How embarrassing. As someone else said, this has Steve Ballmer written all over it.
As much as I'd love to see the competition drive advancements for all the companies, I really can't wait to see the Windows 7 phone come out... and then show itself to be an "also ran".
I despise stunts like this. It's such a high school mentality and should be above that of a multi-billion dollar company. Unfortunately, we are talking Microsoft here. You pretty much expect them to make arses of themselves, especially with Stevie B at the helm.
Thats exactly what they did predicting the new halo will outsell Call of Duty Blackops, they are in a roll today!
heheheI
oh...un panameño. it will sell more. te apuesto 100 balboas!
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Originally Posted by PG4G
Hmmm... it just appears to me that Microsoft have no professionalism whatsoever. Even when they create a product to compete with a world-class product like iOS, they destroy it with this childish and pathetic show.
*shakes head*
Can we believe that 90% of the personal computers in the world run an OS made by people this pathetic and immature?
Did you remember the skeleton from Cupertino showing every phone manufacturer on the broken iPhone Antena-gate issue ?
What about the misleading, inaccurate and false I'm a Mac...I'm PC ads ?
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Originally Posted by Mister Snitch
"Microsoft employees held a morbid funeral parade for the iPhone and Blackberry"
The real kiss of death is when you label yourself an iPod/iPhone/iPad killer. The graveyards are full of such products.
Android is taking care of iPhone already. Apple will need to do something drastic if they don't want to be trampled by Android, WP7 and Nokia Symbian-Meego.
oh...un panameño. it will sell more. te apuesto 100 balboas!
Did you remember the skeleton from Cupertino showing every phone manufacturer on the broken iPhone Antena-gate issue ?
What about the misleading, inaccurate and false I'm a Mac...I'm PC ads ?
Android is taking care of iPhone already. Apple will need to do something drastic if they don't want to be trampled by Android, WP7 and Nokia Symbian-Meego.
iPhone is Always going go be beat by android they can pump out a number of cheap phones weekly. But working for AT&T I can tell you once s customer uses a iPhone they are hooked android is just a mismatch of skins and apps iv dealt with so Many issuses already
That little stunt has Ballmer written all over it.
Yes. Never met him but I have met egomaniacs like him. This is exactly what a self obsessed lunatic would do. It's also not very decorous for a major company to do. Nobody in corporate America has the leeway to do shit like this except members of the old boy's club.
S Jobs is usually classy enough never to respond to, or be seen with, the useless Ballmer.
Do you really think you're on par with the other established mobile software giants when your OS doesn't even have a Copy & Paste function, multitasking, or an extensive library of apps?
I wonder if many other people like myself looked at those images of men with black placards showing the Windows emblem, and wondered if they had seen it before - in pictures from the 30's... The German National Party? The swastika?
Do you really think you're on par with the other established mobile software giants when your OS doesn't even have a Copy & Paste function, multitasking, or an extensive library of apps?
Wake up, Microsoft...
They can't control the app library issue; no one can properly develop apps for a platform that isn't live, yet. That said, the other stuff you mention is a problem, and I figure that the platform will be a failure in the consumer space, at least initially.
If Microsoft had done a quick-and-dirty update of the Danger OS to create Kin, then that might have given them more time to get multitasking and cut/copy/paste into the first version of the WinPhone7 OS. But they're Microsoft; they've had a recent history of bungling first-generation products of all kinds. Heck, it took two generations of Vista to finally get that OS right, and that was of an entrenched product. (I wonder what would have happened if Windows didn't exist until recently, and some other OS -- perhaps Mac OS -- was the de facto OS. Would Windows have eventually been cancelled like Kin?)
However, it's a bad idea to count WinPhone7 out, if only because of its enterprise features. It's quite possible that businesses choose this platform en masse because of its Office integration. Apple and Google, start your photocopiers...
(I wonder how quickly Microsoft figures out it needs a tablet version of WinPhone7?)
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Apple once held a funeral...for their own product...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
Yea, and this funeral was at least classy, not like the uninspired and very fake MS one. Halloween costumes? and a fake square box?!! WTF!!!
I bet that sometime in a few years, "bragging" will be said "microsofting".
Or MS'ing, kind of like BS'ing.
The word 'hubris' comes to mind.
Indeed.
I also foresee a funeral in Windows Phone 7's future. Next of Kin anyone?
Ok, you win best joke in this thread.
