Citing norms, hmm? Well I hope you're not irrational enough to deny that without a genuine gift you better just forget Julliard. With hard practice, an ungifted or musically impaired person might manage to eke out a four year music degree from a state college program, maybe in musicology. But not Julliard, please just don't be absurd.
The flip side of the coin is, without Microsoft's ham handed oppression taking root in the fertile soil of ignorance, the free software movement might never have been spurred on to rise and dominate the world. How many months to go before the total of all Linux smartphones alone exceeds the total of all Microsoft PCs?
Of course it was touch and go for a while. Microsoft did come really close to owning the entire internet, and in a parallel universe, they figured out how to make a compelling smartphone before Apple did and owned that market too. Microsoft everywhere, can you just imagine?
IIS is gaining popularity as Windows is replacing Unix. Linux is stagnant the last time I looked.
You're looking at the wrong graph, parked domains are easy for Microsoft to manipulate. Look at active servers, Linux is dominant and steadily increasing while IIS has already faded to 11% in spite of the usual array of dirty tying tricks.
BTW, what is really comical in the "windows is replacing Unix" talking point is, iOS is real dyed in the wool Unix, and Apple just finished delivering Microsoft the most righteous kick in the nads it ever got.
That's debatable. What is not debatable is that ignorance gave us the Microsoft dark ages and caused untold economic damage, which continues today. What might have at one time been ascribed to ignorance can today only be called wilful stupidity. I am entirely in favour of a tax on the stupid, and lets throw in a few Darwin awards while we're at it.
You're fighting an old fight. Microsoft successfully outflanked Linux on the desktop using an array of techniques, but mostly just the old standard illegal monopoly control of OEMs. While Microsoft was fixated on that, the rest of the world moved on. Apple slipped in and grabbed a major chunk of the laptop market. First Apple, then Linux took over the handset market. Linux took over the cloud.
The next act in this drama is pretty obvious. Handsets get bigger and become desktops. Except they're not desktops, they have built in microphones and speakers and cameras and even GPS hardware because it would cost more to engineer goodies like that out than just leave them in. And they don't have a big tangle of power cords, it's all bluetooth. And no fans to pollute the sound environment. And touch screens, for what that's worth, besides mouse and keyboard. I've got one of those sitting beside me right now, it's just a stock Android tablet sitting on a media dock. It's very close to displacing this converted windows 8 machine as my main workstation. I can see that happening in the next couple of years, all we need on the software side is slightly improved mouse and keyboard support and on the hardware side, interface to a bigger monitor. While waiting for that, this setup has already displaced my laptop completely for road trips where I'm willing to put up with the small screen, which actually turns into an advantage in terms of doing useful work on an airline dinner tray.
I should have said: in their fantasy world, because you're obviously no Microsoftie. It's true, price isn't the issue in this case, customer discomfort is. As far as I'm concerned, the more over the top BSA gets the more it hurts the stragglers who don't bother looking for the way out. Microsoft and those guys deserve each other as they fade into irrelevance together. As everybody knows, the whole Microsoft ecosystem is deflating. Dell is the poster child for that.
Most actually pay every license twice just to ensure they don't get publicly shamed by the BSA in an audit, that's how much they care about the price.
Right. In your fantasy world.
In the real world, the guy that writes those checks for double the license fees is well aware its a protection racket Microsoft runs on its long suffering captive customers. Lovely way to do business, that. Makes great and loyal friends, oh yeah.
See, this crap is why the likes of you need to slowly rot away spouting your nonsense in a dying business that hasn't got the cojones to break its Microsoft habit, or any other habit that will inevitably lead to its demise at the hands of more efficient competitors.
You probably think your Microsoft-based ERP system is really great whereas in fact it is an utter piece of crap that is doing your business more harm than good.
Wall street doesn't love Microsoft because its business model for the last dozen years ago is about squeezing increasing license fees out of locked in customers. Nobody is under any illusion about where that leads.
Knowing that, Microsoft has been desperately thrashing about trying to find some new market into which it can extend its monopoly. Arguably, the biggest single factor in forestalling Microsoft's boundless ambition was Mozilla, which ended Microsoft's dreams of becoming gatekeeper to the internet. Then Apple killed Microsoft's hopes in the phone market and Sony refused to concede the high end console market. Next sea change is, the corporate workplace moves to the cloud and Microsoft isn't invited to the party.
