Microsoft - can it be beaten

[Lebon14]

The majority of Microsoft products are useful, useable and good to look at. Plus they just work. None of this compiling nonsense.

+1, Thank you!

This!!! that is why I hate Linux ao much... it's so complicated to install ONE software. On windows, a double-click AND IT WORKS.

 

[Zidane24]

The majority of Microsoft products are useful, useable and good to look at. Plus they just work. None of this compiling nonsense.

+1, Thank you!

This!!! that is why I hate Linux ao much... it's so complicated to install ONE software. On windows, a double-click AND IT WORKS.

I am not saying that you are an average user but this proves my point.

Not everyone is a programmer though.

I'm not a programmer either. And you don't need to be to compile software as long as you can read the directions either included with or on the website where you get the downloaded source code.

What we are not realizing is that people want to press the big button on the fron of this big square block...wait a min or two (not to long though...)...click their familiar name...type a short and easily recognizable password...wait a few more minutes...then double click that icon that looks like a big "e" to go to the internet or one of the Microsoft Office applications

I could go on but I think you are starting to get what I mean. People do not want to:

1. Read instructions just to run their favorite software
2. Search and install their favorite software
3. *The Golden One* Do any effort past doubling clicking to run their favorite software.

The vast majority of folks fall in the steps above and this is where Microsoft stands the most powerful in: Usability. Most people buy some shiny new PC they seen on a commercial and 9/10 it just works due to it running Microsoft software. I personally would love to use linux full-time but that will not happen until their usability greatly increases. I know Ubuntu is getting there but it just isn't there yet and going against the Microsoft mindset may turn out to be a suicide run

 

[Lee]

I think a couple of you have hit the "Nail on the head." It has to be easy to use, and that is what Microsoft has done (Apple also), made it easy to use. This "Easy" is what the large corporations want. They are looking for a way to keep the training levels at the lowest possible point. This "Easy" is what the average computer user is looking for, not something that requires them to read some long drawn out instruction. Because of this need for things to be easy is why Linux will not make it in the world of big business.

As to Cloud Computing; do we really thing a large corporation is going to put all it marbles on the internet. Come on, that is just not going to happen. If you think so just look at the problems all the large E-Mail providers have with hackers. Not sure about all of you, albeit it will be a cold day in you know where before I would trust any thing of mine to a web site.

 

[Zidane24]

I think a couple of you have hit the "Nail on the head." It has to be easy to use, and that is what Microsoft has done (Apple also), made it easy to use. This "Easy" is what the large corporations want. They are looking for a way to keep the training levels at the lowest possible point. This "Easy" is what the average computer user is looking for, not something that requires them to read some long drawn out instruction. Because of this need for things to be easy is why Linux will not make it in the world of big business.

As to Cloud Computing; do we really thing a large corporation is going to put all it marbles on the internet. Come on, that is just not going to happen. If you think so just look at the problems all the large E-Mail providers have with hackers. Not sure about all of you, albeit it will be a cold day in you know where before I would trust any thing of mine to a web site.

I agree Lee...Cloud Computing is an innovative concept that will hopefully gain some use in the market but I highly doubt that it is "the future". There are many factors (security, accessbility, etc) that make Cloud Computing not as favorable as most see it.

Time will tell but to tell time right now would be to say that Could Computing is not the best leading innovation going 2010 and beyond

 

[Antman]

The PC is the new thing - cloud computing is nothing new. Only the network connection has changed. Dumb terminals are in everyones's future.

 

[swarfega]

I hope not. I want complete control over what goes on my computer.

 

[Antman]

Your network is the cloud.

Your daughter's dumb terminal is at her school/dorm room.

If I am the admin, I like the cloud. If I am the consumer, I want my PC.

 

[H2SO4]

Not all readers can code.

Not all coders can read.


EDIT: but I see you already pointed that out 423 posts ago

 

[Antman]

Not all readers can code.

Not all coders can read.


EDIT: but I see you already pointed that out 423 posts ago

You almost provided the proof. Wish I had caught this before the edit.

 

[H2SO4]

Not all readers can code.

Not all coders can read.


EDIT: but I see you already pointed that out 423 posts ago

You almost provided the proof. Wish I had caught this before the edit.

