Bullying is a huge problem in society. Facebook - where just about every kid has an account and uses it every day - only makes it worse. The insults don't go away when the school bell rings.
It seems to me that there are three parties involved here: the school, the parents and the kids. Each of them need to be accountable. If the bullying takes place on school grounds then the parents of the victim should notify the school - in writing. If the school knowingly allows it to continue then the teacher and/or principal should be held accountable. Up to and including getting fired.
The parents of the child that is doing the bullying is also responsible to curb the behavior. Your kid is harassing my kid and you damn well better do something about it and pronto. Don't know what to do? Tough. That's your problem, not mine. If it happens again you'll be speaking to the police and/or my attorney.
Finally, the bullying kid has to understand that this kind of behavior is unacceptable. Just because you are attending a public school does not give you the right to terrorize my kid - or anyone else's kid for that matter. If it continues then the parents of the victim should have the ability to push for the expulsion of the bully from the public school system.
Now these might seem like extreme measures but the vast majority of kids are in school to learn. Bullying is just another form of assault - plain and simple. No child should have to put up with that.
Government contracts...particularly Federal government contracts...are a mess. Just getting considered to bid on a govt contract is, for most companies, impossible to qualify for. The game is rigged and the rules are set by a few very large companies. Northrop Grumman, IBM, Ascenture, and Deloitte are a few of the better known ones.
The selection process is based on basically two factors - the vendor being able to meet all the requirements in the contract and putting in the lowest bid. One of those requirements, typically, is prior experience delivering services to the Federal government. This effectively shuts out new participants. The lowest bid is easily gamed by putting in a sub par system and then making money on change orders to fix what should have been done right in the first place.
Compounding this is a general ineptitude on the Government side in terms of project oversight.
There have been many instances of huge government IT projects that have failed. Just google "IT project failures US government" and you will see numerous examples. Part of the reason is what I outline above but there are others. Government projects tend to be very large in scope and large projects represent more risk. Politics plays a big role. Current IT systems are usually a hodge-podge of outdated, inefficient, understaffed, poorly documented pieces of software often numbering in the hundreds. It's just a massive undertaking.
So the cost overruns and poor performance of the Healthcare.gov system is no surprise to me. I'm hopeful that it improves but history suggests otherwise.
That would be fine if you live alone. Otherwise you are exposing your spouse and children to harm if they are home and you are not. If you want to let FB handle your home security that's your business. I prefer to handle it myself.
You check in and people automatically know that you're not home. Brilliant. On the other hand, wi-fi is not as useful to me as it once was. The 4G speeds I get seem to be just as fast, or faster, than any wi-fi connection. Plus, I've got at least some security with 4G. No thanks Facebook. Take your "free" wi-fi and stick it where the sun don't shine:-)
I work mainly on Enterprise software and there are lots of people doing contract work in that field. I'm an independent contractor. There are a few firms I deal with that help line me up with clients. LinkedIn is a good place to do some networking. After a while it sort of goes on autopilot. Much of the work I do is repeat business. A lot of it is word of mouth and reputation. You might be surprised to see how many firms would rather use a contractor than hire someone full time.
If this turns out to be just a political stunt by Democrats to intentionally take the servers down to amplify the "shutdown" then they will look bad. If it turns out that the servers were simply overloaded and not up to the task then that feeds right into the Republican claims that Obamacare will be a disaster. I mean, if you can't even get to the website how confident are you in their ability to provide medical care? Didn't anyone think that maybe testing the whole thing before rolling it out to millions of Americans might be a good idea? If it wasn't ready then delay the launch or at least give a little forewarning that it might be a bit slow on the first day. Idiots.
That's one of the reasons I moved into consulting. My relationship is with my clients, on a project to project basis. It keeps me out of the politics for the most part. If they like me then we will do business again. If not, I keep my mouth shut for a few months and move on when the project is done. No hard feelings. I realize that consulting is not for everyone but it's the approach that works best for me.
That's a very astute observation Ronin. What I see as the bottom rung, career wise, in IT is IT support. Next up is what I call "commodity programming". Programming in HTML, JavaScript or the like. These skills are widely available and often by cheap offshore resources. You can make a good living at programming but it's got to be in a niche area and it's got to be something creative that is not easily outsourced. Otherwise, the three options you mention above are probably your best bet.
I have managed groups of programmers from India and I have to say that over the years the quality of work has improved. What has not improved is communication. I still find it very challenging. I would prefer to work with programmers from the USA but, as you say, $10/hr is a pretty compelling argument. It gives you a lot of room for slippage.
