Microsofts largest client base are HOME users. The trend will continue as most new PC's are sold in retail outlets to home users and students.
Why do you think MS has been so loud in the media to deter people and companies from buying XP? Simply because IT Departments aren't jumping onto the VISTA (and soon, Win7) bandwagon. MS is trying to add the business world to their list of USERS for Windows Vista and Win7. Most fish aren't biting.
As is the case at my work place of 18,000 PC's.
MAC's have really infiltrated my campus since Vista was first released. A sign of the times, if ever one was looking for it.
- DVD/CD scratching technology (oops Xbox 360 already in stores) - Ballmers famous flying office chairs - Ford cars with their MP3 voice activation software playing Songs by Tiffany with upgrades to control the wiper blades at the same time.? - And maybe a Pre-order program for the upcoming Vista patches soon to be released under the name of Windows7.
Face it, everybody already owns a copy of Office. Their only money making venture that is still afloat.
Maybe they should open dollar stores to unload the rest of their technology which didn't HIT with the kids today.:-)
These big companies (and their CEO's) have a responsibility, and it is not with their employees. Don't bring any emotions into the issue, there is only one responsibility - to keep the SHAREHOLDERS happy.
They will (and they do) step on their fellow Americans to make money. Money for themselves and also for SHAREHOLDERS. At that point, their part in the capitalistic system is performing as expected/intended.
You have no "Right As an American" anymore, you are their consumer or your are their employee. You are nobody to the CEO's.
These big CEO's (ie: Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates [during his reign]) are doing what the SHAREHOLDER has instructed them to do with their invested money. Make me more for what I lent to you. And they do just that most of the time.
Ultimately, the consumer(You) will pay for everything in the end and your way of life will be drained of its resources (money).
We've pretty much hit that point now, which is why people like Michael DELL and Bill GATES have gobbed up as much of their money as they could, and have escaped to their big guarded houses in Cabo San Lucas MEXICO... along with all your money.
Next time you are in Mexico, take the local tours and you will find out who no has a better financial plan than you. And the matter of H1-B work permits will not even factor into it.
Buying new computers, let alone new versions of Windows won't be high on the list of necessity for the next 3 or 4 years. Ballmers salesmanship is going to end up being just a lot of hot air aimed at soon to be unemployed Windows Developers.
And folks keep saying that Windows7 will happily run on existing Vista-Capable hardware. Until I get my grubby hands on it, I will not rely on my internet peeps or other sources. "Once bitten, twice shy my friends."
I look forward to a similar WIN7-CAPABLE class action suit with this new OS.
Where's my pinch of salt?
The compelling reasons to upgrade to Windows7 just aren't there. WinNT, 2K, XP could connect to the NET, send email, compose letters, and be productive.
Why buy Win7? for the sake of a new TaskBar! Sorry, Ballmers sales job isn't that good.
Most of the companies who buy tons of PC's in bulk are the Fortune 500...Notice that a lot of these companies may no longer exist following the traumatic blood letting of the banking and housing industry. That puts the onus back on the broke home user.
Windows7 will need new hardware to run as it was intended. Although PC vendors will short sell "Win7 CAPABLE" hardware as they did the last time around.
Is Windows7 worth the expense? Soon enough the beta versions on the NET will tell all.
Get past the "I NEED THAT" ora surrounding Win7 hype. You truthfully can't afford it, or even justify it.
Just throwing another 2 cents worth onto the pile.
When Windows7 is thrust upon the end users as the default OS for new PC's, it will most likely not yet be supported by the tens of thousands of 3rd party apps.
Vista was pushed out and the only real apps on the market were a wet version of MS OFFICE2007.
I don't look forward to the new PC's arriving to my office, with a new unsopported OS. Going on a hunch that Microsoft will take the opportunity to remove more legacy support, I can assume that more of our proprietary 3rd party apps will not work on Windows7,
Our building automation (environmental controls software), our gas pump management software, or hydro metering subsystem, and dozens of other apps are doomed on Windows7 as they currently are with Windows Vista.
Read between the lines that we are still on WinXP and Win2000pro.
