So what?? Times are changing. I also think the cable company better watch out as well; they have had that market to themselves and it is the same thing. The old copper cable phone company is going to be outdone when fiber is in any home. Verizon will provide the better option at a fair market value and in the same fashion as phone companies. Most copper telephone companies have contracts as well!
Bill is a great expert in people creating their own realities and then not being able to understand actual reality. He is so out of touch with reality that he has no idea what he is talking about...
Precisely, asking to be bitten. But the thing is before the Sys Ads get to the punch, Microsoft has already partnered with bigger businesses that force thier products down the throats of the end-users, leaving the decision to implement a technology not in the hands of the IT department, but in the hands of the users and business owners that will be saving time and money with great new web based technologies.. again securing the future of Microsoft by weaving themselves into the fabric of the corporate buying power.
Any good salesperson will tell you that selling stuff is all about finding the audience with the best buying power, shifting the buying power from asking the IT department before a purchase, to the user having the buying power with cost savings, a technology not being stable according to the IT guy doesn't fly, thats collateral damage to a business owner, they care about cost savings, and that is always the priority with Microsoft. Microsoft always aligns thier goals with thier customers goals... thier business customer has the persistant goal of making money, yes above the goal of surviving patches, upgrades and possible outages.
I think Microsoft loves to make changes like this that secure a workforce of people like us to be dependent on them, they are not doing this without regard to the amount of work that will be necessary to bring IE7 into widespread use, alot of that PITA is under the radar to the users; and they see this as a way of causing an economy of IT people to be dependant on Microsoft. I think the subtle action of Microsoft when they make changes like this gives more leverage to anybody screaming monopoly, nobody cares about stuff like this, this is just what they do... but thier teeth get sank deeper and deeper into IT when they do things like this and that is the important factor for Microsoft.
All the SA's need to keep a close eye to this one, my company supports users that use a MAJOR payroll company (ADP) and their software will not work with IE 7. Many applications will cease to work in the same fashion, especially if they are security laden type web-based applications. My WSUS server is not going to let this update pass, regardless of the tabbed browsing and the new glitz and glam, Microsoft has gone too far in their blatant disregard for the customer's best interest. This will cause problems for a bunch of people when they do it. Historically, lots of time and energy are wasted when they push updates like this.
I'm no programmer, but is is ridiculous that you release a full version upgrade (IE 7) and it cannot perfom the vendor-specific functions of the previous version (IE 6). What kind of action is that? Microsoft is interested in one thing in this market and that is money. Again they prove thier point.
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So what?? Times are changing. I also think the cable company better watch out as well; they have had that market to themselves and it is the same thing. The old copper cable phone company is going to be outdone when fiber is in any home. Verizon will provide the better option at a fair market value and in the same fashion as phone companies. Most copper telephone companies have contracts as well!
Bill is a great expert in people creating their own realities and then not being able to understand actual reality. He is so out of touch with reality that he has no idea what he is talking about...
Yeah, I think Apple should find out if Movie Monday's would increase productivity as well, combine the two for a uber-productive work environment...
Precisely, asking to be bitten. But the thing is before the Sys Ads get to the punch, Microsoft has already partnered with bigger businesses that force thier products down the throats of the end-users, leaving the decision to implement a technology not in the hands of the IT department, but in the hands of the users and business owners that will be saving time and money with great new web based technologies.. again securing the future of Microsoft by weaving themselves into the fabric of the corporate buying power. Any good salesperson will tell you that selling stuff is all about finding the audience with the best buying power, shifting the buying power from asking the IT department before a purchase, to the user having the buying power with cost savings, a technology not being stable according to the IT guy doesn't fly, thats collateral damage to a business owner, they care about cost savings, and that is always the priority with Microsoft. Microsoft always aligns thier goals with thier customers goals... thier business customer has the persistant goal of making money, yes above the goal of surviving patches, upgrades and possible outages.
I think Microsoft loves to make changes like this that secure a workforce of people like us to be dependent on them, they are not doing this without regard to the amount of work that will be necessary to bring IE7 into widespread use, alot of that PITA is under the radar to the users; and they see this as a way of causing an economy of IT people to be dependant on Microsoft. I think the subtle action of Microsoft when they make changes like this gives more leverage to anybody screaming monopoly, nobody cares about stuff like this, this is just what they do... but thier teeth get sank deeper and deeper into IT when they do things like this and that is the important factor for Microsoft.
All the SA's need to keep a close eye to this one, my company supports users that use a MAJOR payroll company (ADP) and their software will not work with IE 7. Many applications will cease to work in the same fashion, especially if they are security laden type web-based applications. My WSUS server is not going to let this update pass, regardless of the tabbed browsing and the new glitz and glam, Microsoft has gone too far in their blatant disregard for the customer's best interest. This will cause problems for a bunch of people when they do it. Historically, lots of time and energy are wasted when they push updates like this. I'm no programmer, but is is ridiculous that you release a full version upgrade (IE 7) and it cannot perfom the vendor-specific functions of the previous version (IE 6). What kind of action is that? Microsoft is interested in one thing in this market and that is money. Again they prove thier point.