Last year's flurry of new product hype was just comical. Microsoft got the benefit of the doubt that time. They shot their wad, next manic outbreak of product announcements will get exactly zero cred.
he is singlehandedly doing what Linux never could, completely destroying MSFT and killing Windows
You apparently forgot that every internet company except Apple and Microsoft has based its business model on Linux servers. That is what is destroying Microsoft, while Linux's handset domination forestalls any escape to that market. Ballmer helps for sure, but it's really Linux servers that are cutting off Microsoft's air supply.
I'm looking forward to Microsoft's last stand as a fading console vendor.
This is what I just love, people who claim they are "stuck" when actually they just don't care. Similar example: "I'm fat because I can't stop eating". There is a special place in hell right here on earth, for those lacking the will to change.
It's fine with me because all those smug assholes who were too shortsighted to see this coming from twenty years ago should suffer for their stupidity. And in this day and age, whoever is stupid enough not to be moving forward with a Microsoft exit strategy deserves what is coming to them.
It's fine with me because all those smug assholes who were too shortsighted to see this coming from twenty years ago should suffer for their stupidity. And in this day and age, whoever is stupid enough not to be moving forward with a Microsoft exit strategy deserves what is coming to them.
You're talking about workarounds. No question about it: the missing flash slot is a deficiency. Rather rubs in your face the fact that Google actually admires and aspires to Apple's evil ways.
No, the entire point of this conversation is that talent is not something one develops, but something one starts with. The tin ear was simply introduced as an example of a talent deficit obviously severe enough to keep you out of Julliard. But not sufficiently obvious for you, apparently.
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80% of the clients I work for are all ms shops and the CIO brags how much they save by using one platform and ecosystem for everything.
These are precisely the assholes I like to see squirming as Microsoft turns up the heat.
Citing norms, hmm? Well I hope you're not irrational enough to deny that without a genuine gift you better just forget Julliard. With hard practice, an ungifted or musically impaired person might manage to eke out a four year music degree from a state college program, maybe in musicology. But not Julliard, please just don't be absurd.
The flip side of the coin is, without Microsoft's ham handed oppression taking root in the fertile soil of ignorance, the free software movement might never have been spurred on to rise and dominate the world. How many months to go before the total of all Linux smartphones alone exceeds the total of all Microsoft PCs?
Of course it was touch and go for a while. Microsoft did come really close to owning the entire internet, and in a parallel universe, they figured out how to make a compelling smartphone before Apple did and owned that market too. Microsoft everywhere, can you just imagine?
IIS is gaining popularity as Windows is replacing Unix. Linux is stagnant the last time I looked.
You're looking at the wrong graph, parked domains are easy for Microsoft to manipulate. Look at active servers, Linux is dominant and steadily increasing while IIS has already faded to 11% in spite of the usual array of dirty tying tricks.
BTW, what is really comical in the "windows is replacing Unix" talking point is, iOS is real dyed in the wool Unix, and Apple just finished delivering Microsoft the most righteous kick in the nads it ever got.
Ignorance is not evil.
That's debatable. What is not debatable is that ignorance gave us the Microsoft dark ages and caused untold economic damage, which continues today. What might have at one time been ascribed to ignorance can today only be called wilful stupidity. I am entirely in favour of a tax on the stupid, and lets throw in a few Darwin awards while we're at it.
Figured that out. You also didn't read ahead ;-)
You're fighting an old fight. Microsoft successfully outflanked Linux on the desktop using an array of techniques, but mostly just the old standard illegal monopoly control of OEMs. While Microsoft was fixated on that, the rest of the world moved on. Apple slipped in and grabbed a major chunk of the laptop market. First Apple, then Linux took over the handset market. Linux took over the cloud.
The next act in this drama is pretty obvious. Handsets get bigger and become desktops. Except they're not desktops, they have built in microphones and speakers and cameras and even GPS hardware because it would cost more to engineer goodies like that out than just leave them in. And they don't have a big tangle of power cords, it's all bluetooth. And no fans to pollute the sound environment. And touch screens, for what that's worth, besides mouse and keyboard. I've got one of those sitting beside me right now, it's just a stock Android tablet sitting on a media dock. It's very close to displacing this converted windows 8 machine as my main workstation. I can see that happening in the next couple of years, all we need on the software side is slightly improved mouse and keyboard support and on the hardware side, interface to a bigger monitor. While waiting for that, this setup has already displaced my laptop completely for road trips where I'm willing to put up with the small screen, which actually turns into an advantage in terms of doing useful work on an airline dinner tray.
I should have said: in their fantasy world, because you're obviously no Microsoftie. It's true, price isn't the issue in this case, customer discomfort is. As far as I'm concerned, the more over the top BSA gets the more it hurts the stragglers who don't bother looking for the way out. Microsoft and those guys deserve each other as they fade into irrelevance together. As everybody knows, the whole Microsoft ecosystem is deflating. Dell is the poster child for that.
Most actually pay every license twice just to ensure they don't get publicly shamed by the BSA in an audit, that's how much they care about the price.
Right. In your fantasy world.
In the real world, the guy that writes those checks for double the license fees is well aware its a protection racket Microsoft runs on its long suffering captive customers. Lovely way to do business, that. Makes great and loyal friends, oh yeah.
See, this crap is why the likes of you need to slowly rot away spouting your nonsense in a dying business that hasn't got the cojones to break its Microsoft habit, or any other habit that will inevitably lead to its demise at the hands of more efficient competitors.
You probably think your Microsoft-based ERP system is really great whereas in fact it is an utter piece of crap that is doing your business more harm than good.
Let me see... Linux is now out for 22 years... zero times 2 to the 22nd power is... still zero!
Wall street doesn't love Microsoft because its business model for the last dozen years ago is about squeezing increasing license fees out of locked in customers. Nobody is under any illusion about where that leads.
Knowing that, Microsoft has been desperately thrashing about trying to find some new market into which it can extend its monopoly. Arguably, the biggest single factor in forestalling Microsoft's boundless ambition was Mozilla, which ended Microsoft's dreams of becoming gatekeeper to the internet. Then Apple killed Microsoft's hopes in the phone market and Sony refused to concede the high end console market. Next sea change is, the corporate workplace moves to the cloud and Microsoft isn't invited to the party.
Last year's flurry of new product hype was just comical. Microsoft got the benefit of the doubt that time. They shot their wad, next manic outbreak of product announcements will get exactly zero cred.
he is singlehandedly doing what Linux never could, completely destroying MSFT and killing Windows
You apparently forgot that every internet company except Apple and Microsoft has based its business model on Linux servers. That is what is destroying Microsoft, while Linux's handset domination forestalls any escape to that market. Ballmer helps for sure, but it's really Linux servers that are cutting off Microsoft's air supply.
I'm looking forward to Microsoft's last stand as a fading console vendor.
This is what I just love, people who claim they are "stuck" when actually they just don't care. Similar example: "I'm fat because I can't stop eating". There is a special place in hell right here on earth, for those lacking the will to change.
It's fine with me because all those smug assholes who were too shortsighted to see this coming from twenty years ago should suffer for their stupidity. And in this day and age, whoever is stupid enough not to be moving forward with a Microsoft exit strategy deserves what is coming to them.
I see Microsoft astromods slithering around.
There, I said what Mr Obama could not bring himself to say.
Why is it that these guys actually need to be impeached to be sorry, and then they only feel sorry for themselves?
It's fine with me because all those smug assholes who were too shortsighted to see this coming from twenty years ago should suffer for their stupidity. And in this day and age, whoever is stupid enough not to be moving forward with a Microsoft exit strategy deserves what is coming to them.
Isn't that the truth. Hardest part is staying one step ahead of the paparazzi.
You're talking about workarounds. No question about it: the missing flash slot is a deficiency. Rather rubs in your face the fact that Google actually admires and aspires to Apple's evil ways.
Also no flash slot.
Tough customer. I suggest you just keep waiting until Google introduces its wearable solar powered subspace search appliance.
I was planning to pick one up until I read this.
In addition to incredible luck, Microsoft benefits from the incredible stupidity of its customers.
No, the entire point of this conversation is that talent is not something one develops, but something one starts with. The tin ear was simply introduced as an example of a talent deficit obviously severe enough to keep you out of Julliard. But not sufficiently obvious for you, apparently.