Comment Bad Microsoft! (Score 1) 210
We don't need more versions with tiered pricing.. we need less versions and less confusion.
We don't need more versions with tiered pricing.. we need less versions and less confusion.
Every day like their has been for a few days now... IT will finally be forced to turn into a profession.
One pesky fact about this fading business...
Quarterly Revenue:
June 30, 2005 10.16B
June 30, 2011 17.37B
June 30, 2017 23.32B
The idea that Microsoft is dependent on Windows revenue at this point is laughably out of date. They gave the last version away!
Of course they still rely on the lock-in that comes from Windows huge software library.. but Microsoft is less dependent on the OS than at any time in its history since it got into the OS market. Unless you count Azure as an OS.. all the eggs are going in that basket now. Office 365 is hugely important as well.
Microsoft has several billion dollar a year products now. Get with the times, people.
They will still gladly tell you that whatever you are doing is good. For $400/hour.
That's basically their (big accounting consultancies) role, provide cover, tell you what you want to hear.
Yup. auditors are a textbook case of a conflict of interest.
Microsoft replacing a bunch of their duplicate services with one service to rule them all... I just wish they would decide on one and stick with it for a while.
The constant renaming and shifting strategies from NetMeeting to Groove to Yammer to Lync to Skype to Teams is getting kind of annoying.
That and their general problems with naming products.. geesh..
At the moment, maintaining a robot costs as much as employing a human. It requires other humans to repair it when things break, even with built-in diagnostic software that detects faults before they cause other problems.
That is absolutely false.
If that was the case, the beancounters wouldn't be using the robots in the first place.
It really *is* different?
(I think it is)
By the way, how does one break in the the "futurist" job market? It sounds like a great job predicting things that may or may not happen. Like the weatherman.
I take it that you have seen this:
Rather than obsessing about buying the right security products, Levy argued, organisations should instead focus on managing risk: understanding the data they hold, the value it has, and how much damage it could do if it was lost, for instance.
But what do you suppose the chances are that the leaders of these organizations magically start thinking that way?
Also he forgot one important part. Planning for what to do when the inevitable happens.
Imagine Warren Buffett if he were born on an island where hunting skill was valuable. He'd be poor. The best hunter would be the wealthy one. Don't ignore the place you live.
Warren Buffett makes this point often when talking about his good fortune.
He acknowledges how lucky he was to be born into the circumstances he was and also at the time he was..
You'll be super rich and successful too, honest. Just listen to all the successful people who believe this...
Sure, hard work is part of it, but as this article points out it is only part of it. Coming from the correct womb and happening to be in the right place at the right time seems to have a lot more to do with it.
There are plenty of people who work their asses off and get no where.
Good post, at least based on what I remember, you've got it all correct.
Bachelor's degrees in computer science are absolutely supposed to lead to jobs as coders. But not as "code monkeys".
Not in real computer science programs. Strangely enough, computer science programs are supposed to teach you computer science.
1) Patents
2) A notch in the belt for the executives responsible for the decision
The degree of pro-corporate spin in Jaffe's remarks is appalling.
Agreed! That was some serious corporate-speak.
Why a foundation like the W3C even has a "CEO" itself boggles my mind.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
