Microsoft was recently rated "low" in customer satisfaction. People are stuck with MS because it systematcally eliminates alternatives. It comes with the box they buy.
This is probably redundant comment but this means 1/3 of people read all the EULA's frequently. Ridiculous! The other day I signed on to chase.com site and they had not one but 2 EULA/terms of service etc barf quack, each one being at least five pages long.
Face it, these things are a complete joke. Nobody in their right mind believes any but an extremely atypical user is going to read the whole thing, then decide they don't like it, and not proceed using the service.
An old (1970?) copy of Audio magazine toured Hugh Hefner's 'Playboy Mansion' and gave details of his gear and gadgets. A big reel-to-reel video recorder was pictured along with a library of Hef's favorite movies. Wow. Watch whatever movie you wanted, right in your living room. Hot stuff for the day.
OK, so the Chinese, unwilling to develop a worthy competitor to RIM, simply rip it off in a state-controlled game play. Apparently also, they do not care how this reflects on them as a people, and figure there will be no negative long-term consequences in the business world.
If he REALLY uses the full Outlook to get something done, why hasn't he gone downstairs and kicked some asses for making Outlook so effing complicated?
It's contagious. Adopt Linux and the next thing you know, people are gonna want to trade in their vests, ties, and wing-tips for something that's not painful to wear, and thus begin the unravelling of civilisation itself.
Backward compatibility is not the problem. From early on the main goal of MS software was to "burn cycles". As Intel churned out ever faster processors something had to greedily consume those cycles, keeping the customers on the upgrade treadmill forever. MS software ensured that the latest generation hardware was just good enough, but the next gen of software brought the hardware to its knees.
So, what do you get after 20 years of bloatware and burning cycles? A monster that's become impossible to manage. A monster of their own creation.
If things really are that bad upper management is not or cannot give IT what it needs to function either in leadership or in money. Having a user revolt isn't going to cause the money to be produced. Your organization is in trouble.
I'm no expert, but it's obvious that Arabic culture has had its shining moments.
So what's happened to them, that the Middle East consistently ranks at the bottom of current national standards for cultural advancement? It looks like the politics of scarcity (with Islam as a tool) devours all the cultural capital they have.
ITMS just passed 1 billion downloads after being in business a few years. That's barely $1B to Apple - as revenues. The major labels' cut can't be bigger than ~ $100M each. That's for online sales for a few years. Contrast that with Billion-dollar CD sales, merchandising, etc, per annum for any given major label.
Sounds like they're either fighting over peanuts or they're playing the long view & hoping this will ramp up to some real numbers years down the road.
you can't just follow if you want to control a market, you absolutely have to lead.
M$ has been copying stuff since day one. Innovation is good but aggression is better. If you have tons of cash, aggresive mkting, and a sharp legal staff you can kick ass. You just won't be admired for being innovative.
After the dot-com meltdown and implosion of tech jobs here in the US, many former IT'ers became cabbies, real estate agents, and Home Depot clerks to put food on the table.
Now the job market's saying 'ohhh, don't be that way, here, I have such a nice job for you...', don't fall for it. Or at least play hard to get.
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24's "Chloe" will always do it for me....
If Origami is any indication, MS is fscked.
At a recent Korean demonstration showing off Origami hardware, the software hung and choked many times.
or... how 'bout the TABLET PC??
Microsoft was recently rated "low" in customer satisfaction. People are stuck with MS because it systematcally eliminates alternatives. It comes with the box they buy.
This is probably redundant comment but this means 1/3 of people read all the EULA's frequently. Ridiculous! The other day I signed on to chase.com site and they had not one but 2 EULA/terms of service etc barf quack, each one being at least five pages long.
Face it, these things are a complete joke. Nobody in their right mind believes any but an extremely atypical user is going to read the whole thing, then decide they don't like it, and not proceed using the service.
An old (1970?) copy of Audio magazine toured Hugh Hefner's 'Playboy Mansion' and gave details of his gear and gadgets. A big reel-to-reel video recorder was pictured along with a library of Hef's favorite movies. Wow. Watch whatever movie you wanted, right in your living room. Hot stuff for the day.
I am so happy to see Microsoft finally doing some marketing. It's been so frustrating, watching their products go unnoticed for so long....
OK, so the Chinese, unwilling to develop a worthy competitor to RIM, simply rip it off in a state-controlled game play. Apparently also, they do not care how this reflects on them as a people, and figure there will be no negative long-term consequences in the business world.
If he REALLY uses the full Outlook to get something done, why hasn't he gone downstairs and kicked some asses for making Outlook so effing complicated?
(goons with pocket protectors move in, rough up 'acquisition prospect').
Bill Gates leaves, sniggering "checks? I didn't get rich writing checks!"
hmp.... I wonder why they don't show this one anymore....
It's contagious. Adopt Linux and the next thing you know, people are gonna want to trade in their vests, ties, and wing-tips for something that's not painful to wear, and thus begin the unravelling of civilisation itself.
Wasn't somebody appointed by DoJ to oversee MS in these antitrust matters?
What the hell are they doing?
Backward compatibility is not the problem.
From early on the main goal of MS software was to "burn cycles". As Intel churned out ever faster processors something had to greedily consume those cycles, keeping the customers on the upgrade treadmill forever. MS software ensured that the latest generation hardware was just good enough, but the next gen of software brought the hardware to its knees.
So, what do you get after 20 years of bloatware and burning cycles? A monster that's become impossible to manage. A monster of their own creation.
what's even more ironic is that according to that same link, Seymour Cray used a Mac to design the next Cray.
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So how long will people continue to be in the loop?
I, for one, welcome our self-designing, etc, etc
The IC's are doped with transparent aluminum.
If things really are that bad upper management is not or cannot give IT what it needs to function either in leadership or in money. Having a user revolt isn't going to cause the money to be produced. Your organization is in trouble.
I'm no expert, but it's obvious that Arabic culture has had its shining moments.
So what's happened to them, that the Middle East consistently ranks at the bottom of current national standards for cultural advancement? It looks like the politics of scarcity (with Islam as a tool) devours all the cultural capital they have.
"Four Legs Good...
Six Legs BETTER!"
Maybe this "satellite problem" is just a threat to Congress to stop cutting the budget?
I don't get it.
ITMS just passed 1 billion downloads after being in business a few years. That's barely $1B to Apple - as revenues. The major labels' cut can't be bigger than ~ $100M each. That's for online sales for a few years. Contrast that with Billion-dollar CD sales, merchandising, etc, per annum for any given major label.
Sounds like they're either fighting over peanuts or they're playing the long view & hoping this will ramp up to some real numbers years down the road.
you can't just follow if you want to control a market, you absolutely have to lead.
M$ has been copying stuff since day one. Innovation is good but aggression is better. If you have tons of cash, aggresive mkting, and a sharp legal staff you can kick ass. You just won't be admired for being innovative.
After the dot-com meltdown and implosion of tech jobs here in the US, many former IT'ers became cabbies, real estate agents, and Home Depot clerks to put food on the table.
Now the job market's saying 'ohhh, don't be that way, here, I have such a nice job for you...', don't fall for it. Or at least play hard to get.
Lakehead University's an engineering school, eh!
just kidding....
This is straight out of Douglas Adams.
if you're saying that the personalities of porn stars have far more data content than porno movies, then obviously you've never seen any...
... NOT to give the wife the remote...