<BS> It's a forwards/backwards reading thing. Stacks grow backwards in memory. </BS>

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EDIT: BTW, if anybody knows the name of that bellydance track in the background, please tell me. I've spent most of my life looking. Ta.

 

[Antman]

I just saw in another thread that you have a toddler. Joli Bear has recently developed a nasty habit, six months ahead of schedule - My way or the highway.

I will try duct tape.

 

[H2SO4]

I just saw in another thread that you have a toddler. Joli Bear has recently developed a nasty habit, six months ahead of schedule - My way or the highway.

I will try duct tape.

Katia is almost 18 moths old and she makes my world go round. I'm pigheaded too, but nothing could have prepared me for the strength of conviction she frequently displays.

Thanks for the duct tape tip. Now that beating them is about to be made illegal here (that's what attracted me to this thread's title), I'm doing research into alternative "best practices" in parenting.

 

[torrentg]

As to Cloud Computing; do we really thing a large corporation is going to put all it marbles on the internet. Come on, that is just not going to happen. If you think so just look at the problems all the large E-Mail providers have with hackers. Not sure about all of you, albeit it will be a cold day in you know where before I would trust any thing of mine to a web site.

This is why some innovative company, possibly MS, should create a way to use all the pcs on your private lan for CPU power. Say you have 5 machines in your house, 2 have users sitting at them. Those 2 pcs should benefit from the CPU cycles of all 5. I think this would easily be possible for a large company to develop. Basically, all the CPU power of all machines should be available to any single machine or spread evenly if all are in use.

Intel and AMD would get pissed off because their sales would drop regardless of how great their latest and greatest is. People just wouldn't have a need for any further CPU bandwidth. Not for a really, really long time.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi all
When I was a young kid and got taken to Church on Sundays I remember a very well known hymn - the English translation is approximately as follows

.....Empires rise and sink like billows -- vanish and are seen no more.......

This is also true of corporations.

MS is fine now - but in 100 years or whatever (maybe even in 20) other developments will certainly arrive which will totally "obsolete" todays products.

Who knows what tomorrows "Garage tinkerers" will come up with -- "Texting" was initially added to mobile phones as a way of using up some spare bandwidth - nobody at the time foresaw that "texting" would make nearly as much money as the main "phone" type of application.

And the Hymn was correct with empires -- Ancient Greek, Roman, Nazi, British Empire - all now history -- some did give things back to the world others not.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Antman]

...MS is fine now - but in 100 years or whatever (maybe even in 20) other developments will certainly arrive which will totally "obsolete" todays products...

So true. AT&T saw cellular technology as a losing proposition and invested zero dollars. Then, they had to buy McCaw for ~$40 billion.

Where is AT&T now?

 

[Adrian]

It died a slow death in a xerox lab......
Bushnell tried to move it up a notch but could'nt figure out what he had started at ATari, TOS led to DOS and then the ride began.
On stardate 4729.4 the M-5 Multitronic will be born.
A Vulcan Science officer will tell his captain that he has no desire to serve under a computer.

 

[Adrian]

M5

The M-5 Multitronic computer.

 

[Antman]

It died a slow death in a xerox lab......
Bushnell tried to move it up a notch but could'nt figure out what he had started at ATari, TOS led to DOS and then the ride began.
On stardate 4729.4 the M-5 Multitronic will be born.
A Vulcan Science officer will tell his captain that he has no desire to serve under a computer.

Name dropping.

I was driving a '76 El Dorado drop top that once belonged to Matt Zuckerman, also of Atari. An 18-wheeler drove over and through the car. At the time, the car belonged to John Snead, president of BSN.

Matt gave the car to John Snead in lieu of $4,000 in a total payment of $25,000 for an agency agreement to sell AT&T SDN. Snead insured the car for $14,000. The insurance company settled for $9,800.

I still have a mangled hubcap from that car.

About Snead - I was on the sales management team at BSN. I wrote INTEGRITY in block letters and hung it on the wall. One day, Snead comes in, sees the sign and says, "Inntuhgritty? What's that?"

Snead hired me because I am a Marine. I doubled my annual income that year. Doubled it again the next year.

 

[Lee]

Why me. . .

 

[Adrian]

Arrogance.....