Especially seeing as a government can and reasonable do so, demand that if a software companying refuses to support software already purchases it should by law be required to open up the source of that software so that it can be supported by others or warrant that the support is now finally free of all bugs and security flaws.
Lol. It would be interesting to see what the UK government would do with that source code..
... would be akin to the patents office granting the US postal service a patent for the ability to scan and read al mail that passes through it's service on the claim that buying a stamp means you agreed to all the terms and conditions of service of the US postal service.
This is actually a solid business idea, extending what Google does with email to Snail mail. Just think about how much this could improve targeted mail (junk mail) by sharing keywords in your mail with advertisers. All that would be needed is technology to scan through paper envelopes.
I know the medical profession has been using tablets long before the iPad came about, this is clearly because mobility is the greater advantage in many situations. In this situation the iPad becomes a mobile web browser or a thin-client to 'cloud' services.
Still, the PC is far better for typing with, printing with, and simply doing anything productive with. And even iPad consumers tend to switch to their desktop to buy things online, because the keyboard, mouse and screen experience is better. This is true for Linux, OSX and windows.
I predict that MicrosoftConsumer would quickly cease trading in the wake of this split, leaving only Microsoft standing.
You missed a new profit center - Android Racketeering.
Lol yes, i thought of that after, i guess that would be accounted in the business division, amazingly i also forgot the MS office (productivity) which should also be accounted in the business division
That's the legend, but lets not forget the reality that Microsoft didn't have luck entering the myriad of markets occupied by Adobe, Oracle remains highly successfully in its business. I'm sure there are plenty of other companies who are successfully competing with Microsoft!
Isn't this what happened to Microsoft in the mobile/phone/tablet space? Now they are playing catch-up to both Google and Apple. Complacency is a dangerous copilot.
Google are a huge threat! Oglviy migrated all its users to "GMail", the employees really hate it vs proper exchange, outlook, office stack. But when a few massive companies like Oglviy migrate Google will improve to the point where they become more solid contenders.
AJAX was created for Outlook web access (~1998):
*http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2005/06/21/406646.aspx
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Web_App#Technology
Outlook web access was later copied by Google tocreate Gmail (~2004).
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail
Media bias caused Gmail and Google to be regarded as an innovator when infact the whole
Ajax became recommended by the w3c in 2006
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)#History
You the perfect example of error, you talk about microsoft implementing HTML5 perfectly while ignoring the fact that chrome, firefox, safari have implemented broken draft specification's of HTML5.
It turns out that sites are breaking in IE because they are non-standard, but the same sites are "working" in other browsers.
http://wmpoweruser.com/twitter-fix-mobile-twitter-css-bug-for-windows-phone/
Apple gets a free pass on most things because Apple made computing accessible to a type of audience: they write, they blog and go to confrences and talk about IT
This implies that we're talking about something premeditated and primarily racially motivated. This is not the case. As far as we know, it's a matter of someone (Zimmerman) feeling threatened on 'his' property,
Where exactly was Trayvon Martin shot, was it actually on Zimmerman's property?
From my reading Zimmerman had been stalking Trayvon for a period before shooting him how does this law apply if you shoot someone not actually on "your" property?
A few months ago the western world wailed loudly when some arab countries terminated internet and mobile phone connections because it was thought to be assisting their local rioters. Here we have a supposedly democratic country where, at the first sign of trouble, government officials are suggesting exactly the same thing.
I don’t know who was wailing, but privileging and terminating communications is a valid and good and peaceful way to disrupt social unrest. Rather than simply starting to shoot at people.
Like Politics and religion, computing has degenerated into one of those dangerous topics that can damage carreers and friendships. You just dont want to bring it up in real life conversation.
Sun just couldn't compete with Linux and Intel. Open sourcing wasn't the problem. It probably helped, just not enough.
It also didn't help that Sun at the height of its super-inflated-stock-price (and P/E) imagined it was leading some kind of epic battle with the Microsoft "empire".
Interesting that the Symbian was created to stop microsoft extending their desktop domination over phone manufacturers. After 10 years (of symbian) later its hard to see them using operating systems like Windows Phone 7, or Android which come with much more stringent specifications and hardware dictats.
Meh... Google will send you apple fanbois back to 2001 - angry and resentful... uh! wait
and heading towards what most people dislike about the iPhone (single marketplace)
I don't think "most people dislike" this, Nerdfest. I realize it's a fairly common sentiment here on Slashdot, but most people have different priorities.
Maybe their doing what Linus Torvalds did with Git, in reversing every decision that CVS made
The thing is, Microsoft just isn't that talented. I don't mean they don't have talented employees, but that the way the company works, talent just doesn't enter into it. What they do, what they've always done, is copy what others have done, and unlike Apple who, when they copy they make things better (that's what "good artists copy, great artists steal" means), MS copies poorly. The first few iterations are atrocious. But eventually they copy things so thoroughly that, what the hell, it's good enough, right?
