I'll make my point clearer - the strategies that MS seems to be employing to
take on the competition or *innovate* are all linear.
There is nothing revolutionary in anything. Google on the other hand heavily
invests in lateral thinking - something which brought Yahoo! ahead of the pack
at one time and of course Yahoo! time to market for all their products was
excellent.
Another example is Hotmail. It just takes one genius improvement and I mean real
genius to change the fundamentals of an existing concept. Of course, if it is
accepted - it will kill the "predictable."
In my opinion, another excellent move on MS's part would have been to
takeover Trillian years ago and developed their potential - especially when they
were collaborating at one time with Yahoo! and AIM to use a inter-compatible
messaging protocol.
Hmm... when I was applying to come to the US (2 years ago) every person who
applied to UK or Australia was either rejected from US universities/US Consulate
or was a dumb kid with loads of money who wanted to study/settle in a 6-lane
highway country. BEFORE you start raising hell - I said *majority*
There are exceptions to *everything*
I would suggest you to try to send in an application with your grades to
UK/Oz and come back when you have some financial aid with at least 50% of your
choices. They need not even be top schools.
Besides - do you really think a poor Indian kid back home in Bombay, is going
to dream about going and living in Toronto? When he has the option of choosing
NYC, LA, Chicago, DC, Houston all of which are very well *marketed* in the
media?
On average - I don't think that Canada is even mentioned in India's questionably
top English Newspaper (The Times of India) once a day.
Try getting a work permit in Germany/Italy/Spain. Granted France/London are
easier but not without a lot of trouble.
In fact, M$ has ALWAYS followed. Any other way is too expensive.
They let others bust their balls trying to develop something that survives out there in the market place.
If and when it does, they swoop in, 'integrate' it into their system and steal the market.
That is not entirely true. MS failed with the:
XBOX (still lose making)
PDA
Mobile phones (which will change in their favor if no one comes up with an
alternative that efficiently integrates with Windows Technologies)
Image software
Encarta service
ISP
MSN Explorer
MSN as a whole
MSNBC (adds no value to MS as a whole in any way - except for a "me too effect")
Voice recognition
TerraServer - they failed to do anything business oriented with it for 6 years
Their *massive* plan to scan all major artworks in very high resolution
- nothing has come out of that either
It's amazing how a company which has so much power, money and resources at
their disposal uses *some* of it to do very interesting stuff - yet at the end
of the day fails to come up with any successful revolutionary business plans
whatsoever.
All they have in their pocket is Windows and Office which still is most of their
revenue. Of course, buying out Bungie and hence Halo helps but that not enough.
Yes, the system is designed for "you" to get over it and move along. He's paid his dues to society - we don't need another device to add to the already insane paranoia levels in the US and it's Govt who in reality have to deal with *nothing* compared to Europe/Asia.
There is a reason why there's more boobies in Europe!
No kidding, you're right. A drive through any of those "strong" city downtowns will show you that they are headed towards desolation. The young ones born there have long left those cities in the past 10 years and you only have old people left back.
Besides, when your're an international student, you better work hard you - have nothing to fall back on, have alread made a lot of investments towards the education and have plenty of people back home counting on you to make it through.
There is a reason why people in the West are technologically more advanced over the centuries than those in the East/closer to the equator. Nature's always been a little crueler to them. It's the same psychology here.
It's about people going to the US to study and work in America, who are from India, and then taking the knowledge back to India, along with all the business.
Wake up call. Most people who make it to the US from third world countries (Indians included) NEVER return. Unless, forced otherwise for whatever reason. It is a very, very small percentage of people who go back to India. Moreover, when they do - it is usually at managerial positions.
As far as outsourcing is concerned - no one needs to come to the US to learn how to code or make cheap clothes. That's a completely different ballgame. Hell, most of the machines used to make cheap products is million $ equipment imported from the US.
Most students would simply go to another country without these restrictions, such as United Kingdom, Germany or other countries with good educational opportunities.
I don't think that's quite right. The US is still the only country which will give you a job and a home at the end of the day with least trouble. European countries on the other hand, are notorious for ensuring you get kicked out right after your education is finished or as soon as you are out of a job.
Sure think about it. Rather than increasis the thickness - you increase the area you get more power and screen size.
so from 3 inches you go back to 2 but increase the screen size and use the extra area for adding more power.
Also increased are and reduced thickness will make heat dissipation as easier problem.
You're right - looks basically like a scaled up PDA - in fact scaled up PDA's should do awesome in the market. Everything is mobile except the display is now 15" Should be easy on the eyes - fast - and connected.
I agree... come to India and leave a DVDR burnt side up and within a few hours the disc is unreadable in many sectors. Talk about resilience... these discs are worse than floppies in reliability. I remember the days I used to carry CDRs in my jacket without any cases and they used to be just fine.
Britannica's takeover of Wikipedia was a a joke... right? For April Fool's day?
Anyways, this is another MS train to derail pretty soon... just like their blogger and search along with a host of other 'seem-good' projects turned UFIA.
