It's a typewriter, people. If you want to watch movies, get a movie player.
AppleTV is $300 and HD DVD is $500, and you can get a PS3 if you want Blu-Ray for not much more than that. A year from now the comparison will be even more ridiculous. Microsoft has nothing to offer you in consumer video, they don't know what it is, they don't know how to build it, and finally, they will always fuck it up intentionally to be more MS-centric, as well as unintentionally with their legendary lack of quality.
Honestly, this article would be more newsworthy if it turned out Vista really was a good movie player. That would be surprising. As it is, this is just more dog bites man. Yawn.
There is no way I'm going to run any third party code on my iPhone except in the Web 2.0 browser. The very small upside of native code doesn't outweigh the tiresome I-T work and the privacy concerns. Also iTunes is my iPhone I-T, what is on the phone is just a cache, even the OS X is like a cache of Mac OS X. If Apple makes an easy way to choose some extra apps then maybe.
Besides, the iPhone is not empty, it has my music and movies and mail and photos and contacts and bookmarks and they are all useful. Having the entire Web in there really dampens the enthusiasm for installing apps, the phone has an always-on wireless Web connection with no metering. The iPhone is much more of a menu to other things than a box you run software on. It's all interface, the phone itself has an Ajax philosophy.
Calls and mail and Web 2.0 are the three primary things for a smart phone. Native apps is not even 4th. I would put PDF, Podcasts, music, movies, photos next before native apps. That gives you access to information, the complete range of stuff. Information at your finger tips..
Other mobiles do not even have Web 1.0 so WTF are they doing trying to have native apps? It's like they think the Web is a fad. And their interfaces are simply out of 1994 as well. First be a good phone then maybe try to be a good computer.
If their boxes were distinctive people would link to their porno shots and blog about how drool worthy Sun's stuff is. Generate buzz. If the guts are unique then you can explain that with unique external features. Every bit of investment in this pays off as free advertising. Watch the buzz on the next iMac.
The way the Web is intended to look is like the Photoshop designs that most sites are based on, with print-style typography. It's when the designs are implemented in the browser that the same old shitty fonts are slapped on. From design to implementation the only thing that changes visually is the text, except in Safari which also has print-style typography. We are about to go to 300 dpi displays and screen and print will be the same, all the screen hacks are nearly obsolete.
Also these Microsoft fonts are some of the worst typefaces every created. Not only are they clones but they are made deliberately too square so as not to tax MS Windows' shitty font rendering. The best thing you can do for your eyes is to remove them from your system immediately. Mac OS X includes much better typefaces that will simply look much better. Once you remove Arial you'll see Helvetica which is the original and in an artfully done implementation.
Apple and Google are the two hottest tech companies today and they are both direct to consumer, used by regular people, not procured by I-T from an approved list from head office. People from all walks of life choose and buy and use Apple products, and people from all walks of life use Google Search and read Google Ads and even think "Google" means "Internet". That is real meat in the seats. You can rely on those people to come back again and again. They're proof that Apple and Google can sell to any arbitrary person, they have 100% potential user base, not just the 10% who are computer nerds.
You can't scale up with the expansion of the Web if you're only selling to nerds, the nerds get here first, the later people are way less nerdy than you would think. For example, PC Magazine may have had 50% of the Web as their readership in 1995, but that didn't scale. The white box PC didn't scale, it's been replaced by phones which is only just becoming obvious as the phones get real Web browsers. MS Windows didn't scale, with 60,000 coders they took 12 years to get from 4.0 to 6.0 and the only innovation was the botnet.
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Use the tablet everywhere. If your Art Pen has a button, set it to double-click. Set Expose so that the bottom right corner is Desktop, then a kick of your elbow shows you the Desktop. Put Expose all windows on the bottom left, you will be very fast in the interface. Another tip is to make AppleScript droplets so you can drop things on them to process a batch in one very fast step.
I haven't used anything but Wacom tablets and a keyboard since 1999 and I am significantly faster at everything than a mouse user and no tendinitis. However you may get calluses where the Pen touches.
A 9x12 is the same width as a keyboard, makes the UI into a real place you can touch. The mouse or trackball is rolling an egg around with a spoon.
That's the beauty of San Francisco, Steve Jobs and Jerry Garcia are both local heroes. Cupertino and Berkeley are both local towns. Now the Mac is Unix. Peace love understanding.
They submitted it on an Intel Mac because that is today's hardware. However the exact same Leopard that was tested can also run on PowerPC, there is only one Leopard. The Intel and PPC binaries are peas in the same pod. There is one installer that runs on all 21st century Macs.
This is the first time ever that a vulnerability has been found in a smart phone and it's been patched ahead of the public demo of the exploit.
There is this meme that the iPhone is not ready for the enterprise because it doesn't have MAPI and special I-T management tools. Yet here we have the first vulnerability in the iPhone and it is promptly patched through a system that will distribute the patches very quickly and easily. A stark contrast to other mobiles. There are multiple holes in Symbian and of course Windows Mobile that remain completely unpatched. Nobody knows when that is going to change. For all the enterprise bluster around those systems they are not patching zero-day exploits.
There are many reasons that the Mac is more secure than Windows, but a big reason is that OS X is such a moving target. Every quarter for 5 years there has been a new version which updates itself automatically. Exploits are made less valuable not just because of the smaller user base than Windows, but also because of the short shelf life of each OS version. The vast majority of Mac users are using the very latest OS and have all the patches applied even though the vast majority of Mac users have no I-T staff and no I-T skills.
When the iPhone first shipped and people started hacking it, there was a lot of talk then that every hack may be temporary, a software update could come down through iTunes at any time and reset the game. There is nothing like that protecting any other mobile.
If you are making word processing tools that aren't Web native you are stuck in the 1980's. What is needed is an everyone interface to making documents for the Web.
What is the point of making styles that aren't CSS? Why use hidden formatting codes that aren't HTML? You are re-inventing the wheel, something OSS does even more than Microsoft, which is why everybody pretends that OSS does no such thing, e.g. 500 Linux distributions none of which could beat $3 Windows/Office in China. Now you want me to learn how to convert people's ODF encrypted work into HTML and that's an improvement over converting people's shifty DOC encrypted work? Bull fucking shit.
If you save the user's work Web-native, Microsoft will have no argument, even the most non-technical user is delighted to make Web content, they won't ask for any converters.
For reference, look at Dreamweaver 1, 2, 3. Macromedia had an unexpected thing happen where like half their users came from MS Word and had no design or coding background. These users complained about Dreamweaver being $299 and having no DOC importer, but they were there anyway to do "word processing" and Save Web pages. Today it is more relevant, there is more user content than ever and yet it is truly easier to put a movie on the Web than an essay.
As a coder who makes word processing tools for general use, it is your Responsibility to bring your users into the Web tool chain. You should be saving HTML, CSS, JavaScript to disk or to URL. Wrap it up in a Mac-style bundle if necessary (compare a Mac Widget, a folder with one HTML one CSS one JavaScript that appears as a single icon).
You're forgetting that the cost of electricity to run the car is like paying 50 cents per gallon instead of $3.50, and notice that gas really costs you ten times more through taxes and environmental damage and desert military adventures and asthma and so on.
You are talking about electric only. The Dean Kaman part is to make it a hybrid on order to increase the range. At the same time you could turn the Stirling off to take a quiet scenic drive.
Anything made by humans can be art. The way you tell is if the artist says it is. It has nothing to do with the medium. If Da Vinci used pastels or oils it doesn't matter. Whatever mediums are available, humans will make art with it. It's bizarre to presume you would know better than the artist, it is the worst pomposity to look at something an artist made and say is it art? It's like listening to someone talk and saying is it speech? Only one step worse is to say high art, that is always applied randomly or retroactively it makes no sense, you are better to talk about the weather.
