A former Microsoft executive insists that the firm has "lost its coolness." As a step towards improving the situation, Joachim Kempin is calling for Microsoft chief financial officer Steve Ballmer to resign.
A former Microsoft executive insists that the firm has "lost its coolness." As a step towards improving the situation, Joachim Kempin is calling for Microsoft chief financial officer Steve Ballmer to resign.
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I think Kempin is right. There's a lot of people disenchanted with Microsoft right now. The flop called W8 is one reason.
Right now manufacturers like HP and Dell, etc are losing sales because of Microsoft's screw ups.
Manufacturers like HP have had terrible management over the past four years and now they are suffering although in the last few months they have really surpass analyst expectations. Dell, hp and many other manufacturers weren't putting emphasis on the mobile market, Microsoft set a bar with the Windows 8 Surface Pro (at a steep price ) with the release of Microsoft's latest OS that has been design with tablets and mobile devices in mind many manufacturers will now have a greater chance at capitalizing on this new market that Apple has been dominating.
In conclusion Microsoft has not abandon it's OEM partners, this is just my opinion (except for the HP part that I can back up with facts). Microsoft is working on restoring their name brand and their "coolness factor" just turn on the tv and you will see a Microsoft commercial every half an hour at least once.
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sounds like he is trying to be controversial and jumping on the win8 hate bandwagon as he has a new book to sell.
i noticed years ago whenever a group in the UK had a new album to sell and get attention to, they would cause a ruckus with the press or get themselves into the news somehow.
and don't you know it a few weeks later they would be announcing the release of their new album for sale.
it was a marketing strategy of the band "Oasis" for a number of years.
not much changes.
the latest thing is programs on TV about going out there and creating your own American Dream instead of sitting around complaining about the state of finances due to the housing crash and financial crisis in the states ,
Gold Rush is one of those programs that springs to mind. its largely propaganda albeit entertaining,
but not very subtle.
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Manufacturers like HP have had terrible management over the past four years and now they are suffering although in the last few months they have really surpass analyst expectations. Dell, hp and many other manufacturers weren't putting emphasis on the mobile market, Microsoft set a bar with the Windows 8 Surface Pro (at a steep price ) with the release of Microsoft's latest OS that has been design with tablets and mobile devices in mind many manufacturers will now have a greater chance at capitalizing on this new market that Apple has been dominating.
In conclusion Microsoft has not abandon it's OEM partners, this is just my opinion (except for the HP part that I can back up with facts). Microsoft is working on restoring their name brand and their "coolness factor" just turn on the tv and you will see a Microsoft commercial every half an hour at least once.
IMO what Microsoft did to the desktop portion of their business did not restore their "coolness".
When MS tried putting a desktop interface on a phone, it wasn't cool, it was bad.
So what did MS in all their brilliance do? Instead of throwing out the bad idea, they redirected it!
They shifted into reverse and stuck a phone interface on a desktop!
That's cool?? They're not even trying!
All they had to do was create W8 with interface options to serve the desktop crowd AND the mobile market, and everyone would've been happy! EVERYONE! That would've been cool.
Instead, they kissed the mobile market's tail and kicked the desktop market's arse.
Microsoft's "coolness factor" just jumped out of the fire and into the frying pan.
Manufacturers like HP have had terrible management over the past four years and now they are suffering although in the last few months they have really surpass analyst expectations. Dell, hp and many other manufacturers weren't putting emphasis on the mobile market, Microsoft set a bar with the Windows 8 Surface Pro (at a steep price ) with the release of Microsoft's latest OS that has been design with tablets and mobile devices in mind many manufacturers will now have a greater chance at capitalizing on this new market that Apple has been dominating.
In conclusion Microsoft has not abandon it's OEM partners, this is just my opinion (except for the HP part that I can back up with facts). Microsoft is working on restoring their name brand and their "coolness factor" just turn on the tv and you will see a Microsoft commercial every half an hour at least once.
I agree with you about the OEMs, but...
Seeing MS non-informative commercials on TV does nothing for the "coolness factor". The Surface RT is really a nice tablet, but it has a high return rate. The return rate isn't due to the Metro interface, it is due to design flaws.
One of such flaw is the RT email client app does not support POP3 email configuration, only IMAP, and there's no POP3 app available in the app store. Whoever made this decision at MS, ought to be an ex-MS exec.
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) with the release of Microsoft's latest OS that has been design with tablets and mobile devices in mind many manufacturers will now have a greater chance at capitalizing on this new market that Apple has been dominating.
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