Completely off topic post...
I am trying to find out - how common does a search term/phrase/expression (in numbers) need to be before google starts spitting it out in Google Suggest?
I've looked all over but haven't found any concrete figures or official data.
Thanks!
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I'll make my point clearer - the strategies that MS seems to be employing to take on the competition or *innovate* are all linear.
There is nothing revolutionary in anything. Google on the other hand heavily invests in lateral thinking - something which brought Yahoo! ahead of the pack at one time and of course Yahoo! time to market for all their products was excellent.
Another example is Hotmail. It just takes one genius improvement and I mean real genius to change the fundamentals of an existing concept. Of course, if it is accepted - it will kill the "predictable."
In my opinion, another excellent move on MS's part would have been to takeover Trillian years ago and developed their potential - especially when they were collaborating at one time with Yahoo! and AIM to use a inter-compatible messaging protocol.
Sure... but doesn't it make it that much trickier for their parents...
Hmm... when I was applying to come to the US (2 years ago) every person who applied to UK or Australia was either rejected from US universities/US Consulate or was a dumb kid with loads of money who wanted to study/settle in a 6-lane highway country. BEFORE you start raising hell - I said *majority* There are exceptions to *everything*
I would suggest you to try to send in an application with your grades to UK/Oz and come back when you have some financial aid with at least 50% of your choices. They need not even be top schools.
Besides - do you really think a poor Indian kid back home in Bombay, is going to dream about going and living in Toronto? When he has the option of choosing NYC, LA, Chicago, DC, Houston all of which are very well *marketed* in the media?
On average - I don't think that Canada is even mentioned in India's questionably top English Newspaper (The Times of India) once a day.
Try getting a work permit in Germany/Italy/Spain. Granted France/London are easier but not without a lot of trouble.
can you just paste the comment here? Now I don't think anyone knows which comment we are talking about...
In fact, M$ has ALWAYS followed. Any other way is too expensive.
They let others bust their balls trying to develop something that survives out there in the market place.
If and when it does, they swoop in, 'integrate' it into their system and steal the market.
That is not entirely true. MS failed with the:
It's amazing how a company which has so much power, money and resources at their disposal uses *some* of it to do very interesting stuff - yet at the end of the day fails to come up with any successful revolutionary business plans whatsoever.
All they have in their pocket is Windows and Office which still is most of their revenue. Of course, buying out Bungie and hence Halo helps but that not enough.
So... where do the gay's fit in all this?
There is a reason why there's more boobies in Europe!
...waiting for someone to hack google cabs to show google cops. Now you when to "really" speed!
No kidding, you're right. A drive through any of those "strong" city downtowns will show you that they are headed towards desolation. The young ones born there have long left those cities in the past 10 years and you only have old people left back.
There is a reason why people in the West are technologically more advanced over the centuries than those in the East/closer to the equator. Nature's always been a little crueler to them. It's the same psychology here.
Wake up call. Most people who make it to the US from third world countries (Indians included) NEVER return. Unless, forced otherwise for whatever reason. It is a very, very small percentage of people who go back to India. Moreover, when they do - it is usually at managerial positions.
As far as outsourcing is concerned - no one needs to come to the US to learn how to code or make cheap clothes. That's a completely different ballgame. Hell, most of the machines used to make cheap products is million $ equipment imported from the US.
I don't think that's quite right. The US is still the only country which will give you a job and a home at the end of the day with least trouble. European countries on the other hand, are notorious for ensuring you get kicked out right after your education is finished or as soon as you are out of a job.
Actually, his bills are largely supported by Microsoft. He is part of their *subtle* PR machine.
I didn't know they had e-mail back then - I thought he just meant "spam" cans
...from the fucked up Department of Made-up Statistics-pulled-straight-out-of-my-Ass
Sure think about it. Rather than increasis the thickness - you increase the area you get more power and screen size. so from 3 inches you go back to 2 but increase the screen size and use the extra area for adding more power. Also increased are and reduced thickness will make heat dissipation as easier problem.
You're right - looks basically like a scaled up PDA - in fact scaled up PDA's should do awesome in the market. Everything is mobile except the display is now 15" Should be easy on the eyes - fast - and connected.
I agree... come to India and leave a DVDR burnt side up and within a few hours the disc is unreadable in many sectors. Talk about resilience... these discs are worse than floppies in reliability. I remember the days I used to carry CDRs in my jacket without any cases and they used to be just fine.
Anyways, this is another MS train to derail pretty soon... just like their blogger and search along with a host of other 'seem-good' projects turned UFIA.
Nah... I just like to "hold" things...
Rather 'see' the secret combination your parents use to 'remote' lock all those p0rn channels >-]
Completely off topic post... I am trying to find out - how common does a search term/phrase/expression (in numbers) need to be before google starts spitting it out in Google Suggest? I've looked all over but haven't found any concrete figures or official data. Thanks!
Nope he was resentfull of the results... 15% is too low to get any 'real' publicity...
It's /.ed already!