MACs are appearing in the office, and people really like them. XP runs well on them to boot (via vmware fusion).
Microsofts big challenge is going to be convincing the worlds 3rd party developers to embrace this new OS. And to do it without threats or forcefully pulling support agreements, etc. MS's typical business practices are their legacy.
Windows7 is akin to GM tossing a hybrid engine into a CHEVY Tahoe. It is still Vista under the hood, with a new skin on the outside.
Good luck.
And please remember to extend the life of XP for another 5 years. Thanks.
Your own posting suggests you want cloud computing to capitalize on someone elses storage services.
Invest in your own servers, register your own domain name, and build a quality service of your own that your potential clients can trust.
The burst of the DOT COM economy already taught the world that (folks like you whom are) re-marketing other peoples services was (and still is) a really bad idea.
If your gutt has a bad feeling, just don't do it.
Besides, if it appears that you are succeeding, someone like Microsoft or Google will ram you head first into the virtual ground, and it will be all over... quickly.
The internet does not need yet another middle man.
Agreed, this does feel like a bit of stating the obvious.
I think what they miss about FOSS is that at least some of the developers in the community do it as a hobby or for practice (or even resume padding so they can get a paid development job); compensation isn't that much of a sticking point for them. Some people perform tasks out of the goodness of their hearts, such as 'cut the neighbors lawn', or 'entertaining others with their guitars on the front porch'.
Others get paid to 'cut the lawn', and 'play music for the public'.
This is an example of "donation" versus "capitalism", likened to Open Source(free) versus Closed Source(overpriced) providers.
The paid person is not happy to compete with the free person, but that is the freedom of living in North America.
Sometimes the free service is better than the paid service, and the free service becomes more popular. This is the point that Microsoft missed out on entirely. Or they cannot convey that in their FUD campaign.
It is that time for the the paid person(MS) to invest in a different kind of business - like Media Players, or Online Advertising! or, maybe not.
Simply have microsoft make its slaves "code in" proper error checking for their routines in the first place...
Then they won't have to issue hundreds of patches every week, and the users PC's just might be a little
more secure.
So far VISTA is not giving a lot of positive returns, much like MS stock over the past 2 decades.
Your current apps are not likely to run (correctly, or at all) on Vista, so you need new applications.. which don't yet exist. It would therefore be foolish of industry to install Vista when there are no supported apps, with exception of the only office product which is somewhat VISTA ready (MS OFFICE 2007)
But that's a whole different argument.
We've had 35% of the students are my university, report to class carrying MACBOOKS. The rest came with VISTA laden laptops. Vista is not supported on our campus, so guess who is happy?
In North America, suing individuals has become an actual business model and accepted practice. As much as the kids that believe it it is acceptable to download music tracks without paying for them.
After the rest of the governments in the free world get on the bandwagon to bann the use of Microsoft Products (namely Office2007 and Vista ) then it won't matter much what Microsoft says.
Microsoft isn't telling us(openly) that their own XML document standard is incomplete and somewhat busted, which it is. Time for Ballmer to swallow the red pill. Quit peddling the snake oil containing features that aren't incorporated(yet) in their own products.
Everyone missed the point entirely. Or maybe the real intentions for releasing a version of SAFARI for Windows wasn't disceminated fully to the crowd.
I had a meeting with Apple Canada yesterday and they reinforced that the release of SAFARI for Windows was simply the next step prior to the release of the APPLE IPHONE.
The IPHONE will be open for 3rd party applications, which will be interfaced through WEB2.0 standards via the SAFARI browser.
If you think Apple released their browser to compete with IE, or Opera, or Firefox, then you are still in the dark; swinging at ghosts.
Get the whole story first before starting another browser holy war on an open forum.
Microsoft understands the value of a buck. And they don't get rich by paying local Whiz kids the big bucks for their talent.
They would rather take advantage of the immigration jet stream, pay less to those who appreciate the opportunity of a job in a flourishing country(other than their own), and Microsoft gets the programming tasks done in the end, for cheap.
If you are a holder of Microsoft Stock, you are partially to blame also. You can help by guiding MS to hire local talent from your own country, but that it not in your best interest either... is it?
