I suggest you go to research.microsoft.com they have great ideas. They were until recently just very cautious about them. Now that they are threatened you already see fast innovation.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Look at Windows 8. They now have the legacy desktop semi-isolated with an entirely different interface. They also have a VM solution standard on all desktops. How much of a change is it really to move to a "classic" environment where the Win 7 desktop doesn't load by default? Then say a decade later (they'll probably have to go slower than Apple) where it isn't included by default?.NET4 is mostly going to treat.NET3 the way Apple upgraded people to Cocoa. With their newer interfaces playing the role of Cocoa. And just as Apple slowly moved Carbon lower level....
The i960 was a printer processor with strong vector performance. Much like the gaming systems on XBoX, Playstation today. 486/i860 systems were really good though the use of GPUs more or less is a modern version of the same effect.
Some IT groups might hate it, but after all another group in IT bought and configured Dynamics so they aren't even universal in disliking the idea. Moreover, the whole point of BI is adhoc queries by end users. So I wouldn't even agree that's an abuse of Excel or BI.
For campus they don't care. For business tried that about 9 years ago. 3% of the cost of the product per month with older versions supported. Companies preferred to buy and wait, so it didn't work.
They don't believe their OS is designed for desktops. Microsoft has always been a champion of ubiquity. Early on they championed the OS that is useful for home / small business is useful for enterprise desktop. Then the OS that is useful for desktop is useful for server. They tried to move into embedded and for a while had huge marketshare in portables. They want a ubiquitous OS that runs from watches to smartphones to tablets to desktops to servers.
Because they can't use the same factories for Symbian, S40 and WP. It is not one capacity it is a variety of capacities. The process of making the S40s, Ashas, is wholly different than how a Lumia is made. One of the reasons they can make Ashas so cheap if they needed to (i.e. cut the price in half from where they are) is that they can use factories that are fully written down, rather than paying 3rd parties for assembly.
Nokias lack of margin from 2002 on did tremendous damage to the company.
. Unless, of course, SSDs suddenly drop in price... which they should have done by now, but hey... p-p-profit!
Where does all this constant paranoia on/. come from? SSDs have dropped in price year after year after year. Flash memory costs aren't 0. SSDs are tracking the costs of the parts in them, not shockingly.
I'd disagree. For people who do document composition there are tons of document composition systems. http://www.quantrix.com/ is certainly up market from Excel. There are higher end project management software... I'll agree there is no integrated suite that is up market, but many of those components cost more than the entire Office suite.
The claim was that people would buy legacy supporting systems. Your claim is that they would prefer legacy supporting systems on average. That's probably true.
On the other hand there has been a huge surge in mid priced laptop sales: $800+ for Windows machines. That surge is tiny compared to the whole market but it is where Microsoft wants to go.
The reason they are gambling is because they remember how they beat Unisys, IBM and DEC. They know if they lose consumer / small business to Android int he 2010s they lose enterprise in the 2020s. Besides, their existing business in consumer is no margin for anyone. It really isn't that much of a gamble.
DPI wasn't solved. Take a look at what Windows 7 looked like on the MacBook retina. As for better than 1080p and 200 DPI there aren't many outside of medical. Right now the MacBook Retina (220 / 227 PPI) and the Google ChromeBook Pixel (239 PPI) are the only mainstream laptops that high I know of. But it is a problem going forward, now that Apple is dropping the prices these screens will become mainstream if Windows can handle them.
What is so wrong with the model 'out of the 1990s' that needs changing?
Bitmaps so it only works on a very small range of DPIs and screen sizes No support for touch No support for voice No support for notification systems etc..
The B users are going to be f*cked up by this nonsense because they are trying to use everything and have all sorts of inter-dependencies. Reversions caused by too many versions too quickly will CLOBBER these "bread and butter" end users.
Maybe. They are going to have to keep their suite together. This is tricky and difficult. On the other hand they take advantage of new features. I agree the (a)'s won't be bothered as much but they aren't profitable right now.
