https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/microsoft/Recent content in Microsoft onhttps://geekyschmidt.com/post/2017-11-05-a-year-of-microsoft-in-review/Sun, 05 Nov 2017 04:15:57 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2017-11-05-a-year-of-microsoft-in-review/<p><em>TL;DR Unix geek tries Windows 10 for a year. For the most part it works, but lots of growing pains. Going back to the land of GNU.</em></p> <h3 id="introduction">Introduction</h3> <p>A year ago, I started an attempt to give <a href="http://geekyschmidt.com/2016/10/30/microsoft-in-2016-a-review-from-a-unix-geek">Windows another try</a>. I jump around different platforms to stay current and cognisant of the industry shifts professionally. The need to get back to Windows happen to coincide with need for a new laptop.</p>https://geekyschmidt.com/2013/05/18/microsoft-lync-on-linux/Sat, 18 May 2013 04:02:43 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/2013/05/18/microsoft-lync-on-linux/<p>Microsoft Lync is prevalent through the corporate world. Honestly its a pretty decent product on a Windows machine. On Linux and Mac though it is really a half-baked product of varying working status. On Mac the official client burns through your battery due to requiring the Nvidia graphics card on my <a href="https://twitter.com/oneguynick/status/287115562293809152" target="_blank">Retina Pro??</a></p> <p>I am a big fan on Pidgin (or Adium on the Mac) and have been struggling to get Lync support working on Mac/Linux using this client. Today I was finally able to connect.</p>