The main reason why the HD-DVD and BLURAY selection at BestBuy and FutureShop is so meagre.
The general public is not yet buying en-mass. While the new HD players still support the older DVD format, people won't be biting into the new(more expensive) discs just for a few extra scan lines.
Most HD TV's do upscaling/upconverting fairly well. So keep buying those PREVIOUSLY VIEWED DVD's from BLOCKBUSTER. The price is right!;-)
Java already exists as a higher level interpreter to the main O.S.
There are many business class software packages which run purely on Java (OpenOffice, etc). If MS can't create their apps to run on Java, then their limitation has been identified.
Remember that Microsoft is a company with a portfolio of acquisitions, and not innovations.
I would suggest that _anyone_ who doesn't have the grasp on technology shouldn't be introducing it into the home; especially to their kids.
Ignorance isn't an excuse, and temptation by the kids shouldn't be tempted after the parents unknowingly open the door to online scum and IM predators.
What ever happened to playing hockey in the driveway, and playdough and colouring books?
Just because there is technology, doesn't mean it is the best avenue. Especially when the hydro goes out.;-)
Many parents (nowadays) give their kids money to get them out of the house and to go build their street racers(ricers) and buy cigarettes because it is easier at the end of a long work day to not have to deal with a teen who is confrontational. I saw that happen with my nephews, and I won't let that happen to me own two boys.
If you aren't part of your kids lives, and activities, you get what comes easy. Trouble and more trouble.
As per usual, sensationalization comes by way of the press pointing blame at the service, which had been abused to rouse up the trouble in the first place...how about taking responsibility for your kids?
ummm...but then the parents would have no-one to sue for financial gain, in their ignorance. That's right.
Complacency and laziness are taking over our society. How about limiting the kids computer time, and what they can do with it?
Sounds like the outrage of "Cell phones" and Tamagachi's(sp?) all over again.
Don't be so sure. The new kids in University (some work part time for me) have a focus on Linux and Apple. Side-stepping MS. Microsoft products aren't part of their vocabulary anymore.
Todays business management(/managers)are the reason for Microsofts infiltration and persistance in todays businesses. The new kids are heading up a different direction, focussing on OPEN SOURCE and also viable ALTERNATIVES to Windoze.
If the technological society doesn't notice it, start looking harder. It all goes along with the MP3 generation who don't believe that downloading music is considered theft.
"If" Microsoft becomes the minority, the BBC would simply release their extensions and players for the next wave platform; just watch. It is foolish for any business to make devoted alliances in the technology bubble. It isn't the 90's anymore.
The dot-com bust should have dirtied enough pairs of shorts to last a lifetime.
Heck the BBC have toyed with OGG encoding as well. But I guess they want heterogenus video solution which mates up with the audio solution.
However pressure may be placed on the BBC to make it difficult, or downright impossible for Non-MS software/OS users to partake in their media experience. Hasn't history repeated itself enough for our generation to catch on to this?
Microsoft has a bad habit of making other companies proprietary to suit their own portfolio.
This may be all that MS has to grasp on to, once they are out of the PC O.S. business.....except for all those vague U.S. patents.
Becoming their new business model for the next decade or 3.
Business is going to be frustrated with the new offering, as it isn't a carryover from previous Windoze versions. It has the big screaming learning curve, a plothora of new annoyances, and likely cannot merge into existing networks out of the box. Just great.
Symantec and McAfee have a point. They are the founders of the A/V industry, let them take care of the nasty virii. Instead MS is pushing their weight around in hopes that it will make them shine somehow later on.
The I.T. support guys-n-gals around the world are going to lose their minds, and the users (and upper management) are going to cry foul that they can't figure it out, and can't screw with it.
I'm an I.T. guy with 450 Win2K users. I don't relish this next version. Our systems integration with business systems such as Oracle Financials and other fudged packages are going to get messy; if not down right impossible to migrate.
Microsoft proves time and time again that they DABBLE in everything, but MASTER NOTHING. Buying up small companies and stuffing the new products into Redmonds portfolio doesn't mean that MS can carry it forward.
Not to meantion that Vista will be the last Windows OS produced by Redmond. Vista is going lack lustre for the billions of daily windows users when the product discs do ship. Early integration tests in Networking environments aren't very pleasing so far. I don't want more ignorant Windoze wizards.
Windows products since the inception demonstrates that MS hasn't stablized or improved the product(since Winnt 3.5.1). It is the same old stuff... Crashing OS, and ever increasing scads of semi-useless wizards. Wait!, credit for the new dumptruck load of familiar Eye-Candy(hey, dejavu) added into each new release to give the feeling of "freshness".
Sad that the PR department in Redmond have only the visuals to brag about. And that isn't very impressive. KDE, GNOME, and OSX shine together in this spotlight already.
If you think that your parents will get turned off of PC's running Linux, but just wait till Vista hits the shelves preloaded onto their new system.
PC's will exist a few years from now only because of Google and Linux. Ubutu, Apple, BSD, Novell (SUSE) are going to end up wiping the P.C. floor in the near future. Just watch....there are likely more internal MS deserters yet to come before the end of the year.
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Microsofts largest client base are HOME users. The trend will
continue as most new PC's are sold in retail outlets to home
users and students.
Why do you think MS has been so loud in the media to deter people
and companies from buying XP? Simply because IT Departments
aren't jumping onto the VISTA (and soon, Win7) bandwagon. MS
is trying to add the business world to their list of USERS for
Windows Vista and Win7. Most fish aren't biting.
As is the case at my work place of 18,000 PC's.
MAC's have really infiltrated my campus since Vista was first
released. A sign of the times, if ever one was looking for it.
Maybe they can focus on selling these products:
- DVD/CD scratching technology (oops Xbox 360 already in stores)
- Ballmers famous flying office chairs
- Ford cars with their MP3 voice activation software playing Songs by Tiffany with upgrades to control the wiper blades at the same time.?
- And maybe a Pre-order program for the upcoming Vista patches soon to be released under the name of Windows7.
Face it, everybody already owns a copy of Office. Their only money making venture that is still afloat.
Maybe they should open dollar stores to unload the rest of their :-)
technology which didn't HIT with the kids today.
It should "in reality" trigger Microsoft to add a new line
to their business plan:
FIX the OVERFLOW BUGS in all of their crappy software!
Apparently it only costs $250,000 to get publicity like this.
Extremely intelligent people often display signs of being
hard working, over exaggerated, and psychopathic. He is no
exception.
It not be much of a stretch to portray the role of a great
philanthropist; flaunting someone else's money of course.
Maybe he wants to ensure that CABO SAN LUCAS is always
malaria-free so that he won't contract it in his new palace,
next the sea of cortez.
.
These big companies (and their CEO's) have a responsibility,
and it is not with their employees. Don't bring any emotions
into the issue, there is only one responsibility - to keep the
SHAREHOLDERS happy.
They will (and they do) step on their fellow Americans to make
money. Money for themselves and also for SHAREHOLDERS. At
that point, their part in the capitalistic system is performing as
expected/intended.
You have no "Right As an American" anymore, you are their
consumer or your are their employee. You are nobody to the CEO's.
These big CEO's (ie: Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Bill
Gates [during his reign]) are doing what the SHAREHOLDER
has instructed them to do with their invested money. Make me
more for what I lent to you. And they do just that most of the
time.
Ultimately, the consumer(You) will pay for everything in the end
and your way of life will be drained of its resources (money).
We've pretty much hit that point now, which is why people like
Michael DELL and Bill GATES have gobbed up as much of their
money as they could, and have escaped to their big guarded
houses in Cabo San Lucas MEXICO... along with all your money.
Next time you are in Mexico, take the local tours and you will
find out who no has a better financial plan than you. And the
matter of H1-B work permits will not even factor into it.
Buying new computers, let alone new versions of Windows won't
be high on the list of necessity for the next 3 or 4 years. Ballmers
salesmanship is going to end up being just a lot of hot air
aimed at soon to be unemployed Windows Developers.
