They should sell a full (not upgrade) version of Windows on a USB thumbdrive, that is designed to boot on a Mac (EFI) and has a full set of drivers pre-installed for all the hardware Apple ships. The fact is, Macs are the most beautiful hardware at the moment, don't fight it, go with it.
He's a prime candidate for an early death after retirement if that makes you feel better. He was a heart attack waiting to happen while he was in charge and once his purpose in life is removed, he's a good candidate for one of those guys that dies suddenly a month or two after leaving work.
Although Ballmer leaving MS is Apple's worst nightmare, here's hoping a new leader can keep the MS employees employed and working hard on new and creative projects. I don't ever want to see a world where Apple has no competitors. Right now, MS is so lost, that I wouldn't even consider it a competitor to Apple.
He's a prime candidate for an early death after retirement if that makes you feel better. He was a heart attack waiting to happen while he was in charge and once his purpose in life is removed, he's a good candidate for one of those guys that dies suddenly a month or two after leaving work.
Wow, I didn't realize imagining someone having a heart attack and dying was a cool thing to post.
I'm not sure if they're interested in disrupting Microsoft Office.
Anyway Microsoft has new cash cow Office 365, and that will keep them relevant at least with businesses for another decade or so.
I like to watch movies. Besides being entertaining, for the most part, movies also tell me a lot about technology. Watch Wall Street from 1987. That mobile phone that Michael Douglas is using is, imo, Office.
Fro shits and giggles watch a few movies from 2006. Keep track of the phones being used. Then fast forward about 3 years. Hmmm... people are using their fingers on that strange contraption. Again... that flip phone in the 2006 movies... that's Office... imho.
Regardless of whether Apple is interested in disrupting MS Office or not -- it's happening.
This is the same kind of thinking you can see Ballmer engaged in in the iPhone video above.
"We have great Windows Mobile devices... it'll do music, it'll do Internet, it's do email, it'll do instant messaging... I like our strategy"
The mistake Ballmer made was thinking only in abstract functionality and not looking at the actual product, and the actual iPhone was 10x better than his.
You also speak in abstract functionality, such as iWork working on the web, being distributed to many people via iDevices, etc - but don't look at the actual product. Pages and Numbers are just awful. Keynote alone is decent.
The best thing to do with Microsoft is to break it up into several smaller companies. This would raise shareholder value while avoiding the internal conflicts that have held this company back for so many years.
"Ballmer's tenure was a profitable but tumultuous period in which Microsoft pushed into new markets beyond the PC, but also saw its stronghold in smartphones..."
Correction: crap-phones. Windows Mobile was utter crap!
Time for Microsoft to do what they should have finished when they started Longhorn. A complete rewrite of Windows as UNIX-based. That whole NT kernel should be allowed to whither and die, taking the registry, scattered .com and .dll files with it! Packages: novel (for MS), yet efficient and easily managed by every single other OS on the planet. Continue to support Win7, 8 and possibly 9 (next year release) for another decade as they've done with WinXP.
How parallel to Apple if they did that*, considering it would take all of their engineering muscle and talent to have something ready in a couple of years, at which time... get ready for it... Windows X...:smokey:
* They won't. Nobody with balls... including "___mer" all these years.
Scott Forstall: save him for a rainy day at Apple once he's grown up and seen "The Light"**; or if TC ever gets tired of all the BS the media and WS constantly throws at him and walks.
** Edited to add: "The Light" being iOS 7 and SF being humbled that some one other than his majesty could create a compelling modern OS. SJ experienced the same... whether he would ever admit or not is another story.
Ballmer was good for Apple so I am sorry to see him go. Good in the sense that he weakened a competitor. A good CEO can turn things around. For proof you only need to look at Yahoo and their recent change of fortune. A new CEO for Microsoft could do the same thing.
The best thing to do with Microsoft is to break it up into several smaller companies. This would raise shareholder value while avoiding the internal conflicts that have held this company back for so many years.
A good idea until you have to try and integrate the diverse holdings into a cohesive product and ecosystem to take on Apple or Google.
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Why is anyone happy about this? Ballmer's the best thing to happen to Microsoft. His replacement might actually be COMPETENT; we don't want that.
They should sell a full (not upgrade) version of Windows on a USB thumbdrive, that is designed to boot on a Mac (EFI) and has a full set of drivers pre-installed for all the hardware Apple ships. The fact is, Macs are the most beautiful hardware at the moment, don't fight it, go with it.
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Why is anyone happy about this? Ballmer's the best thing to happen to Microsoft. His replacement might actually be COMPETENT; we don't want that.
In our fanboy hearts maybe we want Monkeyboy to stay on.
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How is moving that software online not an update?
It's not.
All they did was moved 5 year old software with no new features onto iCloud.
Apple is not even trying to convince us that iWork for iCloud is somehow iWork 2013 so don't act like it is.
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Originally Posted by Robin Huber
Ballmer: "I'm reeatch, beeatch!"