One profession I would add to your list is Technical Architect. It means different things at different companies but generally this person is a liaison between the business people and the programmers. Someone that has a good technical background but also has excellent communication skills. Someone that has good writing skills and can manage other programmers. I find myself doing this more and more these days and less pure programming.
It might not be for everyone but it puts you in a position where offshore people simply cannot compete with you.
And the best revenge for that is to live within your means. Programming pays well. Stash away a few months salary so that if your boss is a dick you can quit and work somewhere that appreciates your talents and treats you like a human being.
I've implemented on premise solutions for ERP and CRM. While SAAS is the flavor of the month at the moment there are some real issues with it. Let's start with Workday. You cannot customize it in any way....outside of simple mods like changing field labels. You cannot create your own custom pages, records, fields, or code. Period.
In 15 years of implementing ERP systems I have never been to a client that didn't have a need to customize something to fit the way they do business. Not one...in 15 years. For a small or perhaps a medium size company this might be an acceptable compromise. For a big company - which is your typical ERP customer - no way. The truth of the matter is that there is no one size fits all solution when it comes to ERP. Pick just about any business process you like - hiring an employee, creating a voucher, enrolling a student - and I can almost guarantee that there will be variations from company to company. Not being able to customize the software is a serious drawback. Serious.
Now Salesforce, on the other hand, does allow you to customize the software. It's fairly easy to use and administer and the interface is pretty slick. For my money, if I'm looking at a SAAS solution I would take Salesforce over Workday in a heartbeat.
I did some IT work them at their Irving, TX headquarters a few years back. BSA is hyper sensitive to lawsuits. There have been numerous lawsuits against Scout "leaders" molesting children over the years. Their attorneys require them to keep files on everyone that has every worked there, in case they get sued. They have rooms full of files...boxes and boxes of files. So it's little wonder they are objecting to a hacker outfit using the Scouts name.
I was a boy scout when I was a kid. Loved it. I think it's a good organization but they need to modernize. But they are beholden to conservative groups that donate a lot of money. Ross Perot gives them millions. In fact, he donated the land that their headquarters sits on. So BSA continues to toe the conservative line...not saying that's wrong, just an observation.
Those uniforms need to go. I think a lot of kids would feel wimpy wearing them. When I see an adult wearing one it just looks a bit creepy. Then I immediately think of Higgins from Magnum PI and chuckle a bit:-)
No authentication system is perfect. On non-iThingies you have three choices: swipe to unlock, 4 digit PIN, or full encryption with a long password. Most people use option 1 or 2. Option 1 provides no security whatsoever. Option 2 provides a little security but it's very easy to crack a 4 digit password. Option 3 is much better but inconvenient. I tried it for a while and got tired of entering a long password every time I wanted to use the phone. So I got rid of it.
Basically any OS is hackable, given enough time and resources. The trick is to secure your system enough so that it becomes inconvenient for an intruder and they move on to an easier target. Sure, a fingerprint scan is not foolproof. I have no doubt that someone in the near future will post a hack on YouTube on how to bypass it. But it's still a heck of a lot safer than option 1 or 2 above, which is what the vast majority of people are using now. So I think that a fingerprint scan is a good compromise between good security and convenience.
For me the best security on my cellphone is to simply not put anything on it that could hurt me if it got lost or stolen. That means no mobile banking, no investment accounts, no passwords, no links to websites that have the username and password stored. If someone steals my phone and they get a copy of my music library and family vacation photos I can live with that. Remote wipe...poof, it's gone.
Finally someone has figured out how to build and sell a Windows 8 tablet. I think that $349 is a very attractive price point. Especially when you consider that it comes with Office, a physical keyboard, and an SD card slot for storage expansion. Ok, so the screen isn't going to set the world on fire but it's very usable. I could see something like this as a good note taking device for school/meetings. Maybe some light internet browsing or Netflix viewing.
The big mistake Microsoft has made is trying to compete head to head with Apple on price. The iPad is seen as a premium product. And the Surface? Well, it's a Microsoft product. If they would drop the price, like Asus has done, they could see a ton of them. Windows 8 on a tablet is actually not a bad OS.
It's an American thing. It's the same reason that people still drive around in those giant SUV's. And put giant refrigerators in their kitchens. And put giant TV's in their living rooms. Seeing a pattern here? For some strange reason, in America bigger is always seen as better. It's the land of excess.
