…executive support. That probably explains why the dream was kept alive for over a decade (Cairo started in 1991, WinFS was finally left out of Vista in 2006). Steven Sinofsky's interesting online book "Hardcore Software" has some chapters about Cairo and later WinFS: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/020-innova... "Cairo aimed to advance personal computing with dramatic changes in how we thought of…
…They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again. I agree with this. And what I think is so fascinating is how much they left on the table during this very same time. Steven Sinofsky's Hardcore Software substack is an amazing read[1]. And it really shows how much they got wrong as well as how much they got right. MS is firing on all cylinders. Both the OpenAI partnership and the GitHub acquisition are…
Dan Luu 很棒。如果他很对你的胃口，你可能也会喜欢 Steve Sinofsky（《Hardcore Software》）、Raymond Chen（《The Old New Thing》）；如果你对商业和金融那一块感兴趣，还可以看看 Patrick McKenzie 即 patio11（《Bits About Money》）。
Dan Luu is great. If he's up your alley, you may also like Steve Sinofsky ("Hardcore Software"), Raymond Chen ("The Old New Thing"), and if you're in to the business & finance side of things, Patrick McKenzie aka patio11 ("Bits About Money").
…revenue per customer. A customer won’t pay more than, say, $40 for a book. But they’ll more likely pay ~$120 by paying $10/month for a year. See also how Steven Sinofsky is publishing his book series Hardcore Software on Substack with the option to pay up to $300/year to get a final, printable PDF edition of the series once finished. I paid $100 to read this series for a year and one of my friends went for the $300…
…revenue per customer. A customer won’t pay more than, say, $40 for a book. But they’ll more likely pay ~$120 by paying $10/month for a year. See also how Steven Sinofsky is publishing his book series Hardcore Software on Substack with the option to pay up to $300/year to get a final, printable PDF edition of the series once finished. I paid $100 to read this series for a year and one of my friends went for the $300…
……让普通用户能够发现并使用他们以前从不知道或理解不了的功能。数据非常可观。（我记得是在 Steven Sinofsky 名为《Hardcore Software》的通讯里读到的。他当时负责 Office 业务。）按定义来说，重度用户更愿意投入精力去钻研软件。他们一开始会对改动感到恼火，但随后就会适应。而在持续交付的时代……
…enabled average users to discover and access functionality that they never knew about or understood before. The numbers were very significant. (I think I read about it in Steven Sinofsky’s newsletter called Hardcore Software. He was in charge of Office back then.) Power users by definition tend to invest in learning the software. They’ll be initially annoyed at changes, then adapt. And in the era of continuously delivered…
……高层的支持。这大概也能解释为什么这个梦想能维系了十多年（Cairo 始于 1991 年，而 WinFS 最终在 2006 年被移出 Vista）。Steven Sinofsky 那本很有意思的在线书《Hardcore Software》里有几个章节专门讲了 Cairo 以及后来的 WinFS：https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/020-innova... “Cairo 旨在通过大幅改变我们对……的认知来推进个人计算
…executive support. That probably explains why the dream was kept alive for over a decade (Cairo started in 1991, WinFS was finally left out of Vista in 2006). Steven Sinofsky's interesting online book "Hardcore Software" has some chapters about Cairo and later WinFS: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/020-innova... "Cairo aimed to advance personal computing with dramatic changes in how we thought of…
……在盖茨带领下他们曾极其出色，现在看来他们又重回巅峰了。我同意这点。而我觉得特别耐人寻味的是，就在同一个时期，他们白白错失了多少大好机会。Steven Sinofsky 在 Substack 上的《Hardcore Software》写得太棒了[1]。它真实地展现了他们做错了多少，又做对了多少。微软现在开足了马力。不论是和 OpenAI 的合作还是收购 GitHub 都……
…They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again. I agree with this. And what I think is so fascinating is how much they left on the table during this very same time. Steven Sinofsky's Hardcore Software substack is an amazing read[1]. And it really shows how much they got wrong as well as how much they got right. MS is firing on all cylinders. Both the OpenAI partnership and the GitHub acquisition are…
Dan Luu 很棒。如果他很对你的胃口，你可能也会喜欢 Steve Sinofsky（《Hardcore Software》）、Raymond Chen（《The Old New Thing》）；如果你对商业和金融那一块感兴趣，还可以看看 Patrick McKenzie 即 patio11（《Bits About Money》）。
Dan Luu is great. If he's up your alley, you may also like Steve Sinofsky ("Hardcore Software"), Raymond Chen ("The Old New Thing"), and if you're in to the business & finance side of things, Patrick McKenzie aka patio11 ("Bits About Money").
……每个客户带来的收入。一个客户不会为一本书掏超过比如 40 美元。但如果按每月 10 美元付一年，他们很可能愿意掏大约 120 美元。再看看 Steven Sinofsky 是如何在 Substack 上连载他的书《Hardcore Software》的：他提供了一个高达每年 300 美元的选项，完结后可以拿到最终可打印的 PDF 版本。我花 100 美元订阅了一年阅读权，而我的一个朋友选了 300 美元那个……
…revenue per customer. A customer won’t pay more than, say, $40 for a book. But they’ll more likely pay ~$120 by paying $10/month for a year. See also how Steven Sinofsky is publishing his book series Hardcore Software on Substack with the option to pay up to $300/year to get a final, printable PDF edition of the series once finished. I paid $100 to read this series for a year and one of my friends went for the $300…
……每个客户带来的收入。一个客户不会为一本书掏超过比如 40 美元。但如果按每月 10 美元付一年，他们很可能愿意掏大约 120 美元。再看看 Steven Sinofsky 是如何在 Substack 上连载他的书《Hardcore Software》的：他提供了一个高达每年 300 美元的选项，完结后可以拿到最终可打印的 PDF 版本。我花 100 美元订阅了一年阅读权，而我的一个朋友选了 300 美元那个……
…revenue per customer. A customer won’t pay more than, say, $40 for a book. But they’ll more likely pay ~$120 by paying $10/month for a year. See also how Steven Sinofsky is publishing his book series Hardcore Software on Substack with the option to pay up to $300/year to get a final, printable PDF edition of the series once finished. I paid $100 to read this series for a year and one of my friends went for the $300…
……让普通用户能够发现并使用他们以前从不知道或理解不了的功能。数据非常可观。（我记得是在 Steven Sinofsky 名为《Hardcore Software》的通讯里读到的。他当时负责 Office 业务。）按定义来说，重度用户更愿意投入精力去钻研软件。他们一开始会对改动感到恼火，但随后就会适应。而在持续交付的时代……
…enabled average users to discover and access functionality that they never knew about or understood before. The numbers were very significant. (I think I read about it in Steven Sinofsky’s newsletter called Hardcore Software. He was in charge of Office back then.) Power users by definition tend to invest in learning the software. They’ll be initially annoyed at changes, then adapt. And in the era of continuously delivered…