And folks keep saying that Windows7 will happily run on existing
Vista-Capable hardware. Until I get my grubby hands on it,
I will not rely on my internet peeps or other sources. "Once
bitten, twice shy my friends."
I look forward to a similar WIN7-CAPABLE class action suit with
this new OS.
Where's my pinch of salt?
The compelling reasons to upgrade to Windows7 just aren't
there. WinNT, 2K, XP could connect to the NET, send email,
compose letters, and be productive.
Why buy Win7? for the sake of a new TaskBar! Sorry, Ballmers
sales job isn't that good.
Most of the companies who buy tons of PC's in bulk are the ...Notice that a lot of these companies
Fortune 500
may no longer exist following the traumatic blood letting of
the banking and housing industry. That puts the onus back
on the broke home user.
Windows7 will need new hardware to run as it was intended.
Although PC vendors will short sell "Win7 CAPABLE" hardware
as they did the last time around.
Is Windows7 worth the expense? Soon enough the beta
versions on the NET will tell all.
Get past the "I NEED THAT" ora surrounding Win7 hype. You
truthfully can't afford it, or even justify it.
Just throwing another 2 cents worth onto the pile.
-
When Windows7 is thrust upon the end users as the default OS
for new PC's, it will most likely not yet be supported by the
tens of thousands of 3rd party apps.
Vista was pushed out and the only real apps on the market were
a wet version of MS OFFICE2007.
I don't look forward to the new PC's arriving to my office, with
a new unsopported OS. Going on a hunch that Microsoft will
take the opportunity to remove more legacy support, I can
assume that more of our proprietary 3rd party apps will not
work on Windows7,
Our building automation (environmental controls software), our
gas pump management software, or hydro metering subsystem,
and dozens of other apps are doomed on Windows7 as they
currently are with Windows Vista.
Read between the lines that we are still on WinXP and Win2000pro.
MACs are appearing in the office, and people really like them.
XP runs well on them to boot (via vmware fusion).
Microsofts big challenge is going to be convincing the worlds
3rd party developers to embrace this new OS. And to do it
without threats or forcefully pulling support agreements, etc.
MS's typical business practices are their legacy.
Windows7 is akin to GM tossing a hybrid engine into a CHEVY Tahoe. It is still Vista under the hood, with a new skin on the
outside.
Good luck.
And please remember to extend the life of XP for another 5 years. Thanks.
Simply, Don't do it.
Your own posting suggests you want cloud computing to capitalize
on someone elses storage services.
Invest in your own servers, register your own domain name,
and build a quality service of your own that your potential
clients can trust.
The burst of the DOT COM economy already taught the world
that (folks like you whom are) re-marketing other peoples
services was (and still is) a really bad idea.
If your gutt has a bad feeling, just don't do it.
Besides, if it appears that you are succeeding, someone like
Microsoft or Google will ram you head first into the virtual
ground, and it will be all over... quickly.
The internet does not need yet another middle man.
I think what they miss about FOSS is that at least some of the developers in the community do it as a hobby or for practice (or even resume padding so they can get a paid development job); compensation isn't that much of a sticking point for them. Some people perform tasks out of the goodness of their hearts,
such as 'cut the neighbors lawn', or 'entertaining others with
their guitars on the front porch'.
Others get paid to 'cut the lawn', and 'play music for the public'.
This is an example of "donation" versus "capitalism", likened to
Open Source(free) versus Closed Source(overpriced) providers.
The paid person is not happy to compete with the free person,
but that is the freedom of living in North America.
Sometimes the free service is better than the paid service, and
the free service becomes more popular. This is the point that
Microsoft missed out on entirely. Or they cannot convey that
in their FUD campaign.
It is that time for the the paid person(MS) to invest in a different
kind of business - like Media Players, or Online Advertising!
or, maybe not.
'don't forget to duck'
15 people in a carpeted room doesn't really constitute a conference.
;-) with the obligitory projector, and booze.
Looks cheap and cheezy
What can that small number of people actually accomplish for
and OS that has hundreds of millions of installations around
the world.
Appears to be just an excuse for a hand selected crew to get
drunk, and then post blurry photos of their quieter moments.