Doesn't matter if the message is received, just that it was sent. Whatever the content or medium, a message is a message, art is art.
Space and power and cooling for your 2 GB RAM may not be available in there. It might be very hard to disassemble and reassemble just to get at the RAM.
I think you compare this kind of notebook to a smart phone more than a typical PC. Once you're making something this small that runs on batteries it is just one device. If it doesn't have enough juice for something you want to do, you trade-up to a newer or beefier model. The more integrated and standardized stuff is, the better the resale value, though, the better the software compatibility.
Mac OS X exists to run Mac apps. There is a philosophy behind it that says build a capability into the machine, such as a multichannel pro audio system, and then that capability belongs to the user, and developers can exploit it on behalf of the user. If you try to run Mac OS X apps on another system you will be limited at best to those that are very similar to the ones the other system already has. So no problem running Firefox, but how are you going to run Photoshop without color management? There are all these system tools that just aren't there on Linux yet.
What's worse is that with virtualization being so mature you can run Linux or Windows on the Mac Desktop anyway. Takes an hour to set up and costs $50 and everything works. Or maybe you're a Linux fanboy who doesn't use the computer as a tool but more like a T-shirt with a gnu on it. In that case, never mind.
You can easily share a disk over Wi-Fi(n) from your MacBook.
- format the disk HFS+J - plug it into your MacBook - choose Apple Menu > System Preferences and then choose the Sharing preference - check the box next to "Personal File Sharing" and also the one next to "Windows Sharing" and choose System Preferences > Quit - choose AirPort Menu > Create Network, name your network and optionally choose encryption and click OK - login to your new network from up to 10 nearby machines, whether they are Mac, Windows or Unix with Samba you will get all the files out on any system
If you don't want to carry the MacBook, you can replace it in the above with an AirPort Extreme Base Station and all you'll have to do to set up is plug your disk into the USB on the base station and it will share the disk automatically over the network it creates. If you don't have a USB disk enclosure yet you can get ones that stack with the AirPort Extreme to make a remarkably small package that you just plug into AC wherever you are and your network will be up in about 30 seconds and serve 30 users, again whether they are Mac, Windows, or Unix with Samba.
HFS+J gives you journaling, Unicode, long file name and large file support, rich indexing for instant searches, rich metadata, only one disallowed character in file names, Unix permissions, Mac metadata, fast multimedia streaming (way faster than any Windows file system I have seen this demonstrated) and is modern enough (1998) to get you through to ZFS. Also all your HFS+J administration tools are there on your MacBook already and are all GUI and easy to use. Or if you prefer you can use the command-line tools that are also on your MacBook (e.g. fsck).
Also if you don't know about Disk Utility then check it out, it can copy an entire disk including file system into a single file on any file system. It's really handy for people who are interacting with multiple file systems.
There's something to this' but it isn't about the $100 laptop. It's the performance per watt metric.
Every chip has a sweet spot where it gives the most performance per watt. Increase the power by another 20% and you only get 3% more performance, but decrease the power by the same amount and lose 30% performance. So what's happening now is you find the sweet spot for that core then add more cores. So you can put 8 or 16 cores in a workstation and put one in a notebook, yet both might run at 3 GHz.
So no matter how high end a CPU gets from now on there is always the option to make just a piece of it for the low-end market.
Also a lot of what people thought would be low-end PC's is turning into high-end phones. Most people do not want a PC but they do want the subset of features that makes an iPhone.
Either way it is good because the small number of real Web clients in the world is abyssmal. We truly failed in Web 1.0 and have to cast a much wider net for Web 2.0.
Windows XP was the dramatic rewrite of Windows on a new core, if you are running XP that was almost 10 years on the making.