Profitable "Enterprise" users are the ones that like to cling to old versions because the cost of an outtage is too high.
How does Microsoft make profit on the non upgraders?
I don't think he did. Lots of users are pulling BI information using an Excel interface. They may not think about how this data is getting into their spreadsheet but they certainly do notice it is there and take advantage of it.
Role based home pages in Outlook for Workflow Budgeting Dashboard in Excel Connection with mobile through company PBX in Communicator Word Controls (Word)
I understand you may have done that. But if there was a great desire for stability we would have seen a large spike when it became clear it was a "now or never" situation. There wouldn't have been a decline. The decline means that people were unconcerned enough not to change buying patterns.
Look at Microsoft's sales figures. They aren't selling legacy they are selling new features, things they didn't do 10 years ago. Microsoft is making a fortune taking data warehouse business from IBM and Oracle, 10 years ago SQL Server wasn't a player. Microsoft is moving their Office people up to Dynamics, Lync, SharePoint... 10 years ago Microsoft didn't even have an ERP.
And for the last year Microsoft has made it clear they are moving their interface out of the 1990s.
They aren't remotely feature complete. For example with spreadsheets compare: http://www.quantrix.com/ to Excel. That being said, you are kidding but the last decade has been a decade of rapid advance. Look at the tie ins with Dynamics that exist today, that sort of integrated BI/ERP was very rough around the edges even 5 years ago.
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I suggest you go to research.microsoft.com they have great ideas. They were until recently just very cautious about them. Now that they are threatened you already see fast innovation.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Look at Windows 8. They now have the legacy desktop semi-isolated with an entirely different interface. They also have a VM solution standard on all desktops. How much of a change is it really to move to a "classic" environment where the Win 7 desktop doesn't load by default? Then say a decade later (they'll probably have to go slower than Apple) where it isn't included by default? .NET4 is mostly going to treat .NET3 the way Apple upgraded people to Cocoa. With their newer interfaces playing the role of Cocoa. And just as Apple slowly moved Carbon lower level....
The i960 was a printer processor with strong vector performance. Much like the gaming systems on XBoX, Playstation today. 486/i860 systems were really good though the use of GPUs more or less is a modern version of the same effect.
I read that article when it came out. Obviously for those who just want to make list any spreadsheet will be fine.
Some IT groups might hate it, but after all another group in IT bought and configured Dynamics so they aren't even universal in disliking the idea. Moreover, the whole point of BI is adhoc queries by end users. So I wouldn't even agree that's an abuse of Excel or BI.
For campus they don't care. For business tried that about 9 years ago. 3% of the cost of the product per month with older versions supported. Companies preferred to buy and wait, so it didn't work.
They don't believe their OS is designed for desktops. Microsoft has always been a champion of ubiquity. Early on they championed the OS that is useful for home / small business is useful for enterprise desktop. Then the OS that is useful for desktop is useful for server. They tried to move into embedded and for a while had huge marketshare in portables. They want a ubiquitous OS that runs from watches to smartphones to tablets to desktops to servers.
Look at the surface. They intend to make touch part of the design of laptops. This is where they are going: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0
Employees like that but companies hate that.
I'm not following what you mean. Companies bought that. Obviously they like it.
Anyway I agree with you about MDX being introduced, they've been making it steadily better all decade.
As for discontinue, Microsoft is better than most. A huge advantage of open source is that you aren't dependent on a vendor.
Because they can't use the same factories for Symbian, S40 and WP. It is not one capacity it is a variety of capacities. The process of making the S40s, Ashas, is wholly different than how a Lumia is made. One of the reasons they can make Ashas so cheap if they needed to (i.e. cut the price in half from where they are) is that they can use factories that are fully written down, rather than paying 3rd parties for assembly.
Nokias lack of margin from 2002 on did tremendous damage to the company.
