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Ballmer Sends Wakeup Call to Staff
Puneet writes "An MSNBC article outlines details of how the world's biggest software company seems to be facing a technology gap. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, sent a memo across the company basically saying that with no immediate breakthroughs in technology coming, and with the Linux computer operating system and a batch of other open-source programs biting at its heels, Microsoft will have to do a better job of persuading customers it has something they need.
. Microsoft must "improve business consistency" so that customers are not hit with unexpected - and unwanted - changes. Also covered by Forbes but in lesser detail."
I've very likely been using Linux longer than you have.
Windows beats it in usability hands-down. Everybody knows this. Linux beats Windows as a server OS, and Windows beats Linux as a desktop OS. Why is that so hard for zealots to grasp? If Linux were the easier operating system, we wouldn't see so many newbies trying it, giving up, and going back to XP.
Next.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Why don't you fix the crap you've already shoved down everybodys throat before you try to create new and innovative garbage.
Their initial ideas are sound but with the business model that they've been following since 1995 (release faulty software at an inflated price, make more money on the 'upgrades')the innovations are lost among programming errors and security faults.
It's understandable why M$ is so scared of Open Source. For one thing it's free. Secondly, if you produce faulty software someone else is gonna fix it and improve upon it. No chance for those 'upgrades'. You won't even have time to charge $15 to cover the cost of putting it on a CD.
The GEEK shall inherit the earth...
"It's chamges are subtle but of great value to the user?"
Cute.
No, I mean the changes aren't extreme enough. It strikes me that Linux is playing a perpetual game of catch-up to Microsoft. It'd be nice of Linux, for a change, started to define the rules that MS would have to follow. I'm talking about the desktop here, not the servers.
Linux feels like a cheap imitation when migrating from Windows.