What is world coming to? Of all the places on earth, Mississippi is becoming the champion of privacy.
Next thing you are going to tell me is Hell is better place than heaven. (But I will keep away from both for right now)
Voice Dialing is one of the feature that is listed. I do not have iPhone, I thought VD was a standard feature on the phones coming out today.
The phone I have was bought in 2006 (Motorola razr), even this dinky phone has voice dialing. I cannot believe people stood in line to buy a iPhone that do not even offer voice dialing for that hefty price?
Why is he talking about saving money. This is the time we need to be thinking about spending. We are proposing a trillion plus dollar budget and this guy is talking about win-win situation. Tax payers have lot of money. As soon as you get to a govt position where you have some decision on spending, you need to start treating Tax payers as ATM machines. That should be the litmus test for becoming a govt. employee.
This CIO seems to fail in that regard. I ask all of you call your representatives and senators to push for firing of this guy.
Thank you all and God Bless the USA.
We need to stop this socialist OS called Linux. How dare companies use this in their devices in this economy.
People work for free to create this OS and where is the contribution to society. MS on the other hand should be encouraged to sue companies like
RedHat, IBM etc.
Ballmer the saviour of capitalism is boon to IT world. GO BALLMER
Stop Tom Toming about MS suing Tom Tom, damn european socialists might do something.
Microsoft did all the things listed out of necessity. That was the innovation
for PC industry to move further. Where as Apple is stiffling the innovation.
They are the bad guys. They need to open their system. You cannot expect the
same from MS because we are dealing with two different kinds of environment
and goals.
GO Ballmer be the champion for openness and also 3Es (Embarce, Extend and Extingush)
PS: Can you please mail me whatever that you are smoking?
India has been attributed to World's Largest Democracy. I am not sure if it has been attributed to Oldest Democracy. Do you have any links that points to that?
Next step for EU to dictate MS to stop integrating Windowing interface with the OS and provide a way for users to choose which Windowing they are going to use. WOW. This is going to be great.
Why has Microsoft gone back to DRM when the vast majority of music services have ditched it?
A: It's a first step. We are looking for some idiots who do not look elsewhere on the web and we will make profit off of them. With the likes of iTunes and Amazon offering DRM-free music that you can play on any device, why would anyone choose the MSN Mobile service?
A: There may well be people who are just idiots who buy whatever we throw at them. The fee for downloading tracks - £1.50 - is relatively high compared to 79p on iTunes and less than that on certain Amazon tracks. Why is that?
A: Yes. We are not looking for people who are savvy enough to shop around. You are asking too many good questions. This service is not for you.
I feel bad for Microsoft. They are getting hit from multiple quarters. Dell wants to ship Linux with laptops and now toshiba with Open solaris.
Apple is expanding their notebook sales. In this economy, people need to protect our flagship company. I think this can solved by govt. by providing a bailout package of $30 billion to MS.
Please call your representatives and senators so they can save our Flagship company.
AM news station here in Atlanta which is pretty popular during driving hours were warning today. People will certainly take a note when it is broadcasted on the news
I am really amazed at the inept of the legal department of Microsoft. People in this country sue for petty things and it is a known way to circumvent the deceptive marketing tactics with disclaimers in tiny fonts that no one could read. Why didn't Microsoft legal department came up a disclaimer that said Aero interface requires Supercomputer to run. I guess this case would have folded long time back.
I think everybody knows there are discounts involved in the licenses. At a govt client site for Share point server, we needed CALs for about 15K laptops and 45K desktops. The total cost without discount would have been approx. $2000000. with the discount it came to about approx $420,000.
I think this is common with private enterprises too.
People are waiting in line to buy our product and you are complaining about not working in 64 bit OS. Man, this was not released to people like you. The buyers we thought would shell out this kind of money to buy our product will only be running 32 bit OS. You sir, should get a life.
Thanks
Apple Customer support.
If all the suites acted like the one you have described there wouldn't be any Linux in corporates. Linux may not be used as a desktop OS. It is being used and is extending its market share on server side.
I do agree there are some who are ignorant and are not willing to use Linux at all.
With a client I am working with, we did a cost analysis for using Linux on desktop and for their business we found using Linux helps in reducing cost by 28% over 3 years compared to windows (Including Support from Novell, Application Migration, administrators training and all. Frankly some of the windows admins were very eager to learn linux and wanted to extend their knowledge too). We have moved the entire call center agents (about 1600 empolyees or about 12% of the workforce) desktops to Suse. All the applications they use is web based applications and work fine on FireFox. All the servers (on which call center apps run) we use now have been migrated to Linux (We had Windows 2003 on which we were running BEA Weblogic).
We will be migrating one division at a time. Suites understand Money and when you show them the cost benefit they will switch. Use that. Bring out a business case and show them how they can save money. I am a contractor and so I will sell to get business and same should go for employees too. Just don't go selling because you do not like Ms
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What is world coming to? Of all the places on earth, Mississippi is becoming the champion of privacy.
