Then, compare that mountain of evidence against what Google has done so far. In comparison with most online business Google comes out very clean. Compared to Microsoft you have to compare to something like Monsanto before you even begin to come into the same ballpark as Microsoft.
This article is a sham and probably paid for by MS.
Google Chrome has always asked me to choose a search engine for as long as i can remember. Maybe they should include more search engines, but it does not default to Google Search.
Judging from the high return rate of WP7 phones and their abysmal sales, im not at all alone in thinking it sucks. Seems impossible to sell them even at a loss like Nokia is doing right now.
You are a fool if you think UI experts have anything to say about how Windows is designed. Metro was stolen off of the Sony Ericsson X1 that was essentially Metro ontop of Windows Mobile 6.5. It is in no way, shape or form created by UI designers. And if you look at Windows 8 its utterly apparent that no UI designer has had any input whatsoever there.
Metro is a mess because its nothing but widgets called "Tiles" and hyped as something groundbreaking and special. It sucked back when Sony Ericsson did it on the SE X1 mobile phone, and it sucks just as much now that Microsoft "borrowed" it.
I could drill down into specifics, but why would i do that? Its not like there aren't more than enough people inside Microsoft that hates the UI and has long lists of things they think should be changed.
If you talk about Gnome, it has gone to hell lately. Mostly because they took a small-screen touch based interface and tried to meld it onto a desktop. Its as stupid as taking Metro and cramming it ontop of Windows7. Oh wait...Windows 8 right?
KDE is doing very fine on the other hand, as is LXDE, XFCE and many others that has gotten an influx of activity now that Gnome hit the wall.
Except, that's not how it works. The only people who like the horrible UI mess that is Metro is the true believers. The Yesmen that would be happy with a brick with "Turn Over!" written on both sides, but only if it was a new game from Microsoft.
The last thing in the world i would want on any phone is Metro. To be frank, it sucks. The UI is clunky, unusable, inflexible and really just a try in making something diffrerent, not better.
The nerd in me says, cool a testament of just how flexible Android is, but why the worst UI in the world?
Technically OS/2 was very impressive.
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Had excellent scripting, good multitasking, was very stable at the time compared to just about anything that you could run on PC hardware. I also remember it as being very fast, unless you ran Windows applications on it.
IBM was just not flexible enough to win. The exact same thing is happening to Microsoft right now with the only difference being that while IBMs desktop efforts died with very solid products at hand, Microsoft falls on their nose with crapware. Dont get me started on the duct taped Windows Phone 7 GUI with dripping glue onto Windows 7 that is called Windows 8. Every single engineer involved in that crap should be ashamed to the bones.
The bargain bin is where Nokia has shined in the last years. While their presence in the smartphone market has been pretty much obliterated they still sell most phones in the lower segments. That android now starts eroding that market as well is bad news for Nokia, very bad news. At the same time their high end smartphones are bombing totally except for the N9 maemo but Elop happily stuck a knife in that product and smiled while stomping on its head.
It wiil be very interesting to see what happens in Africa. If Android can make inroads there, its pretty much game over for Nokia.
The thing is, Microsoft current campaign is all about making Google looking bad. If Microsoft succeeds, they will drive people towards OTHER search engines, not towards Bing.
Microsoft should be worrying about their image instead of trying to make others look as retarded as them. Using heavy astroturfing is not working, not even among pretty ignorant people around me. They all just shrugs and say meh! because they have gotten used to companies like Microsoft already.
There is no "grass roots group" pushing against Google. None, Zero, Zilch.
Microsoft funds, directs and runs countless fake groups and also anyone who would happen to compete with Google is given money should they want to complain anywhere. There exist no counter-culture, only a competitor who cant compete on its merits so it has to play very very dirty instead because its products suck.
There is no friggin way i would let Microsoft anywhere near my car. They have a much too bad track record for that. This is something that makes me take two large steps away from any Ford car. I was entertaining getting a Ford but after having read this, no way in hell.
