What other CEO has squandered more advantages and opportunities...?
How does Ballmer hold on to his job?
Posted on 05/06/2013 11:41:57 PM PDT by zeestephen
Microsoft is preparing to reverse course over key elements of its Windows 8 operating system, marking one of the most prominent admissions of failure for a new mass-market consumer product since Coca-Cola's New Coke fiasco nearly 30 years ago. "Key aspects" of how the software is used will be changed.
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What other CEO has squandered more advantages and opportunities...?
How does Ballmer hold on to his job?
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You’re right. I have one and absolutely hate it. The screen fails to recognize my touches and my computer sounds like a jet engine about to take off. After about 6 months of it I went out and bought another desk top.
As far as the greasy finger prints, right on again. How many people really want to watch a HD movie through all of that?
Microsoft’s whimsical “Bob” = failure
Bill Murray’s whimsical “Bob” = success
Microsoft’s whimsical Metro on desktop = failure
Bill Murray’s next whimsical movie = success?
Microsoft should not try to be whimsical
Kinda like Rove-E-GOP-RNC aye?
In their politics and product culture, Microsoft ='s the GOP, Apple ='s the DNC, and Ubuntu / Unix ='s the Tea Party Conservatives...
Think about it :-)...
Is it my imagination or generally every other microsoft new big thing an absolute disaster.
Let me try to recall, from personal experience
Win 3.1 - good for its time
Windows 95 - good improvement
Windows 98 - meh
(Windows NT - ok, but not really for home use)
Windows ME - disaster
Windows - XP, great for many years
Windows Vista - Disaster
Windows 7 - Good
Windows 8 - Disaster
The one thing I never understand is why software needs to be updated for each new version. I have sophisticated software that I wrote for Windows 3.1 that many of our plants nation wide still use. It works perfectly fine on windows 7, and even prints very pretty color graphs and charts on modern printers. The only difference in its performance between then and now is it can crunch multiple years of data infinitely faster than it did in 1992 (but thats because of the machine speed).
They don't understand that companies can't afford slow downs every time MS revamps Windows' appearance on a whim.
What is wrong with making it look essentially like the old version and letting people activate new features when and if they want to? Just have a "new features" button to tempt them to see if they want to make changes.
If they force unwanted changes, someone else will sell or give away a way to undo them.
BTW, brilliant comparison.:)
Although 2003 and XP is a fine platform in itself W7, S2008R2 and Exchange 2013 in 64-bit far exceed it in LAN/WAN throughput, features, reliability, security and stability.
If legacy 16 and 32-bit apps are required which do not work in W7 they can still be used via a hosted 32-bit legacy OS running in Oracle’s Virtual Box (free for personal use) or similar virtualization software.
On my home box I VM into OSs for their apps and minimize the VM fullscreen window to access my W7 64-bit apps. I typically have stuff going on in 2 or more OSs at once. And the VM OSs usually run much faster than the host due to much of the OS being virtualized in memory. My XP VM boots to desktop in 12 seconds.
What about Win 2000? But you’re right about every-other OS. What they do is upgrade the kernal, platform, code, APIs, etc. in the first release then continue development into the second release as the final version. Ergo, 95 to 98; 2000 to XP; Vista to W7; W8 to ? Just read the kernal versions between releases.
W8 actually has some really good computing features and benefits so we’ll see how they fix it. Right now it just has a horrible and poorly thought out desktop. They were trying to steal-back consumers from tablets to save the workstation. The desktop may be dead however. The computing power in tablets is just getting too strong. Who wouldn’t want to take their entire system with them wherever they go with their backup in the cloud? Irresistable and inevitable IMO.
II did an update two months ago, I can no longer use IE, which I liked, I went to their webpage and it said the fix will remove ALL my stored data.
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Or just have as an OS installation option, that it asks if you want it to be in touch-screen mode, or Win7 mode.
My wife must be doing something wrong, she has had win8 for a couple of months now and uses it without ever touching the screen. However, she doesn’t use it a lot.
Also, we had a very hard time connecting with wi fi. We bought an adapter and for a while we kept losing connectivity and the wireless connection was only about 20 feet away.
We’re running XP SP3, Exchange 2003, Office 2003, and lots of server 2003.
It works. It is stable.
Windows 7 has some unpleasant kinks, especially with VNC and running on a Cisco wireless network.
Support ends April 2014, and it will cost us more than $500k to migrate. This takes IT Staff away from other projects.
More than a half million dollars for no ROI. I’ll admit that I like Server 2008 R2.........
Even CEO’s get caught up in fads and make stupid decisions. Tablets and smartphones are great - as tablets and smartphones. They are not desktop PC’s. Using them to type long documents is impossible. Using them for program development would be insane. The PC needs a full screen desktop type interface and a full keyboard.
LLS
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