Technologically, MS has always been behind the curve. Macs, Amigas, OS/2. All made Windows (and DOS!) look pathetic. But price and hardware support, along with some horrible, but effective, business tactics won out.
And it looks like MS is trying the same here, but without the ability to engage in the same old business tactics, and without the sort of market where price and hardware support is as important as it was during the PC era. So, like you said, I just don't see how this will work out well for them. They can't out-class iPhone, or out-geek Android, and they can't tie their monopoly to it.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. MS has a way of sticking around with technically inferior offerings. It's like a gambler with enough money to keep doubling down. You don't have to win right away, you just have to win somewhere along the line. MS doesn't have the burden of caring about whether their products are good, they just want them to sell, and they have the money and the will to stick around until they do. They'll keep "reinventing" their products (WinCE to Windows Mobile to Windows Phone 7, with Zune and Kin thrown in for good measure) until something sticks.
I totally agree with your rage, but the difference is Apple sells and always has to an extent on usability not functionality, and yes nokia, microsoft and what not have been selling smart capable mini devices decades before apple, but beyond the camera, no one with a life could use them.
75% of iPad Own Macs so you should change:
"and hate the way their PCs work"
to
"and hate the way their Macs work", and since this is true, you should really replace "HP" with "MacBook*" since that's actually closer to the truth about the average iPad owner
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Especially seeing as a government can and reasonable do so, demand that if a software companying refuses to support software already purchases it should by law be required to open up the source of that software so that it can be supported by others or warrant that the support is now finally free of all bugs and security flaws.
Lol. It would be interesting to see what the UK government would do with that source code..
This is actually a solid business idea, extending what Google does with email to Snail mail. Just think about how much this could improve targeted mail (junk mail) by sharing keywords in your mail with advertisers. All that would be needed is technology to scan through paper envelopes.
I know the medical profession has been using tablets long before the iPad came about, this is clearly because mobility is the greater advantage in many situations. In this situation the iPad becomes a mobile web browser or a thin-client to 'cloud' services.
Still, the PC is far better for typing with, printing with, and simply doing anything productive with. And even iPad consumers tend to switch to their desktop to buy things online, because the keyboard, mouse and screen experience is better. This is true for Linux, OSX and windows.
Splitting Microsoft along business/consumer lines:
MicrosoftBusiness:
*WindowsDesktop (Profitable)
Profits for Windows Desktop are declining.
Declining would imply that sales were less than before. Last quarter sales were actually flat year on year.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153837-microsoft-reports-weak-windows-8-sales-in-q1-2013-says-it-will-respond-to-customer-feedback
*WindowsServer (Profitable)
*WindowsServerApplications (Profitable)
*WindowsCloud (Profitable)
*WindowsMouseAndKeyboardWhatnots (Profitable)
MicorsoftConsumer:
*Bing (Lossy)
*Xbox (BreakEvens)
*WindowsPhone (Lossy)
*WindowsTablets (Lossy)
I predict that MicrosoftConsumer would quickly cease trading in the wake of this split, leaving only Microsoft standing.
You missed a new profit center - Android Racketeering.
Lol yes, i thought of that after, i guess that would be accounted in the business division, amazingly i also forgot the MS office (productivity) which should also be accounted in the business division
That's the legend, but lets not forget the reality that Microsoft didn't have luck entering the myriad of markets occupied by Adobe, Oracle remains highly successfully in its business. I'm sure there are plenty of other companies who are successfully competing with Microsoft!
Splitting Microsoft along business/consumer lines:
MicrosoftBusiness:
*WindowsDesktop (Profitable)
*WindowsServer (Profitable)
*WindowsServerApplications (Profitable)
*WindowsCloud (Profitable)
*WindowsMouseAndKeyboardWhatnots (Profitable)
MicorsoftConsumer:
*Bing (Lossy)
*Xbox (BreakEvens)
*WindowsPhone (Lossy)
*WindowsTablets (Lossy)
I predict that MicrosoftConsumer would quickly cease trading in the wake of this split, leaving only Microsoft standing.
HTML is supposed to be platform agnostic. This is explicitly balkanizing it.
But isn't HtML5 already balkanized with vendor prefixes and the video tag.
I personally would never code open source software for Microsoft APP store to benefit... #deathtowidowsphone #longliveandroid
These changes prepare the way for this http://www.neowin.net/news/vlc-for-windows-8-funding-exceeds-kickstarter-goal
Microsoft says it does not yet see a threat.
Isn't this what happened to Microsoft in the mobile/phone/tablet space? Now they are playing catch-up to both Google and Apple. Complacency is a dangerous copilot.
