I have been wondering that since earlier this week, when an article on slashdot asked if anyone really thought that Mr. Ballmer would ever really say that any Microsoft Launch was sub-par.
The article has a point; one that should not be lost on anyone who thinks. Since we are very early on in the life [...]
The problems of the world continue no matter the hopes and best wishes of any business or corporate entity. That is the reason we have so many reports of the early sales of Windows 7 being up, by as much as 234%, according to some reports, yet other reports state that PC sales are down. [...]
One of my longstanding problems with Microsoft has been that they seem to want to be all things to all people, instead of limiting themselves to possibly 3 things, and really excelling at them (dominate and excel are not synonymous, look it up).
When you have so many balls to juggle, each ball is not in [...]
Another story that could be about sports, but it isn’t. Besides, who would it be? In the 1970s, the Cincinnati Reds baseball team was referred to as the Big Red Machine, but I don’t think there has ever been any team, with blue colors, that was called by that name.
No, the machine I refer to [...]
At least that is the way it seems when the Microsoft CEO opens his mouth. At a time when things are going well for Microsoft – pre-orders of Windows 7 are running briskly, the press is, for the most part, giving big congratulations to the product, and the company has just received news that not [...]
It seems that Microsoft is really pushing everyone to move to Windows 7 these days. Businesses have already gotten the ‘give Windows XP the heave-ho’ speech. The company is trying to entice, cajole, persuade, or bully, anyone and everyone.
Now they are giving the college student a reason to switch, or so they believe. With an [...]
You really have to hand it to some people, they lead charmed lives. They come in with no experience in a specific field, get a sweetheart deal to get the job, including a huge stock package, do a guided bend and take for Microsoft, and emerge to give interviews about how making the right decisions [...]
I just finished reading an article on NetworkWorld, written by someone who states that he uses both OS X and Windows, and that Apple suddenly no longer can kick Windows around based of five reasons he cites in the article.
I don’t use OS X on a daily basis, but I do use Windows daily, and [...]
To make matters worse, it’s cheap. Reported in ComputerWorld, Windows 7 copies are showing up in shops, ready to be put on user’s hard drives, with activation already bypassed.
A stall owner at one of the multistory PC markets in Beijing sold a copy of the program for 40 yuan (US$5.86) on Monday. It was not [...]
While watching Charlie Rose last night, at least one third of the show was dedicated to trying to figure out, with the help of a couple of industry insiders, from Tech Crunch, and Wired, and a reporter from the Wall Street Journal, exactly what the head honcho at Microsoft was thinking when coming up with [...]
I say that, as someone who is familiar with the man in no sense other than his outward persona. In the past few years, when Bill Gates was stepping away from Microsoft, he allowed Ballmer to come to the fore, which I believe is the mistake of the decade (apologies to those who voted for [...]
Note that I did not say buy. No, I am wondering if you would be brought into a Microsoft store by curiosity, or perhaps the ability to examine a piece of Microsoft hardware close up. No matter how egregious the mistakes made with software, I believe that Microsoft has consistently made the best mice in [...]
Over at Download Squad, we learned that the game Tetris is 25 years old today. Seems like it hasn’t been that long, but I bow to the demands of the calendar.
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While there, we see that baseball manager, and Twit(terer) Tony LaRussa seems to have brought a lawsuit against Twitter because someone was pretending to be [...]
Strangely, most of the major sites haven’t commented on the fact that a certain bald-headed man is not in his usual stomping grounds, but instead in Silicon Valley, the home of a certain search provider.
Yes, Mr. Ballmer has gone-a-visiting. Imagine that. I thought it might have been a response to the layoffs at Microsoft, and [...]
It may take a while. But the release of Windows 7, so early and so often, has shown a lot of people that otherwise would not see, that there just might be something for them, in the next Windows operating system.
Since Vista is a bust, and Microsoft has stated that they don’t intend to repair [...]
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