As much as I'd love to see the competition drive advancements for all the companies, I really can't wait to see the Windows 7 phone come out... and then show itself to be an "also ran".
I despise stunts like this. It's such a high school mentality and should be above that of a multi-billion dollar company. Unfortunately, we are talking Microsoft here. You pretty much expect them to make arses of themselves, especially with Stevie B at the helm.
Is this a company, or a group of band nerds who gather everyday near the cafeteria at lunchtime?
Who comes up with this shit? The same assbag who came up with the Windows Store dance routine quagmire?
That photo was probably taken with an iPhone.
Android Evo
Thats exactly what they did predicting the new halo will outsell Call of Duty Blackops, they are in a roll today!
heheheI
oh...un panameño. it will sell more. te apuesto 100 balboas!
Hmmm... it just appears to me that Microsoft have no professionalism whatsoever. Even when they create a product to compete with a world-class product like iOS, they destroy it with this childish and pathetic show.
*shakes head*
Can we believe that 90% of the personal computers in the world run an OS made by people this pathetic and immature?
Did you remember the skeleton from Cupertino showing every phone manufacturer on the broken iPhone Antena-gate issue ?
What about the misleading, inaccurate and false I'm a Mac...I'm PC ads ?
"Microsoft employees held a morbid funeral parade for the iPhone and Blackberry"
The real kiss of death is when you label yourself an iPod/iPhone/iPad killer. The graveyards are full of such products.
Android is taking care of iPhone already. Apple will need to do something drastic if they don't want to be trampled by Android, WP7 and Nokia Symbian-Meego.
Android Evo
oh...un panameño. it will sell more. te apuesto 100 balboas!
Did you remember the skeleton from Cupertino showing every phone manufacturer on the broken iPhone Antena-gate issue ?
What about the misleading, inaccurate and false I'm a Mac...I'm PC ads ?
Android is taking care of iPhone already. Apple will need to do something drastic if they don't want to be trampled by Android, WP7 and Nokia Symbian-Meego.
iPhone is Always going go be beat by android they can pump out a number of cheap phones weekly. But working for AT&T I can tell you once s customer uses a iPhone they are hooked android is just a mismatch of skins and apps iv dealt with so Many issuses already
That little stunt has Ballmer written all over it.
Yes. Never met him but I have met egomaniacs like him. This is exactly what a self obsessed lunatic would do. It's also not very decorous for a major company to do. Nobody in corporate America has the leeway to do shit like this except members of the old boy's club.
S Jobs is usually classy enough never to respond to, or be seen with, the useless Ballmer.
Mobile Developers!
Mobile Developers!!
Mobile Developers!!!
Mobile Developers!
Mobile Developers!!
Mobile Developers!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
Wake up, Microsoft...
This has to be a new low.
Yeah - unbelievable. Just fucking embarrassing
Do you really think you're on par with the other established mobile software giants when your OS doesn't even have a Copy & Paste function, multitasking, or an extensive library of apps?
Wake up, Microsoft...
They can't control the app library issue; no one can properly develop apps for a platform that isn't live, yet. That said, the other stuff you mention is a problem, and I figure that the platform will be a failure in the consumer space, at least initially.
If Microsoft had done a quick-and-dirty update of the Danger OS to create Kin, then that might have given them more time to get multitasking and cut/copy/paste into the first version of the WinPhone7 OS. But they're Microsoft; they've had a recent history of bungling first-generation products of all kinds. Heck, it took two generations of Vista to finally get that OS right, and that was of an entrenched product. (I wonder what would have happened if Windows didn't exist until recently, and some other OS -- perhaps Mac OS -- was the de facto OS. Would Windows have eventually been cancelled like Kin?)
However, it's a bad idea to count WinPhone7 out, if only because of its enterprise features. It's quite possible that businesses choose this platform en masse because of its Office integration. Apple and Google, start your photocopiers...
(I wonder how quickly Microsoft figures out it needs a tablet version of WinPhone7?)
Oh wait, it's par for the course:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/blogs/inde...d=136&blogid=8
Fewer PR Stunts + Better Developers+ Better Company Vision =$$$
That's hilarious
You've gotta be yankin' me. No way they really did that.
Oh....There's a...Photo...
Oh my gosh, what the hell? That is the funniest thing I ever heard. What are they putting in the water in Redmond?
Well, since you asked...from the same photostream as the "funeral" photo: