You didn't get it at "Baller was reported to have..."?
Nope. Dense as a fence sometimes... ...and Ballmer is so over the top I felt that in "Yaaaaaa! Yaaaaaa!" mode he could have gotten so aggressive in a "joking" way to say things nearly that outrageous..
If I were facing the string of failure after failure to tactically exercise strategic plans (a lot of the tech's not bad, but the management, handling, roll out, emphasis, marketing, projections, inventory management, customer relations, etc. have all been abysmal). So no degree of acting unhinged would totally surprise me at this point. Tough times in Redmond and the pressure is on.....
....Marissa Mayer was tapped for the CEO position by the wrong company. MS has lots of IP and talent (much acquired), they just have a guy with the totally wrong skill set and aura at the helm.
And the wrong ethos. Windows 8 should have been Windows 9, with 8 a modest Maverick level refinement to hold the fort - debuting only on Windows Phone (and with all the focus there, at at least Win 8.1 level where MS' problems were most critical - and then scaling a good phone up to the RT tablet level once the phones were catching on. And releasing the modern UI at the PC level when the kinks were worked out - likely still 18 months or more from now.
Imagine a Nokia 925 and 1020 (or as close as tech could've come 15 months ago) running an 8.1 level as MS' INITIAL release of the modern UI, while the traditional base was happy enough with some tweaks and eye candy (yes I know a fair number of the basics were in 7 - on not that great instruments, but that would've been dismissed if these were the follow-ons). The whole script could (and I say would) have played out differently.
And as for the desktop version, hell, if it's a robust platform at a minimum it should have come out with all of MS's own major apps, especially a complete Metro Office and more. Which it still doesn't have, so no wonder PC users can't wait to dismiss it at start-up. It's like Apple saying you have to go into some "Classic" mode to run Final Cut Pro, but you can't get there without going through another OS interface that does little of what you need an OS for.
Apple frustrates me. A lot sometimes. And I think they've missed a trick on apparently not releasing a larger screen size during this cycle and that it will cost them a bit market-share wise. (Maybe enough for me to go with the 1020's follow-on plus a new iPad - to keep a foot in multiple camps - as my next Mac Book will also have Windows and VM Ware.) But whatever issues I have, Apple really doesn't release products until they think they're ready whereas MS (while they were momentarily doing better) has again been willing to shove half-baked stuff out the door and patching, polishing and straightening things over the next two releases on the backs of suffering users.
But that trick won't work anymore now that they've dropped to 30% of computing device share.
But yeah, getting all analytical aside, the post still went right over my fried head.
[quote name="bigpics" url="/t/159139/youtube-for-ios-gets-multitasking-radical-fm-takes-on-pandora-with-pay-what-you-can-model#post_2383203"][QUOTE name="PhilBoogie" url="/t/159139/youtube-for-ios-gets-multitasking-radical-fm-takes-on-pandora-with-pay-what-you-can-model#post_2383087"] You didn't get it at "Baller was reported to have..."?[/QUOTE]
Nope. Dense as a fence sometimes...[/QUOTE]
I like that!
[QUOTE] ...and Ballmer is so over the top I felt that in "Yaaaaaa! Yaaaaaa!" mode he could have gotten so aggressive in a "joking" way to say things nearly that outrageous.. [/QUOTE]
As a matter of fact, he just did: giving the Surface RT away for free to education. Lol
[QUOTE]If I were facing the string of failure after failure to tactically exercise strategic plans (a lot of the tech's not bad, but the management, handling, roll out, emphasis, marketing, projections, inventory management, customer relations, etc. have all been abysmal). So no degree of acting unhinged would totally surprise me at this point. Tough times in Redmond and the pressure is on.....[/QUOTE]
For the past decade, I'd say. Not because of Apple('s iPad), but more-so because of Baller.
[QUOTE]....Marissa Mayer was tapped for the CEO position by the wrong company.[/QUOTE]
What makes you say that? Any company you have in mind for her? I don't know much about her, except for reading all the articles when she took the helm, read up on her stint at Google. I don't think she's CEO level, then again, who am I to judge?
