Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft Makes Mundie Responsible for Unlimited Potential
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| As part of those changes, current UPG co-leader Will Poole will leave
>| Microsoft in the September-October time frame, the company confirmed on
>| Tuesday. Former unified communications executive Anoop Gupta will replace
>| Poole as corporate vice president of UPG.
> `----
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144676/microsoft_makes_mundie_responsible_for_unlimited_potential.html
>
> Everyone seems to be leaving except for Ballmer, who only speaks of future
> retirement as his company approaches debt. He drove it to the ground by
> essentially being a gangster that buys software companies and buries/bullies
> them, then pays fines.
>
> Windows is a dead end (can't be developed properly) and the world's software
> moves to the Web (that's why Microsoft needs Yahoo at the cost of a
> $20,000,000,000+ loan).
>
> Can /anyone/ blame the trolls here for going out of control?
>
The reasons behind the corruption of ISO, the BSI, the British Library and
the BBC become ever more clear. Microsoft knows that it never got close
to winning the embedded war, and yet that was the really important fish.
All it needed was good global coverage for 2G/2.5G/3G/Wifi/WiMax and
the desktop was yesterday's technology.
Well, we're already there - mobility is a reality, and most people in
the developed world have at least one mobile device, and the developing
world is moving quickly in the same direction.
OLPC is a masterstroke with its automatic meshing - this providing a
method for even the least technologically developed regions to benefit
from wireless mobility.
Microsoft were hoping to get the content into Microsoft-only formats,
with the Xbox360 for games, Zune for music, BBC for Radio & TV, British
Library for books and printed matter, and then ice the cake with OOXML
to keep government documentation in a Microsoft-only format. Vista was
supposed to keep all media on a PC stored using "DRM".
Well, it looks like it's all failing miserably. The Microsoft BBC
iPlayer was and remains a disaster, whereas at least the flash version is
generally available and is far far more popular. The British Library has
been "found out", and will hopefully find ways of moving to non-monopoly,
non-proprietary formats. Zune was a total failure, Xbox360 is selling
so badly that some Aussie retailers want to drop it entirely. Vista is
the most appalling mess, with Vista machines now discounted by up to 50%
on Amazon - nobody wants them.
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