What Microsoft should be doing is making their OS more resilliant to cruft and attacks. Instead they do the opposite, throw in the towel before the game even started and just begin anew whenever anything goes wrong. I am not one bit helped by having to wipe my computer because the software on it was shite to begin with. The problem is not that reloading Windows is hard, its that it sucks so bad i have to do it at all.
Thankfully the cloud has taken off so much today that you can manage perfectly with a non Windows gadget. By the time Windows 8 comes out im not so sure people are that interested in a Windows PC any longer. Looking at current PC sales, that very much seems to be the case.
The biggest mistake Microsoft did was to completely abandon Windows Mobile, leaving no migration path whatsoever for their loyal customer base. Countless of IT-departments had to scrap tons of work. The number of projects made by third party solution vendors that had standardized on Windows Mobile is staggering. Most of them to the death loyal to Microsoft, still all they got was a knife in the back. They now has to support an abandoned mobile platform for years to come because many companies has mission critical stuff on Windows Mobile and phasing it out will take time and money. This above is the best explanation for why Windows Mobile bleeds customers at an alarming rate, but none of them seems to pickup Windows Phone. They turn to other places instead or have learned their lessons and aim for platform agnostic solutions, making Windows Phone just another client amongst all the others.
Windows Phone also do not bring anything better than iOS or Android. Its "snappiness" comes from the fact that nothing else is running on the phone because it lacks multitasking. Throw in a bunch of demanding apps in the background and no amount of programming can cram more cycles out of the CPU than is avaliable from the start.
Windows Phone is an also-ran that lacks stuff the other platforms has. Its interface is hyped to the sky but is easy because its crude and lacks many features that other UI has. Once it gets those it will be a pita to use because those things was not integrated from the start but bolted on afterwards.
To compete with the leaders, it has to offer something the others dont have. Right now there is no benefits whatsoever in a WP7 phone.
I do the same, and thanks to the actually working synking feature between all my computers its the same everywhere i sit. If i cant install Chrome on a computer its useless to me for browsing nowadays.
Often after a strong leader disappears the vacuum afterwards usually ends up in a huge power struggle from all the underlings. All the pent up motives and needs surfaces at once all over the place.
Unless the new leader is exceptionally strong and good at suppression i expect a huge power struggle at Apple where much good talent will be tossed as sharkfood. Its not unusual that power struggles like these almost destroys otherwise very healthy companies.
Unless the audience is totally ignorant to basic facts, a creationist cant win no matter how bad the atheist are. Unless the creationist can bring some kind of proof, its all just bullshit no matter how nice the package its delivered in.
Exactly my take on this. Its fun for about ten minutes and then 99% of all people just shrugs and move on. I have played with voice control for a long time and i always thought the problem was the software. Later on i have come to accept that voice input is just a gimmick. No matter how good the software becomes it still sucks as an input method, unless you are speaking with another human.
And if we take a look at the world and all the killing going on, does it look like we humans are good at interpreting language?
Its pretty hard to win a debate where the creationist cites a very old book written by countless of authors at a time when they thought the earth was flat, sickness was evil spirits and a invisible dude run around killing people because they dont worship him properly. The whole story is much more insane than anything David Lynch could ever dream up in a LSD induced trip.
On the other side you have the atheist who cites facts, proof and logic.
How the heck could a creationist win except by hypnosis of the audience or successful brainwash?
Well, that's it then. I have used Firefox since it was Phoenix. Kind of makes me sad but anything Microsoft touches quickly turns to crap and its no use hanging on and watch the trainwreck. Bye old friend.
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The differences between Google and Microsoft is very deep, especially when it comes to origin, management and how they do things.
Read through this "little" list of things Microsoft has done:
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
Then, compare that mountain of evidence against what Google has done so far. In comparison with most online business Google comes out very clean. Compared to Microsoft you have to compare to something like Monsanto before you even begin to come into the same ballpark as Microsoft.
