What a bunch of morons and whiners! Microsoft was and is a great company that change the way everybody work with computers. All Google have created is web advertisement tax. It provides nothing you did not had before, but you still crawl to their web site to find the page you were watching yesterday, because you was too lazy to bookmark it. Google already is reading your searches, your emails, and your files. One day they will own you and they will tax you all like they are taxing businesses.
Microsoft is Dead
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#382Old news...
2005? Man you HAVE been under a rock haven't you? Hacker? Sigh...ok here's some coaching for you the next time you want to front.
1. - "Hackers" don't call themselves hackers, poseurs call themselves hackers. (and anyone reading this saying "but I'M a hacker.." guess wha? YOU r a poseur.)
2. - Web 2.0 is just another BUZZWORD. Like AJAX, LAMP and (gasp) blog. Duh, it's the web dummy, it's made of ALL KINDS OF TECHNOLOGIES.
3. - PHOTOSHOP over the web? Not for a LONG time buddy, IF EVER. Oh wait, lemme guess: "The network IS the computer" right? When will you hypemasters get the drift that not EVERY app is right for a BROWSER? Let me put this nice and easy for you, SOME APPS WILL GO TOTALLY WEB, MOST WON'T. You can't whittle every peg to fit your web-hole...you webhole.
4. - Google became BMOC BEFORE their IPO. If you were any good as a venture capitalist you would have seen that.
5. - SURPRISED to see lamers running windows? What, did you think they would be running Linux (sorry, GNU)? Not everyone wants to spend the $$ for a Mac. (Disclaimer: I do.)
C'mon man, smarten up. Oh, and yeah, IBM lost it's monopoly WAAAAY B4 2005. I think it was called OS2...maybe they should have hired a rock band...anyone have one of those Win95 discs with Weezer on it?
You were right about one thing. This is OLD NEWS. Dumbass.
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#383PG: I already know what the reaction to this essay will be. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that I should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in our insular little "Web 2.0" bubble. The other half, the younger half, will complain that this is old news.
You may know a lot about computers, but your math sucks. Try factoring in the third half of your readers [those of us who read your words and think, "forget the Lone Ranger. When I grow up I'm marrying THIS guy"]!
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#384Microsoft is dead ? Haa
Think XBOX
Think SQL SERVER
Think Longhorn server
Think IPTV
Now which one of this is not there and wait til play talbe comes into market..
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#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, this is obviously the viewpoint of someone who is not at all familiar with gift societies, someone who seems to me to be desperately clinging to a dogmatism in order to convince him- or herself that his or her life has been lived in a moral manner. The truth is that it's not all black and white. Socialist != Evil, and Capitalist != Good. You speak of corporations bringing happiness to people, but I would like to…
"In summary, my problem is not with capitalism, and I am not a socialist. I merely fear that the inevitable end of capitalism is the type of corporate society that has been steadily evolving in the U.S. and elsewhere, one in which paper and numbers are more important than people." You contradict yourself. Obviously you have a problem with capitalism because you beleive people should be forced at gunpoint to live the…
I'd like to say something that u don't have to answer. In fact, I wouldn't like u to answer for it's pointless to argue with you, as far as I can see. But I'm just wondering: Are you as afraid of communism as to act as someone like Hitler would do? Your way of refusing to friendly discuss arguments is as intolerant and shortsighted as Hitler or Stalin would do. So, as you call yourself an anti-communist you just let me one person to compare you with...
I'm not a philosopher nor a politician but the way you talk answers one of the unsolved questions I asked myself while reading some historical books: are there still people like that?????
And there you are.....
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#386LMAO. You haven't seen WPF, have you? Or, do you really know how things are inside Microsoft now?
And, btw, I'm pretty much in the younger half of the population(16), and I'd much rather work at Microsoft which allows you to blog and conducts events in countries outside the US than at Google where you aren't even allowed to say what the dominant color in the data center is...
P.S. You rock, but this one made me LMAO. Tell me it was a late April Fool's joke.
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#387This is developing news, and there are a few interesting consequences:
1. Microsoft's software is unmaintainable, without throwing titanic amounts of money at it. This means that if Microsoft experiences declining sales on its basic products (Windows, Office), the products themselves will disappear. In a decade, Wine may be all that is left of Windows.
2. The price of Windows is increasing, as the price of computers is plummeting. A $2000 computer with a $100 operating system works. A $500 computer with a $200 operating system doesn't. Windows should cost no more than $20 today. Microsoft's model is clearly unsustainable.
3. The biggest benefit from Microsoft alternatives isn't replacing Windows, the benefit is being able to do things that were never possible with Windows. Linux bootable CD/flash is a wonderful approach for single-purpose devices, which is what most of the world wants almost all computers to be.
I've been programming computers for 40 years now, and this is about the third major transition I've been through. It is by far the most fun.
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#388Re: your comment about Steve Jobs, I don't think Apple would be the company it is today unless Steve was pushed out. I think he learned a lot in the wilderness and came back a prodigal son with something to prove. As such he was a lot more motivated and had more backing than he would have had if he hadn't left.
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#389I somehow don't think that Microsoft are simply going to go away. When 95% of the worlds people use a Microsoft OS including big business with great application support and the ability to buy cheap hardware (which Apple cannot replicate) Microsoft will be dominant. And now they have a fairly decent OS which is comparable to OSX, it just isn't compelling enough to switch any more. At least for the people I know....
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#390Now that the storm of comments died down a bit, I'd like to say that I agree with you. I've been attending the yearly Fosdem in Brussels, Belgium (an open source convention) for several years now, and this year a lot of the people working on open source had Macs. As a matter of fact the Macs were everywhere. Like you said, the geeks already switched to Mac. Many people have a PC, because someone they know advised them to get one, and because they knew that they could get help from the geek they knew if they got in trouble, but the geeks switched to Mac now. Combine this with the fact that those same geeks are telling people to stay away from Vista, and it doesn't look good for Microsoft. Just my two cents from Belgium.