Pfft. Drove the bus off a cliff, into the ocean, through the fires of hell and into my living room. Fortunately, you can now install a few different Linux distros on their UEFI @#$% loader.
Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
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Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#22This looks more like an angry letter with childish points made. > i hate this I hate that.
It doesn't help that the writing in the article is pretty bad.
I don't think M$ will go under (think: Fortune 500 + gov't), but as a consumer I don't want any of their new stuff.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#23As a developer I hate that MS does not upgrade IE browser when they issue service releases. Ex: W7SP1 did not upgrade to latest IE.
This causes me to have to develop 2 versions of my product, increasing expense. Shame on you MS.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#24> Last fall SemiAccurate was one of the few voices criticizing Windows 8 o_0
The anti-Microsoft articles on SA are pretty over the top. There's a grain -- often more than a grain -- of truth, but to lump MS in the same category as Sun, or one of any number of failed large companies, is premature.
They've got trouble. I don't know if getting rid of Ballmer would solve anything (it might be necessary to start a long road to reform). I can trace back a /lot/ of MS's bad decisions to the way they review and compensate people, and Ballmer seems dead set on keeping the current review system intact, which is a shame.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#25They make more off of Android devices than Google does. Maybe their strategy is to build such sucky products that more people pick up Android devices.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#26Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
As an owner of a MBP two Dell Laptops and a custom Win8 PC, I feel bad for ya son, I got 99 problems, but DSL ain't one.
I hard boot Win8 in That MBP on the other hand? Since it doesn't get constant love, I hate having to pull it out b/c it's gonna whine and it's not got the SSD, so it's gonna pant... therefore, Apple sucks all balls. Anecdotally, we're tied now. FFS people - nobody gives a shit when you're a re-newb how horrible you are at your re-acquired platform.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#27This looks more like an angry letter with childish points made. > i hate this I hate that.
It doesn't help that the writing in the article is pretty bad. I don't think M$ will go under (think: Fortune 500 + gov't), but as a consumer I don't want any of their new stuff.
> as a consumer I don't want any of their new stuff.
I think we could've guessed that from your use of "M$" in the prior clause.
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#28Microsoft is far from failed. They might not be doing great with tablets and phones, but they have a few other businesses that happen to make billions upon billions each quarter. The PC is declining, it isn't dead. And it won't be any time soon.
You are absolutely correct. In the same way, in 2012, half of IBM's profits were from the sales and servicing of mainframes[1]. IBM is not dead, it's just irrelevant. And that's where Microsoft is apparently unstoppably heading.
[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/09/ibms-mainf...
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#29They make more off of Android devices than Google does. Maybe their strategy is to build such sucky products that more people pick up Android devices.
They make more off of Android devices than Google does.
People keep saying this, though I suppose someone at Microsoft must be embezzling huge sums of money because this purported big Android windfall still fails to appear on any Microsoft quarterly report. Dear NSA: the FBI or someone should look into this.
This myth is founded on Microsoft continually getting agreements with manufacturers to give them patent immunity, never with actual dollar amounts announced. Instead the press just starts inventing numbers, becoming ever more zealous with the incredible sums Microsoft is making off of Android (again, apparently completely off the books...).
Given the actual reality that these dollar amounts don't exist, the next time you hear about Microsoft making enormous sums from some sucker company, realize that they probably aren't making anything, but instead are getting various cooperation agreements, where the payments are more likely fictional movements of non-money and continued involvement in Microsoft's efforts (e.g pretty please make a Windows Phone device)
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#30tl;dr - it's just one long bash fest combined with patting themselves on the back for earlier bashing that they incorrectly claim was unique insight.
A terribly non-constructive article. It really is just one long angry bash fest. I had to stop reading at "Windows 8 is just awful" - I've been using it for some time, and it's a perfectly fine operating system: fast, secure, stable, and requires no more resources than Vista did six years prior. I haven't had a single problem with it; the sole thing I dislike about it - the start screen - I practically disable by booting directly to the desktop and blocking charms for it.