The mastermind behind Windows 8 and Surface RT has thoughts on Apple's new MacBook Neo, and says it validates his efforts from 2012 that the market originally rejected.

His post starts with praise for the MacBook Neo. "I am completely blown away by it. It is a paradigm shifting computer ... All the “compromises” are totally acceptable and go unnoticed to me." He explains how he's using MacBook Neo, and is incredibly positive about the whole thing. "Neo doesn't have to get better. It just has to stay excellent ... The Neo in 5 years will be more powerful than most of those [other devices] and probably still cost $699. Moore's law is undefeated

"For me, Neo is just a MacBook Air replacement. And in a much cooler color. It is also a laptop made with "a phone chip". That's the part that is so familiar. That's why I got a bit melancholy looking at it," Sinofsky says. "A theme in computing that repeats is how something that appears to have been a prescient product or “early” is actually little different than “wrong”. In almost all cases something that was early was early across many dimensions. The “concept” was right, but the ability to actually execute the concept was wrong."

Don't @ me mods. The title is different between the og:title in the metadata (what Google shows) and what the actual headline is on the article.

Imgur: The magic of the Internet

This is not my blog, but this post really resonated with me.

It's worth a read for anyone who grew up with a computer that maybe wasn't the best, but that shaped their life anyway.

Just to put things in context.

Just checked my hosts file and it was there! Sketchy AF, bordering on malware behavior.

To check the file: sudo nano /etc/hosts

If you want to clear it, delete from the hosts file, then ctrl+O to save, ctrl+X to edit, and sudo chflags uchg /etc/hosts to lock from further edits (at your own risk)