[QUOTE] MS has lots of IP and talent (much acquired), they just have a guy with the totally wrong skill set and aura at the helm. [/QUOTE]
That indeed strikes me as odd; the stock lost half its value during his past decade as CEO. If they don't want to fire him, why not copy Samsung and have 3 co-CEO's?
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie
You didn't get it at "Baller was reported to have..."?
Nope. Dense as a fence sometimes... ...and Ballmer is so over the top I felt that in "Yaaaaaa! Yaaaaaa!" mode he could have gotten so aggressive in a "joking" way to say things nearly that outrageous..
If I were facing the string of failure after failure to tactically exercise strategic plans (a lot of the tech's not bad, but the management, handling, roll out, emphasis, marketing, projections, inventory management, customer relations, etc. have all been abysmal). So no degree of acting unhinged would totally surprise me at this point. Tough times in Redmond and the pressure is on.....
....Marissa Mayer was tapped for the CEO position by the wrong company. MS has lots of IP and talent (much acquired), they just have a guy with the totally wrong skill set and aura at the helm.
And the wrong ethos. Windows 8 should have been Windows 9, with 8 a modest Maverick level refinement to hold the fort - debuting only on Windows Phone (and with all the focus there, at at least Win 8.1 level where MS' problems were most critical - and then scaling a good phone up to the RT tablet level once the phones were catching on. And releasing the modern UI at the PC level when the kinks were worked out - likely still 18 months or more from now.
Imagine a Nokia 925 and 1020 (or as close as tech could've come 15 months ago) running an 8.1 level as MS' INITIAL release of the modern UI, while the traditional base was happy enough with some tweaks and eye candy (yes I know a fair number of the basics were in 7 - on not that great instruments, but that would've been dismissed if these were the follow-ons). The whole script could (and I say would) have played out differently.
And as for the desktop version, hell, if it's a robust platform at a minimum it should have come out with all of MS's own major apps, especially a complete Metro Office and more. Which it still doesn't have, so no wonder PC users can't wait to dismiss it at start-up. It's like Apple saying you have to go into some "Classic" mode to run Final Cut Pro, but you can't get there without going through another OS interface that does little of what you need an OS for.
Apple frustrates me. A lot sometimes. And I think they've missed a trick on apparently not releasing a larger screen size during this cycle and that it will cost them a bit market-share wise. (Maybe enough for me to go with the 1020's follow-on plus a new iPad - to keep a foot in multiple camps - as my next Mac Book will also have Windows and VM Ware.) But whatever issues I have, Apple really doesn't release products until they think they're ready whereas MS (while they were momentarily doing better) has again been willing to shove half-baked stuff out the door and patching, polishing and straightening things over the next two releases on the backs of suffering users.
But that trick won't work anymore now that they've dropped to 30% of computing device share.
But yeah, getting all analytical aside, the post still went right over my fried head.
And equall amazing the man still has his job.
You didn't get it at "Baller was reported to have..."?[/QUOTE]
Nope. Dense as a fence sometimes...[/QUOTE]
I like that!
[QUOTE] ...and Ballmer is so over the top I felt that in "Yaaaaaa! Yaaaaaa!" mode he could have gotten so aggressive in a "joking" way to say things nearly that outrageous.. [/QUOTE]
As a matter of fact, he just did: giving the Surface RT away for free to education. Lol
[QUOTE]If I were facing the string of failure after failure to tactically exercise strategic plans (a lot of the tech's not bad, but the management, handling, roll out, emphasis, marketing, projections, inventory management, customer relations, etc. have all been abysmal). So no degree of acting unhinged would totally surprise me at this point. Tough times in Redmond and the pressure is on.....[/QUOTE]
For the past decade, I'd say. Not because of Apple('s iPad), but more-so because of Baller.
[QUOTE]....Marissa Mayer was tapped for the CEO position by the wrong company.[/QUOTE]
What makes you say that? Any company you have in mind for her? I don't know much about her, except for reading all the articles when she took the helm, read up on her stint at Google. I don't think she's CEO level, then again, who am I to judge?
[QUOTE] MS has lots of IP and talent (much acquired), they just have a guy with the totally wrong skill set and aura at the helm. [/QUOTE]
That indeed strikes me as odd; the stock lost half its value during his past decade as CEO. If they don't want to fire him, why not copy Samsung and have 3 co-CEO's?