Marketing department? Haven't you noticed that in nearly every comments section about Microsoft, 99% of the posts are dicing up Microsoft to be fed to a pack of rabid coyotes?
There aren't even that many comments for this article, meaning, largely, people don't care. The people who do care enough to post are ambivilent.
I wonder if Microsoft won't have Sony's insight into the PS1/PS2 mix. At least up until recently, I could still buy a PS1. If Microsoft axes the first XBox entirely, instead of driving for lower price points, they will be missing out on an entire market.
I've seen the other posts of people who don't get the commercials. Does it have anything to do with the commercials being done by "Mozilla Europe" and the complaints are possibly coming from the USA? Being from the USA, there's lots of European stuff that just flies over my head.
Such an outlier in the software industry can't last long. What other company makes those kinds of stats? Microsoft sells operating system and office suites, for cripes sake.
GM is a bad example, BTW. Have you been watching the news, lately?
Soft drinks will probably be the next Big Tobacco scandal. Just on the news last night, they said teenagers are estimated to average two sodas a day. I know if I did that, I'd be another 50 lbs. overweight after a few years. 300 extra calories a day with a sedentary lifestyle is just a recipe for disaster.
MS isn't going to lose anything, they are simply to strong and ingrained in the market.
This denial is rampant in the Microsoft universe. Just wait for telcos to start selling rent-a-thin-client services, just wait for businesses to start realizing the affect of switching to open systems to their bottom line.
Microsoft really doesn't add much value anymore over the cheaper alternatives, and that is always the driving factor in the long run.
Gaming: XBox is probably their future. If Windows and Office fall from dominance, I might actually consider buying an XBox. However, until then, I'll buy PlayStations or Nintendo.
TV: no way, there is already huge competition in this market, "MSNBC" no longer has the "MS", and service providers want real operating systems on their hardware.
Internet: I use Google, Yahoo, my local ISP, all the internet routers and critical servers run some form of UNIX.
Computer: I haven't given Microsoft money in years. Win 98 is it for me. Most of the time I use UNIX/Linux.
Telephones: Huh? Nonexistent on landlines, Microsoft on cell phones is a joke.
Handhelds: Bigger presence, but this is a smaller market.
Since Stallman was the creator of GNU/Linux, and didn't drink deeply of Java, he's been pissing on Sun's parade ever since then.
It seems several FOSS icons do this. Sun could give them the goose that lays all the OSS code in the world, and they would still bitch about Sun. It's amazing, really.
It still can't conduct much current. I remember a physics demo in high school, where the electrodes to a light bulb were immersed in distilled water. The lightbuld didn't light until the teacher dumped some salt into the beaker.
Yeah, whenever I read the "but it ain't Free" pouting at Slashdot, I wonder how all the three-year-olds in the world learned to use computers, log into slashdot, and type their nonsense.
Many threads at slashdot really are like living with a spoiled kid who grew up in a family who gave them everything, even the pony if a girl and a sports car if a boy. The sense of entitlement is rediculous. There is no "we will take what we can get, this is non-profit after all" it's all "you didn't give us everything we asked for so screw you".
If anything ruins the credibility of the FSF fan club, it is this attitude. No compromises. No negotiable points. It's awful.
Itanium is DOA outside of scientific/engineering tasks. POWER5 is better, but the only options are AIX (going out of fashion) or Linux (immature on this platform). For mission critical databases Solaris/SPARC is about the only mature UNIX platform going forward. AIX, HPUX, Tru64, etc. and mainframes are either becoming very niche platforms or are very expensive.
BTW, I wouldn't be suprised if a modern dual-core Opteron is at least ten times faster than an UltraSPARC II. Two 2+GHz cores vs. one 400MHz core is a pretty wide spread plus HT is several times faster than UPA, even if the UltraSPARC gets a little more done per clock.
The GP's statement about a 8 socket opteron system beating a 64 socket Starfire might be an exageration, but it probably isn't too far off, especially considering comparing a 7 foot tall behemoth to a 4U rack system w/ a RAID next to it.
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Marketing department? Haven't you noticed that in nearly every comments section about Microsoft, 99% of the posts are dicing up Microsoft to be fed to a pack of rabid coyotes?
There aren't even that many comments for this article, meaning, largely, people don't care. The people who do care enough to post are ambivilent.
I wonder if Microsoft won't have Sony's insight into the PS1/PS2 mix. At least up until recently, I could still buy a PS1. If Microsoft axes the first XBox entirely, instead of driving for lower price points, they will be missing out on an entire market.
If $300 ain't selling for a loss, I need to find a new store to buy stuff at.