Was there any "chair throwing" going on?
Simply have microsoft make its slaves "code in" proper error checking for their routines in the first place... Then they won't have to issue hundreds of patches every week, and the users PC's just might be a little more secure.
So far VISTA is not giving a lot of positive returns, much like MS stock over the past 2 decades.
Your current apps are not likely to run (correctly, or at all) on Vista, so you need new applications..
which don't yet exist. It would therefore be foolish of industry to install Vista when there are no
supported apps, with exception of the only office product which is somewhat VISTA ready (MS OFFICE 2007)
But that's a whole different argument.
We've had 35% of the students are my university, report to class carrying MACBOOKS. The rest came with
VISTA laden laptops. Vista is not supported on our campus, so guess who is happy?
Apparently you aren't listening hard enough.....they are a security company now (cough, gag)
In North America, suing individuals has become an actual business
model and accepted practice. As much as the kids that believe it
it is acceptable to download music tracks without paying for them.
Touche'.... I think we are at loggerheads.
After the rest of the governments in the free world get on the bandwagon
to bann the use of Microsoft Products (namely Office2007 and Vista ) then
it won't matter much what Microsoft says.
Microsoft isn't telling us(openly) that their own XML document standard
is incomplete and somewhat busted, which it is. Time for Ballmer to swallow
the red pill. Quit peddling the snake oil containing features that aren't
incorporated(yet) in their own products.
Just my $0.02 worth. and current experience.
Everyone missed the point entirely. Or maybe the real
intentions for releasing a version of SAFARI for Windows
wasn't disceminated fully to the crowd.
I had a meeting with Apple Canada yesterday and they
reinforced that the release of SAFARI for Windows was
simply the next step prior to the release of the APPLE
IPHONE.
The IPHONE will be open for 3rd party applications, which
will be interfaced through WEB2.0 standards via the
SAFARI browser.
If you think Apple released their browser to compete with
IE, or Opera, or Firefox, then you are still in the dark; swinging
at ghosts.
Get the whole story first before starting another browser holy
war on an open forum.
Microsoft understands the value of a buck. And they don't get
rich by paying local Whiz kids the big bucks for their talent.
They would rather take advantage of the immigration jet stream,
pay less to those who appreciate the opportunity of a job in
a flourishing country(other than their own), and Microsoft
gets the programming tasks done in the end, for cheap.
If you are a holder of Microsoft Stock, you are partially to
blame also. You can help by guiding MS to hire local talent from
your own country, but that it not in your best interest either...
is it?
The main reason why the HD-DVD and BLURAY selection at
;-)
BestBuy and FutureShop is so meagre.
The general public is not yet buying en-mass. While the
new HD players still support the older DVD format, people
won't be biting into the new(more expensive) discs just
for a few extra scan lines.
Most HD TV's do upscaling/upconverting fairly well. So keep
buying those PREVIOUSLY VIEWED DVD's from BLOCKBUSTER. The
price is right!
They have become a Venture Capital investor, buying up other peoples
technologies, and then enforcing their non-standards onto the
computing world.
If it weren't for their portfolio of IP (intellectual property)
patents, they wouldn't be relavent anymore in todays computing
world.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Why would they bother?
Java already exists as a higher level interpreter to the main O.S.
There are many business class software packages which run purely
on Java (OpenOffice, etc). If MS can't create their apps to run
on Java, then their limitation has been identified.
Remember that Microsoft is a company with a portfolio of acquisitions,
and not innovations.
I would suggest that _anyone_ who doesn't have the grasp
;-)
on technology shouldn't be introducing it into the home;
especially to their kids.
Ignorance isn't an excuse, and temptation by the kids shouldn't
be tempted after the parents unknowingly open the door
to online scum and IM predators.
What ever happened to playing hockey in the driveway,
and playdough and colouring books?
Just because there is technology, doesn't mean it is
the best avenue. Especially when the hydro goes out.
Many parents (nowadays) give their kids money to get
them out of the house and to go build their street
racers(ricers) and buy cigarettes because it is easier
at the end of a long work day to not have to deal with
a teen who is confrontational. I saw that happen with
my nephews, and I won't let that happen to me own
two boys.
