News Windows and Surface Boss Panos Panay is Leaving Microsoft

[Admin]

Panos Panay, the longtime leader of Microsoft's Surface hardware and the more recent chief of the Windows operating system announced that he is leaving the company.

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[Elusive Ruse]

Can we now get to buy Windows as a product without us being the commodity?

 

[GenericUser]

Can we now get to buy Windows as a product without us being the commodity?

I wish but I doubt it. Not commodifying your "customers" is just leaving money on the table as far as business sense goes. If anything I expect to see only more of it from businesses in general as time goes on.

 

[USAFRet]

Can we now get to buy Windows as a product without us being the commodity?

"Now"?

We never could. It has always been licensed software.

 

[ekio]

I hope the new leadership will finally bother modernizing the rest of the system UI/UX.
I am so over dealing with hundreds of system windows from XP era that are outdated, not resizable, not fitting the latest theme etc…

 

[Giroro]

"Now"?

We never could. It has always been licensed software.

Licensed software is fine.
Constant usage tracking, online monitoring, and ad-monetization of people's personal computers is the problem. Microsoft acting like a purchase of a software license entitles them to full ownership of a customer's hardware and data, is the problem.

 

[Giroro]

Microsoft doesn't assign their best and brightest to work on Windows, so this guy has probably been on the way out for at least a couple years.

 

[Psiboy69]

Panos Panay, the longtime leader of Microsoft's Surface hardware and the more recent chief of the Windows operating system announced that he is leaving the company.

Windows and Surface Boss Panos Panay is Leaving Microsoft : Read more

Good, Maybe the next version of windows won't be as crap as 11 and return to the focus on productivity instead of pretty trash?

 

[tamalero]

Good, Maybe the next version of windows won't be as crap as 11 and return to the focus on productivity instead of pretty trash?

if the tick tock of experience with Windows continue.. Windows 12 will be a winner.
Microsoft always f..s some version every now and then by trying too hard to be something Windows never is.
In this case.. "yet another apple clone" with Windows 11.

 

[Sippincider]

Good, Maybe the next version of windows won't be as crap as 11 and return to the focus on productivity instead of pretty trash?

With a marketing officer in charge of it??

Expect a whole new era of decision-by-PowerPoint to drive Windows (we can't wait for their next assault on the Start menu). To their credit we'll likely see some drop-dead beautiful desktops. But Windows 3 barnacles will always be just a couple clicks away.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

So the person in charge of Surface, arguably the worst Windows machine you can get due to the high price vs the competition, no dGPU, poor battery life, and very incremental changes per year (resulting in generally poor reviews fom TH/TomsGuide and other reviewers), is going to take over the Amazon Fire division, which produces the worst tablets (high price for bad specs, no Google services or store) and the worst streaming products with bare minimum memory and storage.

Well, I can see the Surface line maybe finally getting better, but I don't see Amazon devices, especially the Fire line, getting a badly needed jolt of decency, sadly.

 

[Darkbreeze]

I'm not sure what you are basing that opinion on, since the VAST majority of people I know, both on this forum and elsewhere, almost unilaterally recommend Fire tablets when somebody wants an inexpensive yet decent quality product, but I very much disagree with you on that count at least.

And I've had a couple of Fire tablets, and my oldest one is my 10" Fire tablet that I've had for like six years now, and it has never had a SINGLE issue of any kind, and I have used it often throughout EVERY day for all of those six years. And I know a number of people here and elsewhere that would absolutely back that up from their own experiences with them as well. Sure, they aren't the most capable product out there, but they also don't take a crap after three months like the majority of the cheap Chinese branded models do either.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm not sure what you are basing that opinion on, since the VAST majority of people I know, both on this forum and elsewhere, almost unilaterally recommend Fire tablets when somebody wants an inexpensive yet decent quality product, but I very much disagree with you on that count at least.

And I've had a couple of Fire tablets, and my oldest one is my 10" Fire tablet that I've had for like six years now, and it has never had a SINGLE issue of any kind, and I have used it often throughout EVERY day for all of those six years. And I know a number of people here and elsewhere that would absolutely back that up from their own experiences with them as well. Sure, they aren't the most capable product out there, but they also don't take a crap after three months like the majority of the cheap Chinese branded models do either.

I have both a Fire tablet and a Surface Go 3 laptop.
Using the Surface as we speak

The reports of short battery life with the Surface are ... all I can say is, Wrong.

On battery, on WiFi, playing videos....840 minutes.
People have called me a liar for posting that, but it is what it is.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Exactly. I can only offer the sum of my own experiences, and those of people I've interacted with, but those all say that those beliefs are simply false.

 

[palladin9479]

This explains why the Windows UI has been going to crap since 8, the dudes doing the mobile touch interface was in charge of it. Now we know why the Desktop GUI felt so bad, as though it was designed to be used on a tablet...