MTV is for music?!? I thought it was the "biggest losers on Earth who try to kill eachother for fun channel".
If you use graphics as the only gauge, then the games you like suck.
The PS1 has some really fun games. Even stuff like Loony Tunes Racing is a blast, which boosts the PS2's library of _fun_ games by a large margin.
I've seen the other posts of people who don't get the commercials. Does it have anything to do with the commercials being done by "Mozilla Europe" and the complaints are possibly coming from the USA? Being from the USA, there's lots of European stuff that just flies over my head.
Well Windows still runs old Win16 software
Really? Does Microsoft _guarantee_ it?
I think reality is people have very mixed results with legacy apps in Windows.
Such an outlier in the software industry can't last long. What other company makes those kinds of stats? Microsoft sells operating system and office suites, for cripes sake.
GM is a bad example, BTW. Have you been watching the news, lately?
Soft drinks will probably be the next Big Tobacco scandal. Just on the news last night, they said teenagers are estimated to average two sodas a day.
I know if I did that, I'd be another 50 lbs. overweight after a few years. 300 extra calories a day with a sedentary lifestyle is just a recipe for disaster.
MS isn't going to lose anything, they are simply to strong and ingrained in the market.
This denial is rampant in the Microsoft universe. Just wait for telcos to start selling rent-a-thin-client services, just wait for businesses to start realizing the affect of switching to open systems to their bottom line.
Microsoft really doesn't add much value anymore over the cheaper alternatives, and that is always the driving factor in the long run.
No one can crack an operating system that never got installed.
The whole point is that Asia is just about the only growth market left, and Microsoft has not been invited to the party.
Wind-O's?
If anyone could sell a fart in a box, it'd be Microsoft.
How many embedded developers use Windows?
I'd be even Java is used more on embedded systems than anything from Microsoft.
Gaming: XBox is probably their future. If Windows and Office fall from dominance, I might actually consider buying an XBox. However, until then, I'll buy PlayStations or Nintendo.
TV: no way, there is already huge competition in this market, "MSNBC" no longer has the "MS", and service providers want real operating systems on their hardware.
Internet: I use Google, Yahoo, my local ISP, all the internet routers and critical servers run some form of UNIX.
Computer: I haven't given Microsoft money in years. Win 98 is it for me. Most of the time I use UNIX/Linux.
Telephones: Huh? Nonexistent on landlines, Microsoft on cell phones is a joke.
Handhelds: Bigger presence, but this is a smaller market.
Touché.
Since Stallman was the creator of GNU/Linux, and didn't drink deeply of Java, he's been pissing on Sun's parade ever since then.
It seems several FOSS icons do this. Sun could give them the goose that lays all the OSS code in the world, and they would still bitch about Sun. It's amazing, really.
You guys are too smart for slashdot.
It still can't conduct much current. I remember a physics demo in high school, where the electrodes to a light bulb were immersed in distilled water. The lightbuld didn't light until the teacher dumped some salt into the beaker.
Should have used extra virgin olive oil.
Considering the likely type of person who enjoys overclocking systems in tubs of oil, using "extra virgin" oil would just be redundant.
So seriously, of all of the major language choices, which would be better?
EMACS
Though, I don't understand the need to throw in Linus's name. That would be called a "rider"
Yeah, whenever I read the "but it ain't Free" pouting at Slashdot, I wonder how all the three-year-olds in the world learned to use computers, log into slashdot, and type their nonsense. Many threads at slashdot really are like living with a spoiled kid who grew up in a family who gave them everything, even the pony if a girl and a sports car if a boy. The sense of entitlement is rediculous. There is no "we will take what we can get, this is non-profit after all" it's all "you didn't give us everything we asked for so screw you". If anything ruins the credibility of the FSF fan club, it is this attitude. No compromises. No negotiable points. It's awful.
Itanium is DOA outside of scientific/engineering tasks. POWER5 is better, but the only options are AIX (going out of fashion) or Linux (immature on this platform). For mission critical databases Solaris/SPARC is about the only mature UNIX platform going forward. AIX, HPUX, Tru64, etc. and mainframes are either becoming very niche platforms or are very expensive. BTW, I wouldn't be suprised if a modern dual-core Opteron is at least ten times faster than an UltraSPARC II. Two 2+GHz cores vs. one 400MHz core is a pretty wide spread plus HT is several times faster than UPA, even if the UltraSPARC gets a little more done per clock. The GP's statement about a 8 socket opteron system beating a 64 socket Starfire might be an exageration, but it probably isn't too far off, especially considering comparing a 7 foot tall behemoth to a 4U rack system w/ a RAID next to it.