I think what you're missing here is failing to look beyond the "specs". I've had both an iPhone and an Android phone and my experience (maybe not yours, but mine) has been that the iPhone is a better phone. Why? The android phone (my current phone, by the way) seems to gimp out on me more than I'd like. By that I mean that screens freeze up, it crashes etc. Sometimes I'll wake up to find the battery has gone dead overnight. Other times, I wake up and the battery is fine. Using GPS or WiFi causes a SERIOUS battery drain.
When I switched from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy I was wooed by the better specs...more megapixels in the camera, expandable SD card storage, etc. But what I found out later was that the iPhone takes a better picture. Why? Because it's got a better lens and it represents flesh tones better. The pictures seem to have better contrast and the colors seem more lifelike to me. The idea of having an SD card was appealing at first but I found myself just collecting more junk. iOS, to me, offers a better user experience than android. It seems more polished...more fluid. I have owned two iPhones and neither of them ever crashed on me. I can't say that about my 2 year old android phone.
So I'm just left with the impression that the iPhone excels in areas that are difficult to measure using raw numbers. The specs may seem lower at first glance, and they are, but overall I'm left with a better experience on the iPhone than the Galaxy. My next phone will be an iPhone. Your mileage will almost certainly vary:-)
"I call BS" - Clearly you haven't worked in Higher Ed. In Higher Ed executives get where they are because of their academic credentials, not their leadership capabilities. In HE, security risks are only taken seriously if failing to comply affects the amount of government money coming in.
These small additions, although welcome additions, will do nothing to increase MS's tablet market share. How about throwing in the keyboard for free? How about some steeper price cuts? How about some free credits from the MS store?
Look - I applaud MS for trying to make a mark in the tablet space but they are fighting a really uphill battle. If they expect to have any sustained success with these things they are going to have to do something really aggressive. As it stands now, I can't think of a single compelling reason to buy a Surface over an iPad or one of the (better) Android tablets. Your move Mr. Ballmer.
Remember when Jobs was forced out from Apple and he founded NeXT? NeXT was later acquired by Apple for it's OS, which later became OSX as we know it. Elop is now back at Microsoft in a key position (mobile). My bet is that he becomes the next CEO.
Yup - point well taken. I've tried Open Office on a few occasions and I like it but there always seems to be some little thing or other that won't work correctly. I also keep a Windows VM handy for those times where I just have to live in Windows...work related stuff. And there are other little things like Sharepoint only working properly in IE...MS Project files...Visio documents, etc.
"Do you honestly think that windows 8 is going to cause a mass migration to osx or linux?" - Probably not but clearly a lot of people have switched to OSX. The bigger problem for MS is android. The audience on/. is technical but most people are not technical. They want something simple and easy to use. Android delivers on that. Plus, there is a ton of free software. Not spreadsheets and word processors but things that everyday people want to use.
The MS lock in was a lot more true 5 years ago than it is today. After the Vista debacle I gave up and got a Mac. I have MS Office for Mac and it works just fine for work stuff. I'll never buy another Windows PC. Why? Because I got tired of the way MS treated their customers. Got tired of license restrictions. I found better ways to get things done.
the problem for Microsoft is that many people are no longer willing to pay for operating system software. All of the mobile OS's are free. You can download Linux for free. If you buy a Mac the OS is included...and you get a disk with a real copy of the OS and no crapware included.
Personally, I have always felt that if you buy a computer the operating system should be included at no extra charge. What good is it without an OS? It's like buying a car without an engine.
is how I would summarize his tenure as CEO at Microsoft. When he was given the rains by Gates, he inherited a company with a $50 stock price. It was stalled out at $30 for the longest time. Only now is it approaching $35, largely due to the glee associated with his departure. He has missed every significant innovation in the past 10 years. Windows 8 is tanking. Windows Phone is stuck in the single digit market share. Despite slashing prices on the MS tablets they continue to languish in the marketplace. Were it not for the entrenched monopolies of Windows and Office, MS would be losing money hand over fist. They have done some good things in the server market but Linux has made significant inroads. Maybe he can find a position at HP...seems to suit his skill set perfectly.
I hate to say it but Ubuntu has missed the mobile boat. It would have been nice to have an open source alternate to Android and iOS. I use Android but I've got to say, it gives me the creeps the more I read about Google and how they are mining our data with seemingly no regard for their customers.
