1) Profitable business, that makes DESKTOP WINDOWS and MS OFFICE.
2) Unprofitable business, which makes EVERYTHING else. Watch the game go up on these technologies, or watch them disappear from the market, after Office stops paying their bills.
He was installed, to keep the board and principal shareholders mollified at the prospect of a Gates departure that left the Corporation in the hands of clueless Sales executives.
"Here, Ray! Stand here, hold this, and grin."
If BillG had gone without a Ray Ozzie in place, everyone would have seen the previous 5 years of Ballmer-led "performance" - then headed for the metaphorical exit. Microsoft, instead of trading in the lackluster mid-twenties, would have been an instant 9-dollar-stock, eventually nosing up to 12 or 16...
Too many multi-millionaire, club members would have bathed on that one - Including Gates, Ballmer and Allen. So. What to do? Get yourself a scarecrow, like Ozzie, and stand him at the end of the field.
God! is there nothing about Microsoft that is not some sad, hollow sham?
Apple will wind down OS X over the decade - the PC era is over.
For users, this was heralded by the advent of the iPad, which will usher in 10,000 copies. For data centers, this came with large-scale, production virtualization.
Your beloved PC? Now a "content creator's" workstation. Everything from word processing to simple photo-editing goes on line - or into an "app".
For Microsoft: Snidely Whiplash. Nefarious, dastardly and grossly incompetent - Like Wile E. Coyote, without the ability to evoke a sympathetic response.
Nobody likes Oracle. Some actually like Microsoft, but the actual Oracle FanBoi count is weighted on the negative end of the scale, so mighty the vehemence of it's critics.
I believe that the LibreOffice team ought to couple their efforts with those of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - and in response to Oracle, brand the forking venture: EFF-off.
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Mad Dogs and Policemen.
"It's EVIL!"
-- Love, Kevin.
Slow ride.
Take it easy.
Jobs has major faults. He's not "a clueless sales executive".
In the limited realm of consumer technology, he falls between the description of "visionary" and "bellwether"
I'm not a fanboi. But Jobs knows how to lead his company, and organise technologists towards a goal that people really like and want to buy/use.
Baller rides on the existing business - pumping out crap that people have to use.
You are illustrating my point, not contesting it - right? :-)
Split in two:
1) Profitable business, that makes DESKTOP WINDOWS and MS OFFICE.
2) Unprofitable business, which makes EVERYTHING else. Watch the game go up on these technologies, or watch them disappear from the market, after Office stops paying their bills.
Those prognosticators did not make their statements at the end of a quarter in which 20 million such devices were sold - by just one vendor.
I eat a diet almost exclusively comprised of vegetarians.
Your sad devotion to that ancient religion...
Someone tought my buthsufferticket comment was flamebait? Man! Honkey got to buy his ass some sense o' humour!
Was official "Do Nothing".
He was installed, to keep the board and principal shareholders mollified at the prospect of a Gates departure that left the Corporation in the hands of clueless Sales executives.
"Here, Ray! Stand here, hold this, and grin."
If BillG had gone without a Ray Ozzie in place, everyone would have seen the previous 5 years of Ballmer-led "performance" - then headed for the metaphorical exit. Microsoft, instead of trading in the lackluster mid-twenties, would have been an instant 9-dollar-stock, eventually nosing up to 12 or 16...
Too many multi-millionaire, club members would have bathed on that one - Including Gates, Ballmer and Allen. So. What to do? Get yourself a scarecrow, like Ozzie, and stand him at the end of the field.
God! is there nothing about Microsoft that is not some sad, hollow sham?
"Step Down From His Role" Does that include no more wiping Ballmer spooge off his chin?
How's that for "imagery"?
Don't bitch at me. These are all other people's money makers, that MS slavishly copied, without any profitable revenue coming back to them.
When I mentioned Amazon, I was specifically referring to EC2 and S3.
Well, what's left that we can yet copy from iTunes, Sony, OS X, Java, VMware and Amazon?
Bailing out from this exploding gas bag, before she burns down to the bare frame.
Shit.
This whole thing is just to distract from the thing MythBusters won't investigate: Obama has no valid US birth certification!
Yes. We agree - because we are the technical/creative minority.
Right. That's my point. On Slashdot, we're the crew that held onto their Workstations, as cheap Intel PCs flooded in.
At breaking laws and acting without morality or conscience against the interests of the nation and humanity?
The Desktop OS is dead.
Apple will wind down OS X over the decade - the PC era is over.
For users, this was heralded by the advent of the iPad, which will usher in 10,000 copies. For data centers, this came with large-scale, production virtualization.
Your beloved PC? Now a "content creator's" workstation. Everything from word processing to simple photo-editing goes on line - or into an "app".
For Microsoft: Snidely Whiplash. Nefarious, dastardly and grossly incompetent - Like Wile E. Coyote, without the ability to evoke a sympathetic response.
HELP! CALL Glenn Beck!
He's from a Government agency! He wants to make everything the same!
I TOLD you that Obama was going to bring Socialism!
Well, we DO have both "Earth 2" and "Bizarro Earth", right?
I read through much of this thread, and am pretty well convinced that we must be living on the cube-shaped alternative...
Nobody likes Oracle. Some actually like Microsoft, but the actual Oracle FanBoi count is weighted on the negative end of the scale, so mighty the vehemence of it's critics.
I believe that the LibreOffice team ought to couple their efforts with those of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - and in response to Oracle, brand the forking venture: EFF-off .