This article is a sham and probably paid for by MS.
Google Chrome has always asked me to choose a search engine for as long as i can remember. Maybe they should include more search engines, but it does not default to Google Search.
http://techhamlet.com/2010/09/google-know-about-the-other-search-engines/
It would be nice if Microsoft released those stats to dispel the "myth". But alas, its not myths but the sad truth.
Judging from the high return rate of WP7 phones and their abysmal sales, im not at all alone in thinking it sucks. Seems impossible to sell them even at a loss like Nokia is doing right now.
You are a fool if you think UI experts have anything to say about how Windows is designed. Metro was stolen off of the Sony Ericsson X1 that was essentially Metro ontop of Windows Mobile 6.5. It is in no way, shape or form created by UI designers. And if you look at Windows 8 its utterly apparent that no UI designer has had any input whatsoever there.
Metro is a mess because its nothing but widgets called "Tiles" and hyped as something groundbreaking and special. It sucked back when Sony Ericsson did it on the SE X1 mobile phone, and it sucks just as much now that Microsoft "borrowed" it.
I could drill down into specifics, but why would i do that? Its not like there aren't more than enough people inside Microsoft that hates the UI and has long lists of things they think should be changed.
If you talk about Gnome, it has gone to hell lately. Mostly because they took a small-screen touch based interface and tried to meld it onto a desktop. Its as stupid as taking Metro and cramming it ontop of Windows7. Oh wait...Windows 8 right?
KDE is doing very fine on the other hand, as is LXDE, XFCE and many others that has gotten an influx of activity now that Gnome hit the wall.
Unity is actually quite nice on a mobile phone. Its on a Desktop it sucks. The same cant be said about Metro because that baby sucks anywhere.
Except, that's not how it works. The only people who like the horrible UI mess that is Metro is the true believers. The Yesmen that would be happy with a brick with "Turn Over!" written on both sides, but only if it was a new game from Microsoft.
The last thing in the world i would want on any phone is Metro. To be frank, it sucks. The UI is clunky, unusable, inflexible and really just a try in making something diffrerent, not better.
The nerd in me says, cool a testament of just how flexible Android is, but why the worst UI in the world?
Had excellent scripting, good multitasking, was very stable at the time compared to just about anything that you could run on PC hardware. I also remember it as being very fast, unless you ran Windows applications on it.
IBM was just not flexible enough to win. The exact same thing is happening to Microsoft right now with the only difference being that while IBMs desktop efforts died with very solid products at hand, Microsoft falls on their nose with crapware. Dont get me started on the duct taped Windows Phone 7 GUI with dripping glue onto Windows 7 that is called Windows 8. Every single engineer involved in that crap should be ashamed to the bones.
The bargain bin is where Nokia has shined in the last years. While their presence in the smartphone market has been pretty much obliterated they still sell most phones in the lower segments. That android now starts eroding that market as well is bad news for Nokia, very bad news. At the same time their high end smartphones are bombing totally except for the N9 maemo but Elop happily stuck a knife in that product and smiled while stomping on its head.
It wiil be very interesting to see what happens in Africa. If Android can make inroads there, its pretty much game over for Nokia.
The thing is, Microsoft current campaign is all about making Google looking bad. If Microsoft succeeds, they will drive people towards OTHER search engines, not towards Bing.
Microsoft should be worrying about their image instead of trying to make others look as retarded as them. Using heavy astroturfing is not working, not even among pretty ignorant people around me. They all just shrugs and say meh! because they have gotten used to companies like Microsoft already.
There is no "grass roots group" pushing against Google. None, Zero, Zilch.
Microsoft funds, directs and runs countless fake groups and also anyone who would happen to compete with Google is given money should they want to complain anywhere. There exist no counter-culture, only a competitor who cant compete on its merits so it has to play very very dirty instead because its products suck.
We see through it, all of us.
