Notice the bar for games sales and how it rises almost every year since 1999.
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Because the games developers are widening the appeal of the games to new audiences. Do you really think that elderly people using the Wii for bowling games is the same audience as 16-year-olds blowing up enemies?
Let me put that a different way... if the gaming market is growing so quickly, why are the game developers trying to entice a new type of audience?
... exactly what they should be doing --- staying abreast of and responding to competitive threats.
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The only news here is why some people think this is newsworthy. Is Microsoft trying to push this issue to the forefront in order to embelish their faulty attempt to enter the search business?
Impose an artificial 3-app limit in a new OS. The get all sorts of positive press coverage when you rescind that limit. Brilliant marketing.
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But what about the technical aspect of this? Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in its attempt to create a "marketing buzz" for Windows 7. Was Vista really that bad that Microsoft has to attempt to manipulate the press and websites to this extent in order to give the illusion that Windows 7 is better?
If Windows Vista was so bad, do you really expect Windows 7 (a.k.a. Windows Vista 1.2) to be that much better? Or is the marketing effort the actual improvement here?
ZigBee requires me to place a bunch of 2.4GHz transmitters in and around my house. Isn't that the frequency that my microwave oven, wireless phone, and 802.11g access point use? What about interference problems?
Microsoft has always endeavored to lower the bar of innovation. Why should Windows 7 be any different? It is expensive to innovate. It is less expensive to use a monopoly to stifle innovation
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If Microsoft is successful (through marketing "incentives") in strong-arming hardware OEMs to lower the hardware capabilities of future netbooks, that is nothing less than an enormous win for Microsoft.
I am nothing but amazed that the hardware OEMs do nothing but roll over and say to Microsoft, "please, Sir, may I have another."
It does expire June 1, 2010, that's when it stops working completely.
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So a computer shutting down every two hours is considered to be normal functionality by Microsoft, and it has to stop working completely in order to be considered to be abnormal functionality.
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Yet Microsoft's download site says the RC will expire on June 1, 2010, not the March 1, 2010 you imply. It is a shame that Microsoft is so misleading on this issue.
into three companies: (1) cabling infrastructure that is leased to anyone; (2) content generation and provision; (3) ISP that leases (1). Right now (2) is causing my price for (1) and (3) to rise disproportionally. I am paying more and more for my monthly bill because of (2), which I use the least of the three services.
there is so much interest in it that they can't keep up with demand.
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So what you are saying is that after all these years (decades?) Microsoft is still unable to understand the market for their products. Since Microsoft has a monopolistic hold on the market, your admission is truly damning for Microsoft. If Microsoft does not understand the market it completely controls, how level of confidence can we have in anything that Microsoft does????
a very respectful amount of money of his is going to good causes.
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It is not his money to give away. That money was stolen using illegal leveraging of Microsoft's monopoly. If Bill wanted to be a humanitarian, he should return the money to those from whom it was stolen.
Yet another puff piece...
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Trying to put a soft human side to the person who stole innovation and profits from the PC industry, who used illegal leveraging of a monopoly to build his wealth.
... especially when an entrenched monopoly (RIAA) is involved. The RIAA has the power (both economic and political) to make it very difficult for alternatives to the RIAA to gain a significant foothold. That is not to say that the RIAA will never be overthrown, it will just take time. The major labels need to see a more profitable alternative to the RIAA, but that will not happen unless/until more internet-savvy executives populate the upper ranks of the record labels.
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.... Microsoft's PR statements do not reflect the reality of what is actually occurring.
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Hey, what about us assembler programmers?
Microsoft is still planting articles in the trade press. Oh, what a surprise.
... is specious at best, damaging to Open Source at worst.
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Because the games developers are widening the appeal of the games to new audiences. Do you really think that elderly people using the Wii for bowling games is the same audience as 16-year-olds blowing up enemies?
Let me put that a different way ... if the gaming market is growing so quickly, why are the game developers trying to entice a new type of audience?
... the game companies need to do something in order to continue selling their wares.
That's the problem, he is not a security expert.
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The only news here is why some people think this is newsworthy. Is Microsoft trying to push this issue to the forefront in order to embelish their faulty attempt to enter the search business?
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I have to wonder if those who are critical of Amazon here have ever experienced a direct lightning strike? I doubt it.
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But what about the technical aspect of this? Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in its attempt to create a "marketing buzz" for Windows 7. Was Vista really that bad that Microsoft has to attempt to manipulate the press and websites to this extent in order to give the illusion that Windows 7 is better?
If Windows Vista was so bad, do you really expect Windows 7 (a.k.a. Windows Vista 1.2) to be that much better? Or is the marketing effort the actual improvement here?
Does the Emperor really have clothes this time?
Yet another lame attempt by Microsoft to be a wanted part of people's online experiences.
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That may be true. But are those competing signals designed to work with ZigBee?
ZigBee requires me to place a bunch of 2.4GHz transmitters in and around my house. Isn't that the frequency that my microwave oven, wireless phone, and 802.11g access point use? What about interference problems?
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If Microsoft is successful (through marketing "incentives") in strong-arming hardware OEMs to lower the hardware capabilities of future netbooks, that is nothing less than an enormous win for Microsoft.
I am nothing but amazed that the hardware OEMs do nothing but roll over and say to Microsoft, "please, Sir, may I have another."
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So a computer shutting down every two hours is considered to be normal functionality by Microsoft, and it has to stop working completely in order to be considered to be abnormal functionality.
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Yet Microsoft's download site says the RC will expire on June 1, 2010, not the March 1, 2010 you imply. It is a shame that Microsoft is so misleading on this issue.
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Only Microsoft could see a PC shutting down every two hours as "normal".
March 1, 2010 (not June 1, 2010) is the real end of the Release Candidate.
I was having trouble thinking of a new email address to use. Now I know it will definitely contain the letters SRJC.
into three companies: (1) cabling infrastructure that is leased to anyone; (2) content generation and provision; (3) ISP that leases (1). Right now (2) is causing my price for (1) and (3) to rise disproportionally. I am paying more and more for my monthly bill because of (2), which I use the least of the three services.
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So what you are saying is that after all these years (decades?) Microsoft is still unable to understand the market for their products. Since Microsoft has a monopolistic hold on the market, your admission is truly damning for Microsoft. If Microsoft does not understand the market it completely controls, how level of confidence can we have in anything that Microsoft does????
Windows Server just cannot handle the load.....
"You and I learned C when it was programmers, not compilers, which had to be intelligent." --- Terry Lambert
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It is not his money to give away. That money was stolen using illegal leveraging of Microsoft's monopoly. If Bill wanted to be a humanitarian, he should return the money to those from whom it was stolen.
Trying to put a soft human side to the person who stole innovation and profits from the PC industry, who used illegal leveraging of a monopoly to build his wealth.
... especially when an entrenched monopoly (RIAA) is involved. The RIAA has the power (both economic and political) to make it very difficult for alternatives to the RIAA to gain a significant foothold. That is not to say that the RIAA will never be overthrown, it will just take time. The major labels need to see a more profitable alternative to the RIAA, but that will not happen unless/until more internet-savvy executives populate the upper ranks of the record labels.