Google are a huge threat! Oglviy migrated all its users to "GMail", the employees really hate it vs proper exchange, outlook, office stack. But when a few massive companies like Oglviy migrate Google will improve to the point where they become more solid contenders.
AJAX was created for Outlook web access (~1998): *http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2005/06/21/406646.aspx *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Web_App#Technology Outlook web access was later copied by Google tocreate Gmail (~2004). *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail Media bias caused Gmail and Google to be regarded as an innovator when infact the whole Ajax became recommended by the w3c in 2006 *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)#History
You the perfect example of error, you talk about microsoft implementing HTML5 perfectly while ignoring the fact that chrome, firefox, safari have implemented broken draft specification's of HTML5. It turns out that sites are breaking in IE because they are non-standard, but the same sites are "working" in other browsers. http://wmpoweruser.com/twitter-fix-mobile-twitter-css-bug-for-windows-phone/
Name what has been embraced, extended and extinguished ?
Apple gets a free pass on most things because Apple made computing accessible to a type of audience: they write, they blog and go to confrences and talk about IT
This implies that we're talking about something premeditated and primarily racially motivated. This is not the case. As far as we know, it's a matter of someone (Zimmerman) feeling threatened on 'his' property,
Where exactly was Trayvon Martin shot, was it actually on Zimmerman's property? From my reading Zimmerman had been stalking Trayvon for a period before shooting him how does this law apply if you shoot someone not actually on "your" property?
I suspect we would rather have 3 days of rioting than 3 hours of what happened in Norway.
Looting, burning and general mayhem is the norm of any protest which actually causes a change. Ghandi and Martin Luther King are the rare exceptions.
A few months ago the western world wailed loudly when some arab countries terminated internet and mobile phone connections because it was thought to be assisting their local rioters. Here we have a supposedly democratic country where, at the first sign of trouble, government officials are suggesting exactly the same thing.
I don’t know who was wailing, but privileging and terminating communications is a valid and good and peaceful way to disrupt social unrest. Rather than simply starting to shoot at people.
Like Politics and religion, computing has degenerated into one of those dangerous topics that can damage carreers and friendships. You just dont want to bring it up in real life conversation.
Sun just couldn't compete with Linux and Intel. Open sourcing wasn't the problem. It probably helped, just not enough.
It also didn't help that Sun at the height of its super-inflated-stock-price (and P/E) imagined it was leading some kind of epic battle with the Microsoft "empire".
Interesting that the Symbian was created to stop microsoft extending their desktop domination over phone manufacturers. After 10 years (of symbian) later its hard to see them using operating systems like Windows Phone 7, or Android which come with much more stringent specifications and hardware dictats.
The whole thing is fake you twat. http://gizmodo.com/5637203/drunk-email-to-obama-gets-british-teen-banned-from-america-for-life.
and i call you a twat cause its my freedom of speech and because you should check your facts before spewing
"Windows for Mac users" - isn't that called boot camp?
and heading towards what most people dislike about the iPhone (single marketplace)
I don't think "most people dislike" this, Nerdfest. I realize it's a fairly common sentiment here on Slashdot, but most people have different priorities.
Maybe their doing what Linus Torvalds did with Git, in reversing every decision that CVS made
The thing is, Microsoft just isn't that talented. I don't mean they don't have talented employees, but that the way the company works, talent just doesn't enter into it. What they do, what they've always done, is copy what others have done, and unlike Apple who, when they copy they make things better (that's what "good artists copy, great artists steal" means), MS copies poorly. The first few iterations are atrocious. But eventually they copy things so thoroughly that, what the hell, it's good enough, right?
Technologically, MS has always been behind the curve. Macs, Amigas, OS/2. All made Windows (and DOS!) look pathetic. But price and hardware support, along with some horrible, but effective, business tactics won out.
And it looks like MS is trying the same here, but without the ability to engage in the same old business tactics, and without the sort of market where price and hardware support is as important as it was during the PC era. So, like you said, I just don't see how this will work out well for them. They can't out-class iPhone, or out-geek Android, and they can't tie their monopoly to it.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. MS has a way of sticking around with technically inferior offerings. It's like a gambler with enough money to keep doubling down. You don't have to win right away, you just have to win somewhere along the line. MS doesn't have the burden of caring about whether their products are good, they just want them to sell, and they have the money and the will to stick around until they do. They'll keep "reinventing" their products (WinCE to Windows Mobile to Windows Phone 7, with Zune and Kin thrown in for good measure) until something sticks.
I totally agree with your rage, but the difference is Apple sells and always has to an extent on usability not functionality, and yes nokia, microsoft and what not have been selling smart capable mini devices decades before apple, but beyond the camera, no one with a life could use them.
75% of iPad Own Macs so you should change: "and hate the way their PCs work" to "and hate the way their Macs work", and since this is true, you should really replace "HP" with "MacBook*" since that's actually closer to the truth about the average iPad owner