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Predictions and wishes for the new year
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| Microsoftâs downward spiral: Does anyone
| care about Microsoft? Sure, hundreds of
| millions of people around the world use
| Microsoft software, but the Google phone and
| the Apple tablet make Microsoft seem like a
| slow-moving behemoth bereft of innovation.
| Tech bloggers and commentators canât seem to
| write about Microsoft without using the word
| "irrelevant."
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http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/predictions_and_wishes_for_the.html
Lessons learned by IT in 2009 #2: Microsoft sheds its 'Dr. Evil' costume
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| In February 2008, Groklaw reporter Pamela
| Jones uncovered a piece of public evidence
| from the Comes v. Microsoft antitrust trial
| in Iowa, that spelled out the symbolism that
| characterized Microsoft's public stance
| throughout the 1990s and for the first part
| of the following decade. Early in 2000, a
| company technical evangelist named James
| Plamondon produced an internal company
| presentation entitled "Effective Evangelism"
| (PDF available here, from Groklaw), but
| which came to be known by its initial
| heading, "Evangelism Is War."
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Lessons-learned-by-IT-in-2009-2-Microsoft-sheds-its-Dr-Evil-costume/1262128831
Top 10 Tech Stories of the Decade
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| Microsoft is busted
|
| In April 2000, U.S. District Court Judge
| Thomas Penfield Jackson issued the first big
| ruling in a series of antitrust decisions to
| hit the software giant during the decade.
| Jackson found that Microsoft maintained its
| monopoly power by anticompetitive means and
| illegally attempted to monopolize the Web
| browser market. The final judgment in the
| U.S. federal case established restrictions
| related to licensing agreements and ordered
| that Microsoft release some of its
| intellectual property. Microsoft also faced
| private and government antitrust cases
| involving individual U.S. states, Sun
| Microsystems, and the European Union, which
| fined Microsoft US$794 million in 2004.
| Ramifications persist. Microsoft still meets
| with U.S. officials who monitor its
| behavior, and the European Commission just
| this month accepted the company's promise to
| allow Windows users to choose which Internet
| browser they use, ending a browser-market
| investigation. The cases were a huge
| distraction for Microsoft but ultimately
| made its software work better with competing
| technology. They also provided a template of
| sorts for antitrust cases brought against
| Intel this year in the U.S. and Europe.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/185511/top_10_tech_stories_of_the_decade.html
Related:
The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade
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| # Introduction
| # Microsoft Vista
|
| [...]
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1898610,00.html
AND THE WINNER IS...
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| WINDOWS VISTA, out of the 6.403 people voting, 5.222 considered Microsoft's
| Operating System a Great Fiasco.
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http://www.fiascoawards.com/
Worst Tech #2: Microsoft Windows Vista
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| We're also unhappy with how sluggish all the systems (and we mean dozens and
| dozens of notebooks) perform with Vista, whether they came with it initially
| or not (although newer systems with Intel's Next Generation Centrino
| processors help Vista press a tad harder on the gas pedal).
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http://www.laptopmag.com/Features/Best-and-Worst-First-Half-of-2007.htm?Page=7
Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech products of all
time
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| Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9823042-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Microsoft credits Project for "Tech's all-time flop" Award
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| Recently the InfoWorld published their list of "Tech's all-time top 25
| flops". When the bodies were counted, the worst software flop of all time
| went to Vista.
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http://www.vcsonline.com/GoodStuff/BlogProjectManagementSoftwarePMS/tabid/61/EntryID/20/Default.aspx
10 Worst Tech Products of 2007
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| Windows Vista: Where to begin? Vista arrived in stores months late, forced
| untold thousands of users to upgrade their hardware, made mincemeat of
| software and drivers that worked perfectly well in XP, ended up lacking many
| of the bold-faced features we'd been promised, and came saddled with new and
| annoying set of video DRM schemes. At least Vista now boasts an option for
| downgrading back to XP.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/9908
Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?