There is no friggin way i would let Microsoft anywhere near my car. They have a much too bad track record for that. This is something that makes me take two large steps away from any Ford car. I was entertaining getting a Ford but after having read this, no way in hell.
What Microsoft should be doing is making their OS more resilliant to cruft and attacks. Instead they do the opposite, throw in the towel before the game even started and just begin anew whenever anything goes wrong. I am not one bit helped by having to wipe my computer because the software on it was shite to begin with. The problem is not that reloading Windows is hard, its that it sucks so bad i have to do it at all.
Thankfully the cloud has taken off so much today that you can manage perfectly with a non Windows gadget. By the time Windows 8 comes out im not so sure people are that interested in a Windows PC any longer. Looking at current PC sales, that very much seems to be the case.
The biggest mistake Microsoft did was to completely abandon Windows Mobile, leaving no migration path whatsoever for their loyal customer base. Countless of IT-departments had to scrap tons of work. The number of projects made by third party solution vendors that had standardized on Windows Mobile is staggering. Most of them to the death loyal to Microsoft, still all they got was a knife in the back. They now has to support an abandoned mobile platform for years to come because many companies has mission critical stuff on Windows Mobile and phasing it out will take time and money. This above is the best explanation for why Windows Mobile bleeds customers at an alarming rate, but none of them seems to pickup Windows Phone. They turn to other places instead or have learned their lessons and aim for platform agnostic solutions, making Windows Phone just another client amongst all the others.
Windows Phone also do not bring anything better than iOS or Android. Its "snappiness" comes from the fact that nothing else is running on the phone because it lacks multitasking. Throw in a bunch of demanding apps in the background and no amount of programming can cram more cycles out of the CPU than is avaliable from the start.
Windows Phone is an also-ran that lacks stuff the other platforms has. Its interface is hyped to the sky but is easy because its crude and lacks many features that other UI has. Once it gets those it will be a pita to use because those things was not integrated from the start but bolted on afterwards.
To compete with the leaders, it has to offer something the others dont have. Right now there is no benefits whatsoever in a WP7 phone.
I do the same, and thanks to the actually working synking feature between all my computers its the same everywhere i sit. If i cant install Chrome on a computer its useless to me for browsing nowadays.
Often after a strong leader disappears the vacuum afterwards usually ends up in a huge power struggle from all the underlings. All the pent up motives and needs surfaces at once all over the place.
Unless the new leader is exceptionally strong and good at suppression i expect a huge power struggle at Apple where much good talent will be tossed as sharkfood. Its not unusual that power struggles like these almost destroys otherwise very healthy companies.
A tradeshow that wanted to appeal to 99% of the exhibitors customers? Or wait, make that 100%.
"Does God Exist?" is a pretty good debate topic.
One side just sits there and asks for proof, the other side tries to avoid answering that simple question for the reminder of the debate.
Unless the audience is totally ignorant to basic facts, a creationist cant win no matter how bad the atheist are. Unless the creationist can bring some kind of proof, its all just bullshit no matter how nice the package its delivered in.
Exactly my take on this. Its fun for about ten minutes and then 99% of all people just shrugs and move on. I have played with voice control for a long time and i always thought the problem was the software. Later on i have come to accept that voice input is just a gimmick. No matter how good the software becomes it still sucks as an input method, unless you are speaking with another human.
And if we take a look at the world and all the killing going on, does it look like we humans are good at interpreting language?
Its pretty hard to win a debate where the creationist cites a very old book written by countless of authors at a time when they thought the earth was flat, sickness was evil spirits and a invisible dude run around killing people because they dont worship him properly. The whole story is much more insane than anything David Lynch could ever dream up in a LSD induced trip.
On the other side you have the atheist who cites facts, proof and logic.
How the heck could a creationist win except by hypnosis of the audience or successful brainwash?
Well, that's it then. I have used Firefox since it was Phoenix. Kind of makes me sad but anything Microsoft touches quickly turns to crap and its no use hanging on and watch the trainwreck. Bye old friend.