Next thing you are going to tell me is Hell is better place than heaven. (But I will keep away from both for right now)
Voice Dialing is one of the feature that is listed. I do not have iPhone, I thought VD was a standard feature on the phones coming out today. The phone I have was bought in 2006 (Motorola razr), even this dinky phone has voice dialing. I cannot believe people stood in line to buy a iPhone that do not even offer voice dialing for that hefty price?
Why is he talking about saving money. This is the time we need to be thinking about spending. We are proposing a trillion plus dollar budget and this guy is talking about win-win situation. Tax payers have lot of money. As soon as you get to a govt position where you have some decision on spending, you need to start treating Tax payers as ATM machines. That should be the litmus test for becoming a govt. employee. This CIO seems to fail in that regard. I ask all of you call your representatives and senators to push for firing of this guy. Thank you all and God Bless the USA.
We need to stop this socialist OS called Linux. How dare companies use this in their devices in this economy. People work for free to create this OS and where is the contribution to society. MS on the other hand should be encouraged to sue companies like RedHat, IBM etc.
Ballmer the saviour of capitalism is boon to IT world. GO BALLMER
Stop Tom Toming about MS suing Tom Tom, damn european socialists might do something.
Microsoft did all the things listed out of necessity. That was the innovation for PC industry to move further. Where as Apple is stiffling the innovation. They are the bad guys. They need to open their system. You cannot expect the same from MS because we are dealing with two different kinds of environment and goals. GO Ballmer be the champion for openness and also 3Es (Embarce, Extend and Extingush) PS: Can you please mail me whatever that you are smoking?
What about apologies to Canadians? >:[ NONE Given
India has been attributed to World's Largest Democracy. I am not sure if it has been attributed to Oldest Democracy. Do you have any links that points to that?
Next step for EU to dictate MS to stop integrating Windowing interface with the OS and provide a way for users to choose which Windowing they are going to use. WOW. This is going to be great.
Why has Microsoft gone back to DRM when the vast majority of music services have ditched it?
A: It's a first step. We are looking for some idiots who do not look elsewhere on the web and we will make profit off of them.
With the likes of iTunes and Amazon offering DRM-free music that you can play on any device, why would anyone choose the MSN Mobile service?
A: There may well be people who are just idiots who buy whatever we throw at them.
The fee for downloading tracks - £1.50 - is relatively high compared to 79p on iTunes and less than that on certain Amazon tracks. Why is that?
A: Yes. We are not looking for people who are savvy enough to shop around. You are asking too many good questions. This service is not for you.
I feel bad for Microsoft. They are getting hit from multiple quarters. Dell wants to ship Linux with laptops and now toshiba with Open solaris. Apple is expanding their notebook sales. In this economy, people need to protect our flagship company. I think this can solved by govt. by providing a bailout package of $30 billion to MS. Please call your representatives and senators so they can save our Flagship company.
AM news station here in Atlanta which is pretty popular during driving hours were warning today. People will certainly take a note when it is broadcasted on the news
I did not RTFA, Is is just the US Market or euro included?
This is year for Linux Desktop. Hurray!!!
I am really amazed at the inept of the legal department of Microsoft. People in this country sue for petty things and it is a known way to circumvent the deceptive marketing tactics with disclaimers in tiny fonts that no one could read. Why didn't Microsoft legal department came up a disclaimer that said Aero interface requires Supercomputer to run. I guess this case would have folded long time back.
You are one grump old man
I think everybody knows there are discounts involved in the licenses. At a govt client site for Share point server, we needed CALs for about 15K laptops and 45K desktops. The total cost without discount would have been approx. $2000000. with the discount it came to about approx $420,000. I think this is common with private enterprises too.
Does this contradict Indo-Aryan Migration
MS is thinking about giving away Windows for Free but with Ads. I think that is better from business perspective.
No wonder, They sold the sixth one now.
reaching the end of internet with blazing speed
Phermones from men might have helped them.
People are waiting in line to buy our product and you are complaining about not working in 64 bit OS. Man, this was not released to people like you. The buyers we thought would shell out this kind of money to buy our product will only be running 32 bit OS. You sir, should get a life. Thanks Apple Customer support.
I thought "Big Mac" was a burger...
No wonder all my super powers are gone.
I do agree there are some who are ignorant and are not willing to use Linux at all.
With a client I am working with, we did a cost analysis for using Linux on desktop and for their business we found using Linux helps in reducing cost by 28% over 3 years compared to windows (Including Support from Novell, Application Migration, administrators training and all. Frankly some of the windows admins were very eager to learn linux and wanted to extend their knowledge too). We have moved the entire call center agents (about 1600 empolyees or about 12% of the workforce) desktops to Suse. All the applications they use is web based applications and work fine on FireFox. All the servers (on which call center apps run) we use now have been migrated to Linux (We had Windows 2003 on which we were running BEA Weblogic).
We will be migrating one division at a time. Suites understand Money and when you show them the cost benefit they will switch. Use that. Bring out a business case and show them how they can save money. I am a contractor and so I will sell to get business and same should go for employees too. Just don't go selling because you do not like Ms