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Bullying is a huge problem in society. Facebook - where just about every kid has an account and uses it every day - only makes it worse. The insults don't go away when the school bell rings.
It seems to me that there are three parties involved here: the school, the parents and the kids. Each of them need to be accountable. If the bullying takes place on school grounds then the parents of the victim should notify the school - in writing. If the school knowingly allows it to continue then the teacher and/or principal should be held accountable. Up to and including getting fired.
The parents of the child that is doing the bullying is also responsible to curb the behavior. Your kid is harassing my kid and you damn well better do something about it and pronto. Don't know what to do? Tough. That's your problem, not mine. If it happens again you'll be speaking to the police and/or my attorney.
Finally, the bullying kid has to understand that this kind of behavior is unacceptable. Just because you are attending a public school does not give you the right to terrorize my kid - or anyone else's kid for that matter. If it continues then the parents of the victim should have the ability to push for the expulsion of the bully from the public school system.
Now these might seem like extreme measures but the vast majority of kids are in school to learn. Bullying is just another form of assault - plain and simple. No child should have to put up with that.
Government contracts...particularly Federal government contracts...are a mess. Just getting considered to bid on a govt contract is, for most companies, impossible to qualify for. The game is rigged and the rules are set by a few very large companies. Northrop Grumman, IBM, Ascenture, and Deloitte are a few of the better known ones.
The selection process is based on basically two factors - the vendor being able to meet all the requirements in the contract and putting in the lowest bid. One of those requirements, typically, is prior experience delivering services to the Federal government. This effectively shuts out new participants. The lowest bid is easily gamed by putting in a sub par system and then making money on change orders to fix what should have been done right in the first place.
Compounding this is a general ineptitude on the Government side in terms of project oversight.
There have been many instances of huge government IT projects that have failed. Just google "IT project failures US government" and you will see numerous examples. Part of the reason is what I outline above but there are others. Government projects tend to be very large in scope and large projects represent more risk. Politics plays a big role. Current IT systems are usually a hodge-podge of outdated, inefficient, understaffed, poorly documented pieces of software often numbering in the hundreds. It's just a massive undertaking.
So the cost overruns and poor performance of the Healthcare.gov system is no surprise to me. I'm hopeful that it improves but history suggests otherwise.
That would be fine if you live alone. Otherwise you are exposing your spouse and children to harm if they are home and you are not. If you want to let FB handle your home security that's your business. I prefer to handle it myself.
You check in and people automatically know that you're not home. Brilliant. On the other hand, wi-fi is not as useful to me as it once was. The 4G speeds I get seem to be just as fast, or faster, than any wi-fi connection. Plus, I've got at least some security with 4G. No thanks Facebook. Take your "free" wi-fi and stick it where the sun don't shine :-)
I work mainly on Enterprise software and there are lots of people doing contract work in that field. I'm an independent contractor. There are a few firms I deal with that help line me up with clients. LinkedIn is a good place to do some networking. After a while it sort of goes on autopilot. Much of the work I do is repeat business. A lot of it is word of mouth and reputation. You might be surprised to see how many firms would rather use a contractor than hire someone full time.
If this turns out to be just a political stunt by Democrats to intentionally take the servers down to amplify the "shutdown" then they will look bad. If it turns out that the servers were simply overloaded and not up to the task then that feeds right into the Republican claims that Obamacare will be a disaster. I mean, if you can't even get to the website how confident are you in their ability to provide medical care? Didn't anyone think that maybe testing the whole thing before rolling it out to millions of Americans might be a good idea? If it wasn't ready then delay the launch or at least give a little forewarning that it might be a bit slow on the first day. Idiots.
That's one of the reasons I moved into consulting. My relationship is with my clients, on a project to project basis. It keeps me out of the politics for the most part. If they like me then we will do business again. If not, I keep my mouth shut for a few months and move on when the project is done. No hard feelings. I realize that consulting is not for everyone but it's the approach that works best for me.
That's a very astute observation Ronin. What I see as the bottom rung, career wise, in IT is IT support. Next up is what I call "commodity programming". Programming in HTML, JavaScript or the like. These skills are widely available and often by cheap offshore resources. You can make a good living at programming but it's got to be in a niche area and it's got to be something creative that is not easily outsourced. Otherwise, the three options you mention above are probably your best bet.
I have managed groups of programmers from India and I have to say that over the years the quality of work has improved. What has not improved is communication. I still find it very challenging. I would prefer to work with programmers from the USA but, as you say, $10/hr is a pretty compelling argument. It gives you a lot of room for slippage.
