I lived through DEC/VAX, Sun Workstations, the first MacIntoshes, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, etc., etc. I find it ABSOLUTELY AMAZING that no one gets why Microsoft is successful REMEMBER that Sun (and every other UNIX vendor) REFUSED to ship their advanced OS on standard processors and hardware. Oh yeah, and so did Apple. THAT led to the rise of Microsoft. LOGICALLY we should all be (and should have been for years) running UNIX on Intel processors (hmm oh yeah, that's what Linux is--and why has it taken so long for THAT to roll out?--because of the GREED AND SHORTSIGHTEDNESS of the hardware-addicted box manufacturers! Oh yeah, and by the way, Microsoft has been RELIGIOUS about maintaining backward compatibility with their prior gen products--no STRANDING users of apps on prior OS'es like Mac. Oh, and that MIGHT be what has made an investment in their products a better return over the years--and why their are so many security holes in the product--and why it takes so long to rev the OS. When you start from scratch you can always build a better product--but corporates would much rather have that backward compatibility. It may seem naive and overly simplistic, but Microsoft literally carries the weight of the corporate development budget every rev. They HAVE to get it right... I KNOW that they can be: contemptible, mean, pushy, feature-bloating, etc... but they ARE WHERE THEY ARE BECAUSE CUSTOMERS CHOSE THEM... now i know that the customers chose them almost too much--now they have to live with them. and there is choice--and many with choices still choose msft...
Has anyone considered the lever Apple has with their iPod/iTunes installed base? What IF Apple makes it so iTunes doesn't run in Vista--I'm using a beta copy of Vista right now and it doesn't like iTunes--Apple's official response is no response here... So Apple, at the consumer decision point this back to school and holiday season in particular, pushes iPod users that are buying a NEW PC to look more seriously at Apple on the margin--"don't worry, this Mac will run both Windows and Mac..." I think it's a no-brainer for Apple near term, perhaps longer term they push people away from a Windows ONLY machine with boot camp et al... I welcome anyone's thoughts here please.
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I lived through DEC/VAX, Sun Workstations, the first MacIntoshes, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, etc., etc. I find it ABSOLUTELY AMAZING that no one gets why Microsoft is successful REMEMBER that Sun (and every other UNIX vendor) REFUSED to ship their advanced OS on standard processors and hardware. Oh yeah, and so did Apple. THAT led to the rise of Microsoft. LOGICALLY we should all be (and should have been for years) running UNIX on Intel processors (hmm oh yeah, that's what Linux is--and why has it taken so long for THAT to roll out?--because of the GREED AND SHORTSIGHTEDNESS of the hardware-addicted box manufacturers! Oh yeah, and by the way, Microsoft has been RELIGIOUS about maintaining backward compatibility with their prior gen products--no STRANDING users of apps on prior OS'es like Mac. Oh, and that MIGHT be what has made an investment in their products a better return over the years--and why their are so many security holes in the product--and why it takes so long to rev the OS. When you start from scratch you can always build a better product--but corporates would much rather have that backward compatibility. It may seem naive and overly simplistic, but Microsoft literally carries the weight of the corporate development budget every rev. They HAVE to get it right... I KNOW that they can be: contemptible, mean, pushy, feature-bloating, etc... but they ARE WHERE THEY ARE BECAUSE CUSTOMERS CHOSE THEM... now i know that the customers chose them almost too much--now they have to live with them. and there is choice--and many with choices still choose msft...
Has anyone considered the lever Apple has with their iPod/iTunes installed base? What IF Apple makes it so iTunes doesn't run in Vista--I'm using a beta copy of Vista right now and it doesn't like iTunes--Apple's official response is no response here... So Apple, at the consumer decision point this back to school and holiday season in particular, pushes iPod users that are buying a NEW PC to look more seriously at Apple on the margin--"don't worry, this Mac will run both Windows and Mac..." I think it's a no-brainer for Apple near term, perhaps longer term they push people away from a Windows ONLY machine with boot camp et al... I welcome anyone's thoughts here please.