Microsoft has already failed at all of these things people want them to do, you have to look elsewhere and fast because Windows 7.0 is just one release after Vista (6.1) it is going to be mostly the same. Microsoft Research hasn't fixed major architectural flaws. The sloppy security of the app platform is just one problem. For example the apps are all hard-coded to 96 dpi and nothing has been done to move forward. Displays with 300 dpi are essentially print devices, MS hasn't got any printing chops, even Word is only WYSIWYG by 1980's standards. MS also does not have a Web 2.0 browser or a lightweight browser or modern media support (MPEG-4) and their 64-bit transition is a disaster.
This guy is the kind of dreamer Microsoft feasts on. He's so full of excuses for MS yet bitter also. He wants a reward now for all the years he did free grahics driver QA. Sorry, that time is gone for good.
Which of the many Windows looks do you want Apple to use? There are different looks just within Vista based on how much you pay. If you want consistency start there.
Why would you expect the biggest name in typewriter replacement to be competitive in consumer electronics? What has MS ever done that was not at least a generation behind? The Zune 1.0 was a Gigabeat 2.0.
Microsoft sells to IT and business, they have no idea about consumers. Why expect them to? Did you see some promise in the Zune or the Xbox that the buying public missed? The only good news on the Xbox is they won't have to repair all the unsold ones.
What Web browser are they going to put in the Zune? Pocket IE is baby Web but IE is Intel only and as we all know is a deeply integrated part of the Windows typewriter. Where is MS in Web 2.0? They're not in any position to compete with Apple or Google.
Making the browser lighter won't help if you are going to surf today's Web. The Web pages are heavy. Many sites will put multiple Flash movies in a page, and there is video everywhere. User-generated content means even less QA than in the past, as well as really large pages that keep growing.
The pipe gets bigger and you have to have a bigger mouth to take a sip.
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It's a typewriter, people. If you want to watch movies, get a movie player.
AppleTV is $300 and HD DVD is $500, and you can get a PS3 if you want Blu-Ray for not much more than that. A year from now the comparison will be even more ridiculous. Microsoft has nothing to offer you in consumer video, they don't know what it is, they don't know how to build it, and finally, they will always fuck it up intentionally to be more MS-centric, as well as unintentionally with their legendary lack of quality.
Honestly, this article would be more newsworthy if it turned out Vista really was a good movie player. That would be surprising. As it is, this is just more dog bites man. Yawn.
There is no way I'm going to run any third party code on my iPhone except in the Web 2.0 browser. The very small upside of native code doesn't outweigh the tiresome I-T work and the privacy concerns. Also iTunes is my iPhone I-T, what is on the phone is just a cache, even the OS X is like a cache of Mac OS X. If Apple makes an easy way to choose some extra apps then maybe.
Besides, the iPhone is not empty, it has my music and movies and mail and photos and contacts and bookmarks and they are all useful. Having the entire Web in there really dampens the enthusiasm for installing apps, the phone has an always-on wireless Web connection with no metering. The iPhone is much more of a menu to other things than a box you run software on. It's all interface, the phone itself has an Ajax philosophy.
Calls and mail and Web 2.0 are the three primary things for a smart phone. Native apps is not even 4th. I would put PDF, Podcasts, music, movies, photos next before native apps. That gives you access to information, the complete range of stuff. Information at your finger tips..
Other mobiles do not even have Web 1.0 so WTF are they doing trying to have native apps? It's like they think the Web is a fad. And their interfaces are simply out of 1994 as well. First be a good phone then maybe try to be a good computer.
If their boxes were distinctive people would link to their porno shots and blog about how drool worthy Sun's stuff is. Generate buzz. If the guts are unique then you can explain that with unique external features. Every bit of investment in this pays off as free advertising. Watch the buzz on the next iMac.
The white box PC look is like a disguise.
The way the Web is intended to look is like the Photoshop designs that most sites are based on, with print-style typography. It's when the designs are implemented in the browser that the same old shitty fonts are slapped on. From design to implementation the only thing that changes visually is the text, except in Safari which also has print-style typography. We are about to go to 300 dpi displays and screen and print will be the same, all the screen hacks are nearly obsolete.
