On Aug 2, 5:50 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Open the Windows; the Stench is Unbearable
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | If some of this technology were an automobile, it would be banned from the
> | road. It may not have rolled over and killed anyone, but it certainly has
> | rolled over and died. It should come with a warning label, “Unsafe at any
> | speed.” Look at how quickly and frequently global commerce gets disrupted
> | using it.
> `----
Microsoft's success with Windows is entirely dependent on Ignorance.
Keep in mind that Unix was available back when Microsoft was releasing
MS-DOS. IBM may have even thought that they were getting Microsoft
Xenix instead of MS-DOS. Microsoft had been offering Xenix for 68000
based Tandy computers.
Microsoft used Vaporware announcements of Windows, from Windows 1.0 to
Windows 3.0 to try and prevent a mass migration to competitor systems
like Mac OS, DR-DOS/GEM, or OS/2 - Warp. They successfully checked PC
industry progress from almost 1984 to 1991 and when they delivered
Windows 3.1 in 1991, it was still inferior to the competitor products
in terms of reliability, security, and stability. Vaporware
announcements of NT were designed to stop the spread of SCO Unix,
Solaris, and UnixWare as well as a newcomer called Linux from 1991 to
1995. Microsoft promised a "better Unix than Unix", but didn't even
come close to the core functionality until Windows XP almost 10 years
later, which was almost as good as SunOS 4.0 which had been declared
Obsolete in 1991.
In fact, when Windows NT 4.0 was released, it was Red Hat 4.0 that won
the prize for best new product of the year. Linux continued to leap-
frog itself in a highly competitive environment, with newer
advantages. Linux stopped competing with Windows back in 1994, and
has been constantly improving, adding new features, improving
performance and capacity, and improving graphics over the past decade.
Microsoft's "competitive" strategy has been to try and pick out a few
of these features, integrate them into Windows, based on what they
perceive as the most profitable features, and tout them as Microsoft
"innovations". They are only "innovations" because this is the first
time that Microsoft has added them to their shovelware offerings.
> http://advice.cio.com/ken_harris/open_the_windows_the_stench_is_unbea...
> Microsoft has serious plans to do away with Windows
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> | This isn't the 90s anymore. In the aftermath of the Vista sales flop, Windows
> | is no longer an automatic choice.
Microsoft still isn't willing to publicly admit that Vista was a
flop. On the other hand, Microsoft is aware that Linux and Unix are
running circles around Microsoft in the server market, and now that
UNIX has shown up on the Mac Desktop, the industry has had a "wake-up
call". Vista PCs are selling, but often at paper-thin margins, or
even at steep losses. Meanwhile, Unix PCs (iMacs) are selling at
substantial profits, and even those reviewers who had nice things to
say about Vista, often ended with "But I'd rather have a Mac".
> | [...]
> | Even if Microsoft does pull the trigger, I can't see Midori showing up until
> | 2013. By that time, it may be too late to stem Microsoft's decline. Still, I
> | find it interesting that Microsoft is even considering a radical operating
> | system shift. This really isn't Bill Gates' Microsoft.
> `----
Microsoft has a real problem. Vista was a flop, but they don't have a
back-up plan. There is no "Chicago" waiting in the wings. Vaporware
announcements of Windows 7.0 don't seem to have impressed anybody.
Microsoft has been running the Synergy project for a couple of years
now, and the optimistic forcasts are that it wouldnt' be available in
a Windows release before 2012.
Bill might have promised a vaporware version of Windows that would do
everything that modern Mac and Linux systems do today, that would be
available "real soon now" even though he knew the earliest delivery
date for anything that actually met all of the promises made, would be
at least 10 years down the road.
Put another way, Microsoft might have something as fast, secure,
reliable, and scalable as Linux or Unix, sometime in 2018. But they
will try to string as many as possible using vaporware, smoke-and-
mirrors beta demos, and over-hyped releases that fall far short of the
actual target, just to prevent a mass exodus to Linux/Unix.
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/microsoft_has_serious_plans_to_do_away...
> Windows is the next UNIX and Microsoft is the next SCO Group.
We've already heard this song before. After 10 years, Microsoft still
doesn't have a product that even comes close to the product of the far
more competitive Linux/Unix market.
> Recent:
>
> Microsoft loses 90 Billion Dollars [in less than a year]
The headline is dated. Microsoft has now lost over 110 billion in
market cap. This is based on current outstanding shares and price
decline over the year. This doesn't take into account Microsoft's
stock buy-back, including purchase of shares owned by Bill Gates and
Steve Ballmer, which were purchased to keep the sales from flooding
the market and crashing the stock price.
> http://slated.org/microsoft_loses_90_billion_dollars
> Microsoft to kill Windows with 'web-centric' Midori?
Lots of hype, but I don't see strong technical leadership who can
actually deliver something that would be sufficiently better than
Linux/Unix to create a compelling argument to submit to a new
Microsoft Monopoly.
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> | Microsoft continues to downplay the importance of Midori by saying it is just
> | a research project.
> `----
Again, there seems to be conflict within the ranks of Microsoft's
technical leadership, in the absence of Bill Gates' iron-fisted
leadership. These conflicting announcements indicates that Microsoft
is tearing itself apart from the inside.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/30/microsoft_midori_technical_de...
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