If you aren't part of your kids lives, and activities,
you get what comes easy. Trouble and more trouble.
As per usual, sensationalization comes by way of the press
pointing blame at the service, which had been abused to
rouse up the trouble in the first place...how about taking
responsibility for your kids?
ummm...but then the parents would have no-one to sue for
financial gain, in their ignorance. That's right.
Complacency and laziness are taking over our society. How
about limiting the kids computer time, and what they can
do with it?
Sounds like the outrage of "Cell phones" and Tamagachi's(sp?)
all over again.
-
Don't be so sure. The new kids in University (some work part
time for me) have a focus on Linux and Apple. Side-stepping
MS. Microsoft products aren't part of their vocabulary anymore.
Todays business management(/managers)are the reason for Microsofts
infiltration and persistance in todays businesses. The new kids are
heading up a different direction, focussing on OPEN SOURCE and also
viable ALTERNATIVES to Windoze.
If the technological society doesn't notice it, start looking harder.
It all goes along with the MP3 generation who don't believe that
downloading music is considered theft.
"If" Microsoft becomes the minority, the BBC would simply release their
extensions and players for the next wave platform; just watch.
It is foolish for any business to make devoted alliances in the
technology bubble. It isn't the 90's anymore.
The dot-com bust should have dirtied enough pairs of shorts
to last a lifetime.
Heck the BBC have toyed with OGG encoding as well. But I guess
they want heterogenus video solution which mates up with the
audio solution.
wait and see....
However pressure may be placed on the BBC to make it difficult,
....except for all those vague U.S. patents.
or downright impossible for Non-MS software/OS users to partake
in their media experience. Hasn't history repeated itself enough
for our generation to catch on to this?
Microsoft has a bad habit of making other companies proprietary
to suit their own portfolio.
This may be all that MS has to grasp on to, once they are out of the
PC O.S. business.
Becoming their new business model for the next decade or 3.
Business is going to be frustrated with the new offering, as
...there are likely more internal MS deserters yet to come
it isn't a carryover from previous Windoze versions. It
has the big screaming learning curve, a plothora of new
annoyances, and likely cannot merge into existing networks
out of the box. Just great.
Symantec and McAfee have a point. They are the founders of
the A/V industry, let them take care of the nasty virii.
Instead MS is pushing their weight around in hopes that it
will make them shine somehow later on.
The I.T. support guys-n-gals around the world are going to lose
their minds, and the users (and upper management) are going to cry foul
that they can't figure it out, and can't screw with it.
I'm an I.T. guy with 450 Win2K users. I don't relish this next version.
Our systems integration with business systems such as Oracle
Financials and other fudged packages are going to get
messy; if not down right impossible to migrate.
Microsoft proves time and time again that they DABBLE in
everything, but MASTER NOTHING. Buying up small companies
and stuffing the new products into Redmonds portfolio doesn't
mean that MS can carry it forward.
Not to meantion that Vista will be the last Windows OS produced
by Redmond. Vista is going lack lustre for the billions of daily
windows users when the product discs do ship. Early integration
tests in Networking environments aren't very pleasing so far.
I don't want more ignorant Windoze wizards.
Windows products since the inception demonstrates that MS
hasn't stablized or improved the product(since Winnt 3.5.1).
It is the same old stuff... Crashing OS, and ever increasing scads
of semi-useless wizards. Wait!, credit for the new dumptruck load
of familiar Eye-Candy(hey, dejavu) added into each new release to give
the feeling of "freshness".
Sad that the PR department in Redmond have only the visuals
to brag about. And that isn't very impressive. KDE, GNOME,
and OSX shine together in this spotlight already.
If you think that your parents will get turned off of PC's
running Linux, but just wait till Vista hits the shelves
preloaded onto their new system.
PC's will exist a few years from now only because of Google
and Linux. Ubutu, Apple, BSD, Novell (SUSE) are going to end up
wiping the P.C. floor in the near future. Just watch.
before the end of the year.