Kinda takes the joy out of it.
He's a prime candidate for an early death after retirement if that makes you feel better. He was a heart attack waiting to happen while he was in charge and once his purpose in life is removed, he's a good candidate for one of those guys that dies suddenly a month or two after leaving work.
Although Ballmer leaving MS is Apple's worst nightmare, here's hoping a new leader can keep the MS employees employed and working hard on new and creative projects. I don't ever want to see a world where Apple has no competitors. Right now, MS is so lost, that I wouldn't even consider it a competitor to Apple.
Ballmer is spending these upcoming 12 months preparing for this:
http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars
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Originally Posted by Gazoobee
He's a prime candidate for an early death after retirement if that makes you feel better. He was a heart attack waiting to happen while he was in charge and once his purpose in life is removed, he's a good candidate for one of those guys that dies suddenly a month or two after leaving work.
Wow, I didn't realize imagining someone having a heart attack and dying was a cool thing to post.
• 2011 iWork for iPhone/iPad
• 2012 iWork for HDTV/AppleTV via AirPlay
• 2013 iWork for iCloud
Regardless of whether Apple is interested in disrupting MS Office or not -- it's happening.
The iDevices make iWork available to the masses...
iWork will increasingly be taught in schools instead of MS Office as one-to-one iPad use in the classroom explodes.
With iWork on iCloud your documents can be accessed from anywhere on any platform -- even Windows, Linux, Chrome, Android...
increasingly, BYOD will mean Bring Your Own Documents!
You figure it out!
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Apple hasn't updated iWork in almost 5 years.
I'm not sure if they're interested in disrupting Microsoft Office.
Anyway Microsoft has new cash cow Office 365, and that will keep them relevant at least with businesses for another decade or so.
I like to watch movies. Besides being entertaining, for the most part, movies also tell me a lot about technology. Watch Wall Street from 1987. That mobile phone that Michael Douglas is using is, imo, Office.
Fro shits and giggles watch a few movies from 2006. Keep track of the phones being used. Then fast forward about 3 years. Hmmm... people are using their fingers on that strange contraption. Again... that flip phone in the 2006 movies... that's Office... imho.
Hitler finds out that Ballmer is out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JD0p-xl2Lc
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
Regardless of whether Apple is interested in disrupting MS Office or not -- it's happening.
This is the same kind of thinking you can see Ballmer engaged in in the iPhone video above.
"We have great Windows Mobile devices... it'll do music, it'll do Internet, it's do email, it'll do instant messaging... I like our strategy"
The mistake Ballmer made was thinking only in abstract functionality and not looking at the actual product, and the actual iPhone was 10x better than his.
You also speak in abstract functionality, such as iWork working on the web, being distributed to many people via iDevices, etc - but don't look at the actual product. Pages and Numbers are just awful. Keynote alone is decent.
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Originally Posted by AppleInsider
"Ballmer's tenure was a profitable but tumultuous period in which Microsoft pushed into new markets beyond the PC, but also saw its stronghold in smartphones..."
Correction: crap-phones. Windows Mobile was utter crap!
Time for Microsoft to do what they should have finished when they started Longhorn. A complete rewrite of Windows as UNIX-based. That whole NT kernel should be allowed to whither and die, taking the registry, scattered .com and .dll files with it! Packages: novel (for MS), yet efficient and easily managed by every single other OS on the planet. Continue to support Win7, 8 and possibly 9 (next year release) for another decade as they've done with WinXP.
How parallel to Apple if they did that*, considering it would take all of their engineering muscle and talent to have something ready in a couple of years, at which time... get ready for it... Windows X...:smokey:
* They won't. Nobody with balls... including "___mer" all these years.
Scott Forstall: save him for a rainy day at Apple once he's grown up and seen "The Light"**; or if TC ever gets tired of all the BS the media and WS constantly throws at him and walks.
** Edited to add: "The Light" being iOS 7 and SF being humbled that some one other than his majesty could create a compelling modern OS. SJ experienced the same... whether he would ever admit or not is another story.
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
• 2011 iWork for iPhone/iPad ...
And still not even feature complete to this day!
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
... • 2012 iWork for HDTV/AppleTV via AirPlay ...
Totally not fair to include this as a "version" of iWork.
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
... • 2013 iWork for iCloud ...
A beta that is not feature complete with even the "not feature complete" iOS version so far.
Apple still has a HUGE amount of work to do to make iWork a respectable product.
What worries me the most is that they don't seem to see it that way at all. They actually seem to think they are doing okay with this stuff.
Ballmer was good for Apple so I am sorry to see him go. Good in the sense that he weakened a competitor. A good CEO can turn things around. For proof you only need to look at Yahoo and their recent change of fortune. A new CEO for Microsoft could do the same thing.
Why sell Xbox when it's starting to become profitable?
A good idea until you have to try and integrate the diverse holdings into a cohesive product and ecosystem to take on Apple or Google.