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Ray Ozzie's Departing Memo a Warning To Microsoft
itwbennett writes "In a parting memo to Microsoft, Ray Ozzie urges Microsoft to 'really, truly, seriously start thinking beyond the PC,' writes blogger Chris Nurney. Nurney suspects that 'Ozzie has been making these points internally for some time,' and that the memo 'could be his way of putting it in the public record.' Some of the memo's juicy bits: 'It's important that all of us do precisely what our competitors and customers will ultimately do: close our eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post-PC world might actually look like, if it were to ever truly occur. ... Today's PCs, phones & pads are just the very beginning; we'll see decades to come of incredible innovation from which will emerge all sorts of "connected companions" that we'll wear, we'll carry, we'll use on our desks & walls and the environment all around us.'"
And that's not saying much as Nintendo and Sony are just DRM douchebags looking to lock in the consumer and thwart any thinking outside of their respective, limited, lesser console devices. I've already purchased my last Apple, Nintendo and Sony products for my lifetime. I suggest you all do the same, or suffer the mediocre consequences.
crApple wanted to charge me $10 for a cut&paste upgrade, fuck that. Nontendo makes it impossible to move my paid for apps from one device to any other device of the same type, fuck them. pSony, like Nontendo and crApple, thwart the home brew scene, and that's the last I'll buy from them. Companies that play those games wont get paid by me. So, go run out and get Diablow 3 when it comes out and love your phone-home, DRMey goodness. You deserve it, paid for it (sort of) and can live with the restrictions without really owning anything. Blizzard owns you and your game experiences.
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
This would make sense if....
the app store was launched with the iphone. But it was in fact an afterthought.
An afterthought that completely recreated their entire product line and very organization, including the Mac.
Didn't say they were always thus, but they certainly are now.
Have you actually used a W7 phone?
Like most new MS UI designs (ribbon anyone?), it's superficially pretty in a banal kind of way, but doesn't actually improve anything. It's change for the sake of appearing different.
The home screen's fine for a few apps, but gets in the way if you add more, and again, the more you use the OS, the more inconsistencies you run into. There's almost no "Wow" moments, and many times when you don't get what you expect - Bing appearing when you wanted to search inside a document, for example.
I'd hesitate to say it was genuinely bad, but uninteresting, definitely. Using it made me even happier about choosing a Galaxy S (Android) for my own phone.
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