One profession I would add to your list is Technical Architect. It means different things at different companies but generally this person is a liaison between the business people and the programmers. Someone that has a good technical background but also has excellent communication skills. Someone that has good writing skills and can manage other programmers. I find myself doing this more and more these days and less pure programming.
It might not be for everyone but it puts you in a position where offshore people simply cannot compete with you.
And the best revenge for that is to live within your means. Programming pays well. Stash away a few months salary so that if your boss is a dick you can quit and work somewhere that appreciates your talents and treats you like a human being.
That brings the grand total of Surface tablets sold to 11,001.
I've implemented on premise solutions for ERP and CRM. While SAAS is the flavor of the month at the moment there are some real issues with it. Let's start with Workday. You cannot customize it in any way....outside of simple mods like changing field labels. You cannot create your own custom pages, records, fields, or code. Period.
In 15 years of implementing ERP systems I have never been to a client that didn't have a need to customize something to fit the way they do business. Not one...in 15 years. For a small or perhaps a medium size company this might be an acceptable compromise. For a big company - which is your typical ERP customer - no way. The truth of the matter is that there is no one size fits all solution when it comes to ERP. Pick just about any business process you like - hiring an employee, creating a voucher, enrolling a student - and I can almost guarantee that there will be variations from company to company. Not being able to customize the software is a serious drawback. Serious.
Now Salesforce, on the other hand, does allow you to customize the software. It's fairly easy to use and administer and the interface is pretty slick. For my money, if I'm looking at a SAAS solution I would take Salesforce over Workday in a heartbeat.
I did some IT work them at their Irving, TX headquarters a few years back. BSA is hyper sensitive to lawsuits. There have been numerous lawsuits against Scout "leaders" molesting children over the years. Their attorneys require them to keep files on everyone that has every worked there, in case they get sued. They have rooms full of files...boxes and boxes of files. So it's little wonder they are objecting to a hacker outfit using the Scouts name.
I was a boy scout when I was a kid. Loved it. I think it's a good organization but they need to modernize. But they are beholden to conservative groups that donate a lot of money. Ross Perot gives them millions. In fact, he donated the land that their headquarters sits on. So BSA continues to toe the conservative line...not saying that's wrong, just an observation.
Those uniforms need to go. I think a lot of kids would feel wimpy wearing them. When I see an adult wearing one it just looks a bit creepy. Then I immediately think of Higgins from Magnum PI and chuckle a bit :-)
No authentication system is perfect. On non-iThingies you have three choices: swipe to unlock, 4 digit PIN, or full encryption with a long password. Most people use option 1 or 2. Option 1 provides no security whatsoever. Option 2 provides a little security but it's very easy to crack a 4 digit password. Option 3 is much better but inconvenient. I tried it for a while and got tired of entering a long password every time I wanted to use the phone. So I got rid of it.
Basically any OS is hackable, given enough time and resources. The trick is to secure your system enough so that it becomes inconvenient for an intruder and they move on to an easier target. Sure, a fingerprint scan is not foolproof. I have no doubt that someone in the near future will post a hack on YouTube on how to bypass it. But it's still a heck of a lot safer than option 1 or 2 above, which is what the vast majority of people are using now. So I think that a fingerprint scan is a good compromise between good security and convenience.
For me the best security on my cellphone is to simply not put anything on it that could hurt me if it got lost or stolen. That means no mobile banking, no investment accounts, no passwords, no links to websites that have the username and password stored. If someone steals my phone and they get a copy of my music library and family vacation photos I can live with that. Remote wipe...poof, it's gone.
Maybe someone will figure out how to boot from the SD card, like you can do on a Nook.
Finally someone has figured out how to build and sell a Windows 8 tablet. I think that $349 is a very attractive price point. Especially when you consider that it comes with Office, a physical keyboard, and an SD card slot for storage expansion. Ok, so the screen isn't going to set the world on fire but it's very usable. I could see something like this as a good note taking device for school/meetings. Maybe some light internet browsing or Netflix viewing.
The big mistake Microsoft has made is trying to compete head to head with Apple on price. The iPad is seen as a premium product. And the Surface? Well, it's a Microsoft product. If they would drop the price, like Asus has done, they could see a ton of them. Windows 8 on a tablet is actually not a bad OS.
It's an American thing. It's the same reason that people still drive around in those giant SUV's. And put giant refrigerators in their kitchens. And put giant TV's in their living rooms. Seeing a pattern here? For some strange reason, in America bigger is always seen as better. It's the land of excess.
I think what you're missing here is failing to look beyond the "specs". I've had both an iPhone and an Android phone and my experience (maybe not yours, but mine) has been that the iPhone is a better phone. Why? The android phone (my current phone, by the way) seems to gimp out on me more than I'd like. By that I mean that screens freeze up, it crashes etc. Sometimes I'll wake up to find the battery has gone dead overnight. Other times, I wake up and the battery is fine. Using GPS or WiFi causes a SERIOUS battery drain.
When I switched from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy I was wooed by the better specs...more megapixels in the camera, expandable SD card storage, etc. But what I found out later was that the iPhone takes a better picture. Why? Because it's got a better lens and it represents flesh tones better. The pictures seem to have better contrast and the colors seem more lifelike to me. The idea of having an SD card was appealing at first but I found myself just collecting more junk. iOS, to me, offers a better user experience than android. It seems more polished...more fluid. I have owned two iPhones and neither of them ever crashed on me. I can't say that about my 2 year old android phone.
So I'm just left with the impression that the iPhone excels in areas that are difficult to measure using raw numbers. The specs may seem lower at first glance, and they are, but overall I'm left with a better experience on the iPhone than the Galaxy. My next phone will be an iPhone. Your mileage will almost certainly vary :-)
"I call BS" - Clearly you haven't worked in Higher Ed. In Higher Ed executives get where they are because of their academic credentials, not their leadership capabilities. In HE, security risks are only taken seriously if failing to comply affects the amount of government money coming in.
These small additions, although welcome additions, will do nothing to increase MS's tablet market share. How about throwing in the keyboard for free? How about some steeper price cuts? How about some free credits from the MS store?
Look - I applaud MS for trying to make a mark in the tablet space but they are fighting a really uphill battle. If they expect to have any sustained success with these things they are going to have to do something really aggressive. As it stands now, I can't think of a single compelling reason to buy a Surface over an iPad or one of the (better) Android tablets. Your move Mr. Ballmer.
Remember when Jobs was forced out from Apple and he founded NeXT? NeXT was later acquired by Apple for it's OS, which later became OSX as we know it. Elop is now back at Microsoft in a key position (mobile). My bet is that he becomes the next CEO.
Yup - point well taken. I've tried Open Office on a few occasions and I like it but there always seems to be some little thing or other that won't work correctly. I also keep a Windows VM handy for those times where I just have to live in Windows...work related stuff. And there are other little things like Sharepoint only working properly in IE...MS Project files...Visio documents, etc.
"Do you honestly think that windows 8 is going to cause a mass migration to osx or linux?" - Probably not but clearly a lot of people have switched to OSX. The bigger problem for MS is android. The audience on /. is technical but most people are not technical. They want something simple and easy to use. Android delivers on that. Plus, there is a ton of free software. Not spreadsheets and word processors but things that everyday people want to use.
The MS lock in was a lot more true 5 years ago than it is today. After the Vista debacle I gave up and got a Mac. I have MS Office for Mac and it works just fine for work stuff. I'll never buy another Windows PC. Why? Because I got tired of the way MS treated their customers. Got tired of license restrictions. I found better ways to get things done.
the problem for Microsoft is that many people are no longer willing to pay for operating system software. All of the mobile OS's are free. You can download Linux for free. If you buy a Mac the OS is included...and you get a disk with a real copy of the OS and no crapware included.
Personally, I have always felt that if you buy a computer the operating system should be included at no extra charge. What good is it without an OS? It's like buying a car without an engine.
is how I would summarize his tenure as CEO at Microsoft. When he was given the rains by Gates, he inherited a company with a $50 stock price. It was stalled out at $30 for the longest time. Only now is it approaching $35, largely due to the glee associated with his departure. He has missed every significant innovation in the past 10 years. Windows 8 is tanking. Windows Phone is stuck in the single digit market share. Despite slashing prices on the MS tablets they continue to languish in the marketplace. Were it not for the entrenched monopolies of Windows and Office, MS would be losing money hand over fist. They have done some good things in the server market but Linux has made significant inroads. Maybe he can find a position at HP...seems to suit his skill set perfectly.
I hate to say it but Ubuntu has missed the mobile boat. It would have been nice to have an open source alternate to Android and iOS. I use Android but I've got to say, it gives me the creeps the more I read about Google and how they are mining our data with seemingly no regard for their customers.