Also these Microsoft fonts are some of the worst typefaces every created. Not only are they clones but they are made deliberately too square so as not to tax MS Windows' shitty font rendering. The best thing you can do for your eyes is to remove them from your system immediately. Mac OS X includes much better typefaces that will simply look much better. Once you remove Arial you'll see Helvetica which is the original and in an artfully done implementation.
Apple and Google are the two hottest tech companies today and they are both direct to consumer, used by regular people, not procured by I-T from an approved list from head office. People from all walks of life choose and buy and use Apple products, and people from all walks of life use Google Search and read Google Ads and even think "Google" means "Internet". That is real meat in the seats. You can rely on those people to come back again and again. They're proof that Apple and Google can sell to any arbitrary person, they have 100% potential user base, not just the 10% who are computer nerds.
You can't scale up with the expansion of the Web if you're only selling to nerds, the nerds get here first, the later people are way less nerdy than you would think. For example, PC Magazine may have had 50% of the Web as their readership in 1995, but that didn't scale. The white box PC didn't scale, it's been replaced by phones which is only just becoming obvious as the phones get real Web browsers. MS Windows didn't scale, with 60,000 coders they took 12 years to get from 4.0 to 6.0 and the only innovation was the botnet.
Use the tablet everywhere. If your Art Pen has a button, set it to double-click. Set Expose so that the bottom right corner is Desktop, then a kick of your elbow shows you the Desktop. Put Expose all windows on the bottom left, you will be very fast in the interface. Another tip is to make AppleScript droplets so you can drop things on them to process a batch in one very fast step.
I haven't used anything but Wacom tablets and a keyboard since 1999 and I am significantly faster at everything than a mouse user and no tendinitis. However you may get calluses where the Pen touches.
A 9x12 is the same width as a keyboard, makes the UI into a real place you can touch. The mouse or trackball is rolling an egg around with a spoon.
It used to mean the other thing.
That's the beauty of San Francisco, Steve Jobs and Jerry Garcia are both local heroes. Cupertino and Berkeley are both local towns. Now the Mac is Unix. Peace love understanding.
They submitted it on an Intel Mac because that is today's hardware. However the exact same Leopard that was tested can also run on PowerPC, there is only one Leopard. The Intel and PPC binaries are peas in the same pod. There is one installer that runs on all 21st century Macs.
Terminal speaks AppleScript, so it enables you to run shell scripts from within Applescript. Unites the GUI and command line scripting.
tell app "Terminal" do shell script "foo"
If you Save the above as an app, then "foo" will be a Mac app anyone can run.
They were working towards this for a few versions. Leopard is the first one submitted for certification.
This is the first time ever that a vulnerability has been found in a smart phone and it's been patched ahead of the public demo of the exploit.
There is this meme that the iPhone is not ready for the enterprise because it doesn't have MAPI and special I-T management tools. Yet here we have the first vulnerability in the iPhone and it is promptly patched through a system that will distribute the patches very quickly and easily. A stark contrast to other mobiles. There are multiple holes in Symbian and of course Windows Mobile that remain completely unpatched. Nobody knows when that is going to change. For all the enterprise bluster around those systems they are not patching zero-day exploits.
There are many reasons that the Mac is more secure than Windows, but a big reason is that OS X is such a moving target. Every quarter for 5 years there has been a new version which updates itself automatically. Exploits are made less valuable not just because of the smaller user base than Windows, but also because of the short shelf life of each OS version. The vast majority of Mac users are using the very latest OS and have all the patches applied even though the vast majority of Mac users have no I-T staff and no I-T skills.
When the iPhone first shipped and people started hacking it, there was a lot of talk then that every hack may be temporary, a software update could come down through iTunes at any time and reset the game. There is nothing like that protecting any other mobile.