. Unless, of course, SSDs suddenly drop in price... which they should have done by now, but hey... p-p-profit!
Where does all this constant paranoia on /. come from? SSDs have dropped in price year after year after year. Flash memory costs aren't 0. SSDs are tracking the costs of the parts in them, not shockingly.
Bill, just for future reference. As of FF18 they now support retina resolutions. Chrome solved it about 2 mo after the Retina came out.
As for the scrolling... I agree. XP support is a very serious problem.
I have no idea where you are selecting your sample from. But no, that is not remotely the norm.
I'm not. x86 here is being used as a classification, to select particular types of devices. So coffee makers with a chip aren't included.
I'd disagree. For people who do document composition there are tons of document composition systems. http://www.quantrix.com/ is certainly up market from Excel. There are higher end project management software... I'll agree there is no integrated suite that is up market, but many of those components cost more than the entire Office suite.
The claim was that people would buy legacy supporting systems. Your claim is that they would prefer legacy supporting systems on average. That's probably true.
On the other hand there has been a huge surge in mid priced laptop sales: $800+ for Windows machines. That surge is tiny compared to the whole market but it is where Microsoft wants to go.
W8 is rather good on the right hardware. The mistake was pretending that touchscreen was optional.
The reason they are gambling is because they remember how they beat Unisys, IBM and DEC. They know if they lose consumer / small business to Android int he 2010s they lose enterprise in the 2020s. Besides, their existing business in consumer is no margin for anyone. It really isn't that much of a gamble.
DPI wasn't solved. Take a look at what Windows 7 looked like on the MacBook retina. As for better than 1080p and 200 DPI there aren't many outside of medical. Right now the MacBook Retina (220 / 227 PPI) and the Google ChromeBook Pixel (239 PPI) are the only mainstream laptops that high I know of. But it is a problem going forward, now that Apple is dropping the prices these screens will become mainstream if Windows can handle them.
What is so wrong with the model 'out of the 1990s' that needs changing?
Bitmaps so it only works on a very small range of DPIs and screen sizes
No support for touch
No support for voice
No support for notification systems
etc..
The B users are going to be f*cked up by this nonsense because they are trying to use everything and have all sorts of inter-dependencies. Reversions caused by too many versions too quickly will CLOBBER these "bread and butter" end users.
Maybe. They are going to have to keep their suite together. This is tricky and difficult. On the other hand they take advantage of new features. I agree the (a)'s won't be bothered as much but they aren't profitable right now.
Profitable "Enterprise" users are the ones that like to cling to old versions because the cost of an outtage is too high.
How does Microsoft make profit on the non upgraders?
I don't think he did. Lots of users are pulling BI information using an Excel interface. They may not think about how this data is getting into their spreadsheet but they certainly do notice it is there and take advantage of it.
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Role based home pages in Outlook for Workflow
Budgeting Dashboard in Excel
Connection with mobile through company PBX in Communicator
Word Controls (Word)
etc...
And most business don't pay $635 / seat.
I understand you may have done that. But if there was a great desire for stability we would have seen a large spike when it became clear it was a "now or never" situation. There wouldn't have been a decline. The decline means that people were unconcerned enough not to change buying patterns.
Look at Microsoft's sales figures. They aren't selling legacy they are selling new features, things they didn't do 10 years ago. Microsoft is making a fortune taking data warehouse business from IBM and Oracle, 10 years ago SQL Server wasn't a player. Microsoft is moving their Office people up to Dynamics, Lync, SharePoint... 10 years ago Microsoft didn't even have an ERP.
And for the last year Microsoft has made it clear they are moving their interface out of the 1990s.
They aren't remotely feature complete. For example with spreadsheets compare: http://www.quantrix.com/ to Excel. That being said, you are kidding but the last decade has been a decade of rapid advance. Look at the tie ins with Dynamics that exist today, that sort of integrated BI/ERP was very rough around the edges even 5 years ago.