meant to get the best ideas to market faster and increase the company's push toward over-the-Internet software and services.
It'll never happen unless they get rid of half their staff, especially from the marketing and legal departments. Their staff is probably as bloated as their software. See insiders like MiniMsft for details.
I'll ignore the rest of your pointless comment but respond to this:
Can I run Visual Studio.NET and a full install of SQL Server 2005 on it with relatively large (20 gig or so) databases?
It runs Java (you know, that.NET clone) and any of its IDEs. I run a 5GB mySQL database on it (far faster than SQL Server for most tasks) also with no problems. I'm a software developer and use it for work anywhere I choose to be.
I was a software developer on Windows for 10 years and happily switched to Unix/Mac. You wacky Windows zealots will never get me to use that OS ever again.
My Titanium PowerBook is more powerful than your average desktop (except for the slow HD). It handles multimedia perfectly and has TV and audio outputs. I haven't gotten it to choke on a single game yet. So I can't imagine getting something that's only a little more powerful and weighs 20 lbs. These look like overbeefed laptops and I just don't see the point.
From a quarterly report filed with the SEC by Microsoft on January 31, 2003 (emphasis mine):
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations... Challenges to the Company's Business Model. Since its inception, the Company's business model has been based upon customers agreeing to pay a fee to license software developed and distributed by Microsoft. Under this commercial software development ("CSD") model, software developers bear the costs of converting original ideas into software products through investments in research and development, offsetting these costs with the revenues received from the distribution of their products. The Company believes that the CSD model has had substantial benefits for users of software, allowing them to rely on the expertise of the Company and other software developers that have powerful incentives to develop innovative software that is useful, reliable and compatible with other software and hardware. In recent years, there has been a growing challenge to the CSD model, often referred to as the Open Source movement... The popularization of the Open Source movement continues to pose a significant challenge to the Company's business model, including recent efforts by proponents of the Open Source model to convince governments worldwide to mandate the use of Open Source software in their purchase and deployment of software products. To the extent the Open Source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the Company's products may decline, the Company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline.
Three and a half years later and they're just starting to figure out what to do about it. They've known for a long time OSS would be significant competition. So far the only thing they've proven is they have no idea what to do about it.
That's exactly right. It's more than just a problem in their business model, though. As others have pointed out it's also a problem of mindset and perception. They've had a very long-standing mentality in their management that promotes disconnectedness. They need to change a lot more than their business model. Their management needs to fundamentally think differently about their software.
Why do you bring the Bush administration into this at all? Hell, what does any administration have to do with any of this?
Microsoft broke the law, whether you disagree with that law or not. The Bush administration, in its first weeks on the job, removed the experienced lawyers on the case and replaced them with young lawyers with no prior experience in monopoly litigation. The expert independant counsel was also mysteriously fired with no explanation. Bush sabotaged the anti-trust case by crippling the prosecution.
Placing the word "desktop" before "monopoly" is to qualify it. They don't have an overall OS monopoly or server monopoly, only desktop.
Being considered a monopoly isn't a problem to address. It's the state of the company within its industry. If they determine all of their business strategies based on this fact it's effectively their business model.
Incorrect. BSD is merely the license. The copyright holder (i.e. the "owner" of the code) remains the same. The license to use BSD code is not a transfer of ownership. Neither is the GPL.
You'll learn a lot more about a license if you actually read it.
They have a well marketed name that guarantees interest in any web sites they promote. The majority of people who browse the web use their browser. They could add proprietary components to their browser that interact with web pages in ways other sites couldn't easily achieve. They could also hard-code the home page in the next version of IE to go to one of their own sites, sending them millions of visitors.
The web's a different industry but they could leverage what they have to get a strong foot-hold in it.
Have you read any of Microsoft's SEC filings? All statements regarding revenue outlook are about attacks on their monopoly or ways they're using their desktop monopoly to gain in other markets. Everything in the way they run their business is about the desktop monoploy. I could understand someone saying "being a monopoly" is Microsoft's business model. I've been watching Microsoft for years.
There's a huge difference between regular government regulation and punishing abusers of a market. Even the smallest government will go after those who break the law.
This is so obviously wrong I was going to ignore it. But I just can't.
Have you looked at their financials? How are billions in revenue not sustainable? Even before getting money from floating stock Google was making a fortune. And Yahoo SURVIVED the dot-com fallout. Their future could easily turn for the worse, but for years they've proven profitable and sustainable.
I wish the future of cell phones was more like the past, just smaller. You know, a phone that's just a phone but fits in my pocket comfortably. Why do they make me feel like I'm asking for too much?
He never says to give up on Earth. You get health insurance because you know your health will be an issue one day. You carry a spare tire in your car because you know a tire will fail one day. The earth absolutely will end one day no matter how perfect you make life on it. As the moon is moving away eventually the earth's axis will wobble so much that extreme weather will make much of the earth barely habitable. As the sun dies our planet will collapse into it or fall out of orbit or whatever. Chances are every few hundred thousand years a huge asteroid will hit. All of these things are completely out of our control (they're natural, in fact). Ignore them at your species' peril.
But in the mean time let's certainly make this place better.
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meant to get the best ideas to market faster and increase the company's push toward over-the-Internet software and services.
It'll never happen unless they get rid of half their staff, especially from the marketing and legal departments. Their staff is probably as bloated as their software. See insiders like MiniMsft for details.
http://glish.com/css/7.asp
CSS Evolution
CSS is about intelligent design, not evolution!
Wouldn't distilled water be best? It doesn't conduct electricity as well as "dirtier" water and it's not flammable.
I'll ignore the rest of your pointless comment but respond to this:
.NET and a full install of SQL Server 2005 on it with relatively large (20 gig or so) databases?
.NET clone) and any of its IDEs. I run a 5GB mySQL database on it (far faster than SQL Server for most tasks) also with no problems. I'm a software developer and use it for work anywhere I choose to be.
Can I run Visual Studio
It runs Java (you know, that
I was a software developer on Windows for 10 years and happily switched to Unix/Mac. You wacky Windows zealots will never get me to use that OS ever again.
My Titanium PowerBook is more powerful than your average desktop (except for the slow HD). It handles multimedia perfectly and has TV and audio outputs. I haven't gotten it to choke on a single game yet. So I can't imagine getting something that's only a little more powerful and weighs 20 lbs. These look like overbeefed laptops and I just don't see the point.
Of course it's GPL
So that makes Evolution a cancer on Windows and Christians?
Three and a half years later and they're just starting to figure out what to do about it. They've known for a long time OSS would be significant competition. So far the only thing they've proven is they have no idea what to do about it.
That's exactly right. It's more than just a problem in their business model, though. As others have pointed out it's also a problem of mindset and perception. They've had a very long-standing mentality in their management that promotes disconnectedness. They need to change a lot more than their business model. Their management needs to fundamentally think differently about their software.
Why do you bring the Bush administration into this at all? Hell, what does any administration have to do with any of this?
Microsoft broke the law, whether you disagree with that law or not. The Bush administration, in its first weeks on the job, removed the experienced lawyers on the case and replaced them with young lawyers with no prior experience in monopoly litigation. The expert independant counsel was also mysteriously fired with no explanation. Bush sabotaged the anti-trust case by crippling the prosecution.
Placing the word "desktop" before "monopoly" is to qualify it. They don't have an overall OS monopoly or server monopoly, only desktop.
Being considered a monopoly isn't a problem to address. It's the state of the company within its industry. If they determine all of their business strategies based on this fact it's effectively their business model.
Incorrect. BSD is merely the license. The copyright holder (i.e. the "owner" of the code) remains the same. The license to use BSD code is not a transfer of ownership. Neither is the GPL.
You'll learn a lot more about a license if you actually read it.
Does anyone know how they calculate these market share values? AFAIK they don't all publish traffic statistics.
Mindshare + web browser
They have a well marketed name that guarantees interest in any web sites they promote. The majority of people who browse the web use their browser. They could add proprietary components to their browser that interact with web pages in ways other sites couldn't easily achieve. They could also hard-code the home page in the next version of IE to go to one of their own sites, sending them millions of visitors.
The web's a different industry but they could leverage what they have to get a strong foot-hold in it.
Have you read any of Microsoft's SEC filings? All statements regarding revenue outlook are about attacks on their monopoly or ways they're using their desktop monopoly to gain in other markets. Everything in the way they run their business is about the desktop monoploy. I could understand someone saying "being a monopoly" is Microsoft's business model. I've been watching Microsoft for years.
There's a huge difference between regular government regulation and punishing abusers of a market. Even the smallest government will go after those who break the law.
This is so obviously wrong I was going to ignore it. But I just can't.
Have you looked at their financials? How are billions in revenue not sustainable? Even before getting money from floating stock Google was making a fortune. And Yahoo SURVIVED the dot-com fallout. Their future could easily turn for the worse, but for years they've proven profitable and sustainable.
The current (pre-Vista) TCP/IP stack plus command line FTP and other old utilities are not "owned" by them. They're copyright BSD, IIRC.
If they were wildly successful in recent years geeks would complain.
When they're not successful media and economic pundits plus stock holders complain.
They'd rather anger the geeks than their investors.
What more would you want? (-1 for the next person to say "interns".)
:)
Ok... cigars.
From TFBlog: "the source code will be available under the GPL next month."
So I don't see the problem.
So far it's not telling us that. But apparently God is for sale on EBay.
I wish the future of cell phones was more like the past, just smaller. You know, a phone that's just a phone but fits in my pocket comfortably. Why do they make me feel like I'm asking for too much?
He never says to give up on Earth. You get health insurance because you know your health will be an issue one day. You carry a spare tire in your car because you know a tire will fail one day. The earth absolutely will end one day no matter how perfect you make life on it. As the moon is moving away eventually the earth's axis will wobble so much that extreme weather will make much of the earth barely habitable. As the sun dies our planet will collapse into it or fall out of orbit or whatever. Chances are every few hundred thousand years a huge asteroid will hit. All of these things are completely out of our control (they're natural, in fact). Ignore them at your species' peril.
But in the mean time let's certainly make this place better.
I really don't want to see Bill's.