If you are making word processing tools that aren't Web native you are stuck in the 1980's. What is needed is an everyone interface to making documents for the Web.
What is the point of making styles that aren't CSS? Why use hidden formatting codes that aren't HTML? You are re-inventing the wheel, something OSS does even more than Microsoft, which is why everybody pretends that OSS does no such thing, e.g. 500 Linux distributions none of which could beat $3 Windows/Office in China. Now you want me to learn how to convert people's ODF encrypted work into HTML and that's an improvement over converting people's shifty DOC encrypted work? Bull fucking shit.
If you save the user's work Web-native, Microsoft will have no argument, even the most non-technical user is delighted to make Web content, they won't ask for any converters.
For reference, look at Dreamweaver 1, 2, 3. Macromedia had an unexpected thing happen where like half their users came from MS Word and had no design or coding background. These users complained about Dreamweaver being $299 and having no DOC importer, but they were there anyway to do "word processing" and Save Web pages. Today it is more relevant, there is more user content than ever and yet it is truly easier to put a movie on the Web than an essay.
As a coder who makes word processing tools for general use, it is your Responsibility to bring your users into the Web tool chain. You should be saving HTML, CSS, JavaScript to disk or to URL. Wrap it up in a Mac-style bundle if necessary (compare a Mac Widget, a folder with one HTML one CSS one JavaScript that appears as a single icon).
You're forgetting that the cost of electricity to run the car is like paying 50 cents per gallon instead of $3.50, and notice that gas really costs you ten times more through taxes and environmental damage and desert military adventures and asthma and so on.
You are talking about electric only. The Dean Kaman part is to make it a hybrid on order to increase the range. At the same time you could turn the Stirling off to take a quiet scenic drive.
Before Dell, people weren't clamoring to buy PC's online either. You probably just don't remember.
Anything made by humans can be art. The way you tell is if the artist says it is. It has nothing to do with the medium. If Da Vinci used pastels or oils it doesn't matter. Whatever mediums are available, humans will make art with it. It's bizarre to presume you would know better than the artist, it is the worst pomposity to look at something an artist made and say is it art? It's like listening to someone talk and saying is it speech? Only one step worse is to say high art, that is always applied randomly or retroactively it makes no sense, you are better to talk about the weather.
Doesn't matter if the message is received, just that it was sent. Whatever the content or medium, a message is a message, art is art.
Space and power and cooling for your 2 GB RAM may not be available in there. It might be very hard to disassemble and reassemble just to get at the RAM.
I think you compare this kind of notebook to a smart phone more than a typical PC. Once you're making something this small that runs on batteries it is just one device. If it doesn't have enough juice for something you want to do, you trade-up to a newer or beefier model. The more integrated and standardized stuff is, the better the resale value, though, the better the software compatibility.
Mac OS X exists to run Mac apps. There is a philosophy behind it that says build a capability into the machine, such as a multichannel pro audio system, and then that capability belongs to the user, and developers can exploit it on behalf of the user. If you try to run Mac OS X apps on another system you will be limited at best to those that are very similar to the ones the other system already has. So no problem running Firefox, but how are you going to run Photoshop without color management? There are all these system tools that just aren't there on Linux yet.
What's worse is that with virtualization being so mature you can run Linux or Windows on the Mac Desktop anyway. Takes an hour to set up and costs $50 and everything works.
Or maybe you're a Linux fanboy who doesn't use the computer as a tool but more like a T-shirt with a gnu on it. In that case, never mind.
You can easily share a disk over Wi-Fi(n) from your MacBook.