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| We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little
| more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to
| thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
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http://gizmodo.com/342920/holy-crap-did-bill-gates-just-say-windows-sucks
It's Time for a Vista Do-Over
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| I deliver my radical plan for a new Windows OS to one rather surprised
| Microsoftie.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2254104,00.asp
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
|
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
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| #1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
|
| Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html
Microsoft tries to stop more âVista-capableâ e-mails from going public
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| Microsoft is trying to put the kibosh on more of its internal (and
| embarassing) e-mail messages around its Vista marketing plans going public.
|
| [...]
|
| With every version of Windows, Microsoft has worked with hardware partners to
| find new ways to try to convince users they need more and more powerful
| machines to take advantage of more feature-rich software. If Microsoft and
| its partners were/are successful, it means more money in the PC makersâ and
| Microsoftâs coffers. With Vista, this pact really back-fired, as the already
| published e-mails around Vista-capable â and more, as-yet-unpublicized
| messages â will make evident.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1254
Microsoft challenges 'Vista Capable' class action
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| If granted, the motion would also postpone any new disclosures of potentially
| embarrassing company e-mails.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9067400
They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.
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| Act 1: In 2005, Microsoft plans to say that only PCs that are properly
| equipped to handle the heavy graphics demands of Vista are âVista Ready.â
|
| Act 2: In early 2006, Microsoft decides to drop the graphics-related hardware
| requirement in order to avoid hurting Windows XP sales on low-end machines
| while Vista is readied. (A customer could reasonably conclude that Microsoft
| is saying, Buy Now, Upgrade Later.) A semantic adjustment is made: Instead of
| saying that a PC is âVista Ready,â which might convey the idea that, well, it
| is ready to run Vista, a PC will be described as âVista Capable,â which
| supposedly signals that no promises are made about which version of Vista
| will actually work.
|
| The decision to drop the original hardware requirements is accompanied by
| considerable internal protest. The minimum hardware configuration was set so
| low that âeven a piece of junk will qualify,â Anantha Kancherla, a Microsoft
| program manager, said in an internal e-mail message among those recently
| unsealed, adding, âIt will be a complete tragedy if we allowed it.â
|
| Act 3: In 2007, Vista is released in multiple versions, including âHome
| Basic,â which lacks Vistaâs distinctive graphics. This placed Microsoftâs
| partners in an embarrassing position. Dell, which gave Microsoft a postmortem
| report that was also included among court documents, dryly
| remarked: âCustomers did not understand what âCapableâ meant and expected
| more than could/would be delivered.â
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09digi.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin
Microsoft knew of Vista shortcoming prior to release
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-knew-vista-shortcoming-prior/story.aspx?guid=%7B75BE59C7%2DEFA1%2D48B5%2DB4A4%2D90F5E01A52A0%7D&siteid=yhoof
Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/microsoft_intel_vista_capable_emails/
Microsoft 'Caves' To Intel
http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/28/microsoft-vista-intel-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0228vista.html?partner=yahootix
Has Vista lost all credibility?
http://apcmag.com/8344/has_vista_lost_all_credibility
E-mail: Microsoft 'botched' dealings with Intel, HP
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| Internal Microsoft e-mails revealed through a federal class-action lawsuit
| arising from the troubled launch last year of the Windows Vista operating
| system have provided a provocative inside look at the software giant's
| machinations with Intel, HP and Dell.
|
| The e-mails include an exchange in which one senior Microsoft executive
| described dealings with computer makers as "really botched." Another manager
| complained Microsoft was "caving to Intel" and "really burning HP."
|
| The e-mails are included in 145 pages of documents unsealed by U.S. District
| Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle late Wednesday. They include internal
| reports and some handwritten notes that offer a rare look inside at the
| famed "Wintel" partnership, and touch upon the alliance's dealings with
| Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other computer makers.
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http://origin.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/ci_8417811?nclick_check=1
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