put new firmware on, and it still remained.

 

[UCFBS]

One word ... Clipper

(yes, it never came about ... but the attitude still remains, sadly)