Kids in school get used to Google, will use it at home. Potential for money for Google.
Kids in school get used to Bing, will use it at home. No potential money for Google.
Or kids use xyz in school, associate it with unpleasantness, and never use it again.
Where's the money for Google? Microsoft can sell all kinds of stuff after using this as a promotional tool. Google can only sell ads, and I don't see them reacting to this until it's proven to have made an impact worth countering.
Google Apps accounts?
The moment a company decides to use Wordpress as their underlying site "technology", its game over.
Like CNN, NYTimes
This was supposed to be a product that allowed people at home to set up a content site quickly, not an enterprise level technology.
Actually originally and for a long time, it was a blogging platform
So if this thing is causing significant security issues, it should be placed at the top of the Internet's most hated and avoided like the plague.
"if" ? If your aunt had a dick she'd be your uncle.
You can say that without it even crossing your mind that maybe they know something you don't?
Besides how to create monopolies and not pay a real price for it? They were really good at the whole "embrace, extend, extinguish" thing when they needed to, and they got away with it. Impressively so. But now that they've lost that tool, they seem to spend most their time shitting in their own nest. High quality shit, but shit nonetheless.
No iPad support, which is arguably the largest use case scenario. You have to subscribe to Office 365. You can't just buy it in the app store.
I honestly can't come up with a way they could have fucked this up any more. Once again MS snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
Its kind of good sport to watch them shoot themselves in the foot over and over again. One of the wonders of the known universe is they still manage to turn a profit. Its a strange world sometimes.
Why on earth would you need a website for what ought to be a simple RSS reader?
Its an NSA requirement.
I've been using Bing Reader (BReader) for awhile now, absolutely love it! Everything that Google Reader should have been ! iBing isn't too shabby either!
Good to see MS is supporting RSS now.
Yes, only if all of them are just browsing the internet all the time. But if they are making real work, maybe the results would not be that good.
You have to consider the source here too
The only thing that is keeping Ballmer is Windows and Office and still keeping the company afloat financially. However, Vista and Win 8 are huge black marks for Windows which happened under Ballmer's watch. Zune and Kin happened under his watch. Xbox (still not broken even yet) happened under his watch.
True, just 'bing' it!
MS is also Exchange and SQL.
That's only half true.
When will Microsoft wake up the fact they release crap, users are getting fed up with it.
People have been putting up with it for over 20 years; why would MS change their strategy now?
Its finally catching up with them now. They got away with it because they were pretty much the only viable game in town. They fucked up the tablet market, and their phone market, and people have real choices in those areas. But people think of MS as the crap company that pushes crap. And who wants a phone or a tablet from a company that is a known, certified crap dealer. Its quite fun to watch all this though, I gotta say.
While I generally agree with your post, I wonder is there any throat to grab for theCEO if windows fuxors something up?
IF? The problem is there are multiple IT related industries being "supported" by the fuxor syndrome, that is known as "windows". But its accepted, and has become expected. Yea, its very hard to sell "free", but not so hard to sell a guarantee or whathaveyou. The "free" thing does not really have a salesman or account rep.
What else would businesses run?
Uh, Android, Apple, or anything with a web browser. SaaS, Cloud, etc. Not to say that works for every use case, but every use case used to be a windows pc. Plenty of work environments are using tablets (ipads) now as either replacements for pc's or supplements to them, making the pc less important. And the whole point of the article is that the demotion of the ms based pc is a pretty significant trend. Does MS go away completely? Of course not. Are they earning significant less than they would have if things were going their way? Surely. Are they the dominant player across the board that they once were?
I have now worked with Windows 8 now since last october, and it is working just fine for me. I have had no problem getting around the new interface.
You must be the target audience then. The rest of the planet, or most of us anyway, are not.
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