- format the disk HFS+J
- plug it into your MacBook
- choose Apple Menu > System Preferences and then choose the Sharing preference
- check the box next to "Personal File Sharing" and also the one next to "Windows Sharing" and choose System Preferences > Quit
- choose AirPort Menu > Create Network, name your network and optionally choose encryption and click OK
- login to your new network from up to 10 nearby machines, whether they are Mac, Windows or Unix with Samba you will get all the files out on any system
If you don't want to carry the MacBook, you can replace it in the above with an AirPort Extreme Base Station and all you'll have to do to set up is plug your disk into the USB on the base station and it will share the disk automatically over the network it creates. If you don't have a USB disk enclosure yet you can get ones that stack with the AirPort Extreme to make a remarkably small package that you just plug into AC wherever you are and your network will be up in about 30 seconds and serve 30 users, again whether they are Mac, Windows, or Unix with Samba.
HFS+J gives you journaling, Unicode, long file name and large file support, rich indexing for instant searches, rich metadata, only one disallowed character in file names, Unix permissions, Mac metadata, fast multimedia streaming (way faster than any Windows file system I have seen this demonstrated) and is modern enough (1998) to get you through to ZFS. Also all your HFS+J administration tools are there on your MacBook already and are all GUI and easy to use. Or if you prefer you can use the command-line tools that are also on your MacBook (e.g. fsck).
Also if you don't know about Disk Utility then check it out, it can copy an entire disk including file system into a single file on any file system. It's really handy for people who are interacting with multiple file systems.
There's something to this' but it isn't about the $100 laptop. It's the performance per watt metric.
Every chip has a sweet spot where it gives the most performance per watt. Increase the power by another 20% and you only get 3% more performance, but decrease the power by the same amount and lose 30% performance. So what's happening now is you find the sweet spot for that core then add more cores. So you can put 8 or 16 cores in a workstation and put one in a notebook, yet both might run at 3 GHz.
So no matter how high end a CPU gets from now on there is always the option to make just a piece of it for the low-end market.
Also a lot of what people thought would be low-end PC's is turning into high-end phones. Most people do not want a PC but they do want the subset of features that makes an iPhone.
Either way it is good because the small number of real Web clients in the world is abyssmal. We truly failed in Web 1.0 and have to cast a much wider net for Web 2.0.
Windows XP was the dramatic rewrite of Windows on a new core, if you are running XP that was almost 10 years on the making.
Microsoft has already failed at all of these things people want them to do, you have to look elsewhere and fast because Windows 7.0 is just one release after Vista (6.1) it is going to be mostly the same. Microsoft Research hasn't fixed major architectural flaws. The sloppy security of the app platform is just one problem. For example the apps are all hard-coded to 96 dpi and nothing has been done to move forward. Displays with 300 dpi are essentially print devices, MS hasn't got any printing chops, even Word is only WYSIWYG by 1980's standards. MS also does not have a Web 2.0 browser or a lightweight browser or modern media support (MPEG-4) and their 64-bit transition is a disaster.
This guy is the kind of dreamer Microsoft feasts on. He's so full of excuses for MS yet bitter also. He wants a reward now for all the years he did free grahics driver QA. Sorry, that time is gone for good.
Which of the many Windows looks do you want Apple to use? There are different looks just within Vista based on how much you pay. If you want consistency start there.
Why would you expect the biggest name in typewriter replacement to be competitive in consumer electronics? What has MS ever done that was not at least a generation behind? The Zune 1.0 was a Gigabeat 2.0.
Microsoft sells to IT and business, they have no idea about consumers. Why expect them to? Did you see some promise in the Zune or the Xbox that the buying public missed? The only good news on the Xbox is they won't have to repair all the unsold ones.
What Web browser are they going to put in the Zune? Pocket IE is baby Web but IE is Intel only and as we all know is a deeply integrated part of the Windows typewriter. Where is MS in Web 2.0? They're not in any position to compete with Apple or Google.
Making the browser lighter won't help if you are going to surf today's Web. The Web pages are heavy. Many sites will put multiple Flash movies in a page, and there is video everywhere. User-generated content means even less QA than in the past, as well as really large pages that keep growing.
The pipe gets bigger and you have to have a bigger mouth to take a sip.