In my view MS primarily innovates how to integrate things (unfortunately so much that you cannot do without the whole kitten caboodle) and package them for delivery. With web based services their old package/delivery method will not work. It will be interesting to see if they can take their method and apply it (with modifications) to web based services. i wonder if that would require any innovation or will it be more integration?
I agree with you. I do prefer MS Office 2007 over OpenOffice and MS Office 2003 purely from productivity point of view. I find myself moving my cursor much less and spending more time with keyboard shortcuts with MS Office 2007 than the others, which for me is a big selling point. But I guess the question then is how much am I willing to pay for it when OpenOffice does 80-90% of what the MS version does. I honestly don't know - never calculated it.
I recently had my company switch to this and it works pretty well. my boss is especially glad to have something that offers Email and Calendar (tho not as well as Outlook or Evolution). For small businesses who don't want to store their own data I would definitely suggest this service. Of course there is no easy way to sync google calendar with an offline client. but hopefully in the future?
i totally agree with you. from the press releases and news articles it seems that MS is ensuring that every popular application such as JBoss,
PHP and Ruby runs as well on Windows as it does on Linux. With MS dollars they will ensure all sorts of compatibility/interoperability with other portions of Windows (IIS, IE etc) - which to be blunt is all MS does - ensure compatibility (within strict rules of course). So now Windows will once again become a choice for deployment of stacks - which Linux currently is.
from your comment I can extend to state that very few (none possibly) open source companies can survive because proprietary companies can just leach off them? i was trying to convince my company (MCAD tools) to go open source but if successful (to some extent) open source companies like Red Hat can't keep their products sufficiently profitable (assuming that this move by Oracle will drop Red Hat subscriptions) for even 5-7 years then what chances to smaller companies have?
I sort of agree with you but I do have reservations about Kerala being called a purely communist state. This communist government was elected into power and knowing Indian politics this situation goes back and forth - commie now and different democratic-commie later . the biggest downfall of having a commie govt is the labor force. the labor force - organized and unorganized alike - are nearly impossible to deal with. very difficult to get work done with them. my wife and her parents are from Kerala and I get to hear of the continuous labor problems almost daily. but surprisingly Kerala also is the only state in India that can claim 100% literacy (though it is suspect as to what "literacy" means in that case). So I don;t know if we can compare communism in the former USSR to communism in Kerala(India).
I have played with your hardware/software. Your rep stopped by our lab for a demo. I must say I was impressed but a lot of work still needs to be done especially with using models other than mass-spring so the organs don't feel like water filled balloons and response among others. The work suggested here is definitely needed though I don't know how complete/advanced it is.
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hahahahahahahah. that was a gooooo-ooo-oood one. haha. sorry i dont have any points to give you a funny rating but i did laugh hard.
In my view MS primarily innovates how to integrate things (unfortunately so much that you cannot do without the whole kitten caboodle) and package them for delivery. With web based services their old package/delivery method will not work. It will be interesting to see if they can take their method and apply it (with modifications) to web based services. i wonder if that would require any innovation or will it be more integration?
I agree with you. I do prefer MS Office 2007 over OpenOffice and MS Office 2003 purely from productivity point of view. I find myself moving my cursor much less and spending more time with keyboard shortcuts with MS Office 2007 than the others, which for me is a big selling point. But I guess the question then is how much am I willing to pay for it when OpenOffice does 80-90% of what the MS version does. I honestly don't know - never calculated it.
From reading most of the comments... was I the only who laughed hard after reading this?
isn't this an ad for the energizer battery, or at least some battery ad?!
thanks for that youtube link. amazing stuff. did not know about that.
How did this conversation go from Ubuntu art to murder and sex? Very interesting comments though.
it's a cookbook. it's a cookbook.
or for the movie freak - Humans as batteries (The Matrix).
I recently had my company switch to this and it works pretty well. my boss is especially glad to have something that offers Email and Calendar (tho not as well as Outlook or Evolution). For small businesses who don't want to store their own data I would definitely suggest this service. Of course there is no easy way to sync google calendar with an offline client. but hopefully in the future?
i totally agree with you. from the press releases and news articles it seems that MS is ensuring that every popular application such as JBoss, PHP and Ruby runs as well on Windows as it does on Linux. With MS dollars they will ensure all sorts of compatibility/interoperability with other portions of Windows (IIS, IE etc) - which to be blunt is all MS does - ensure compatibility (within strict rules of course). So now Windows will once again become a choice for deployment of stacks - which Linux currently is.
and how about the words "Abort, Retry, Ignore"? I was hoping to see those on the mask too.
from your comment I can extend to state that very few (none possibly) open source companies can survive because proprietary companies can just leach off them? i was trying to convince my company (MCAD tools) to go open source but if successful (to some extent) open source companies like Red Hat can't keep their products sufficiently profitable (assuming that this move by Oracle will drop Red Hat subscriptions) for even 5-7 years then what chances to smaller companies have?
we have deep freeze installed on windows m/cs in univ of tx at arlington and it is the best from what i have played with.
actually Google is yet to "buy" and open source business
I sort of agree with you but I do have reservations about Kerala being called a purely communist state. This communist government was elected into power and knowing Indian politics this situation goes back and forth - commie now and different democratic-commie later . the biggest downfall of having a commie govt is the labor force. the labor force - organized and unorganized alike - are nearly impossible to deal with. very difficult to get work done with them. my wife and her parents are from Kerala and I get to hear of the continuous labor problems almost daily. but surprisingly Kerala also is the only state in India that can claim 100% literacy (though it is suspect as to what "literacy" means in that case). So I don;t know if we can compare communism in the former USSR to communism in Kerala(India).
I have played with your hardware/software. Your rep stopped by our lab for a demo. I must say I was impressed but a lot of work still needs to be done especially with using models other than mass-spring so the organs don't feel like water filled balloons and response among others. The work suggested here is definitely needed though I don't know how complete/advanced it is.