[amaks]

Big mistake IMO. I can't imagine Satya "the enterprise guy" being CEO of the devices company (he's probably qualified to be CEO for the "services" part of Microsoft). I'm wondering if him and Elop would work as co-CEOs, but history shows that's not a good idea either.

[graving]

He was a lead on Bing and was working on Windows earlier. That's hardly enterprise.

[amaks]

Bing is what I referred to as "services". Also, AFAIK, he never worked in Windows, at least before Bing.

[hueving]

Nobody uses bing and Windows is largely enterprise. The entire value of Windows is enterprise management.

[nivla]

>Nobody uses bing

Not sure if you are trying to pull out the old faded joke or being truly serious. Bing has about 18%-27% market share depending on Organic vs Powered By. No I am not nitpicking a specific blog article, infact its the first summarized link on a Google search for "Bing market share". Bing also powers Siri, which is another major contributor.

>Windows is largely enterprise.

Its revenue may be largely enterprise but its still a monopoly in the consumer side. Infact I can blindly bet that majority of users here on HN is using Windows.

[1] http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2307115/Google-Fails-to...

[marshray]

> No I am not nitpicking a specific blog article

It would be 'nitpicking' to point out that you were not 'cherry picking' one from many possible articles to support your point.

[nivla]

You are absolutely right, that's the word I was looking for. My apologies. :)

[Mikeb85]

> Infact I can blindly bet that majority of users here on HN is using Windows.

I'd be willing to bet that HN has a lot more OSX, Linux and BSD users than the typical split...

[nivla]

Based off the majority of OS related post and comments, I would assume so too but there are a good number of lurkers and users who are non-vocal about their use of Windows. I couldn't find any HN Poll on this matter, but I hope someone who dealt with an HN effect would be kind enough to share their Analytics report on the OS traffic.

[Mikeb85]

Maybe it's like a sort of Stockholm syndrome...

Yesterday a buddy of mine (and partner in crime - the proverbial kind) tried to install a new language and dev environment on his machine. 4 hours and much frustration later, he still couldn't do much.

On Linux the same tasks would have taken 20 minutes (and did, as I had installed the same environment several months ago).

I couldn't imagine doing any development on Windows unless it's C++ or C# on VS... Everything is a hassle compared to Linux.

[cdh]

I like Bing, I've found it to be excellent. I've been using it for about a year now, and there's no way I'm going back to Google now.

[sirkneeland]

I use Bing. Voluntarily, mind you.