New Microsoft VP consigns the PC to irrelevance

[essenbe]

I suspect that most of the people who use the Smart Phones all day, get home and plug them into their desktop/laptop.

 

[ThrashZone]

I suspect that most of the people who use the Smart Phones all day, get home and plug them into their desktop/laptop.

I'm telling your using logic

 

[bawldiggle]

When I get home and on weekends, I turn my phone off ... to have a life.
There is nothing on the planet that cannot wait ...

 

[jimbo45]

When I get home and on weekends, I turn my phone off ... to have a life.
There is nothing on the planet that cannot wait ...

Hi there

Wish that were true -- but "Death and Taxes" !!!!!!

Agree with you about phones and weekends -- It saddens me when say I see 4 "friends" sitting at a table in a café / bar or Restaurant and ALL of them are twiddling away with their thumbs -- none of the party are even speaking unless to order another Beer -- and even then I suppose they do it by Texting.

Annoys me also even at Work when you try and speak to someone but they say - can you wait a few minutes as they are dealing with usually 100's of TOTALLY POINTLESS company Emails.

(At work I have it well known that I NEVER read emails if it's CC'd to more than THREE people !!! - that's cut down rubbish emails by around 97% !!).

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Britton30]

Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other! :shock:

 

[Dallas 7]

Hi there


......Agree with you about phones and weekends -- It saddens me when say I see 4 "friends" sitting at a table in a café / bar or Restaurant and ALL of them are twiddling away with their thumbs -- none of the party are even speaking unless to order another Beer -- and even then I suppose they do it by Texting......

Cheers
jimbo

Jimbo you are SOOOOO on target! It's not just sad, it's ridiculous and dangerous.
They can't do anything without texting. They can't converse, eat, work, they can't even drive without texting. On the highways they've become a public menace.
Texting is turning people into digital drug addicts, they can't put it down.

 

[bawldiggle]

OFF TOPIC !

I just don't get the addiction to sitting in a group and texting someone else.

As a very late blooming hippie I have fond memories of very wet weekends, an open fire, three couples. Fortunately we were all mad. Start playing serious cards at about 10 am.
Lunch was a catering pack of beans on toast all washed down with industrial quantities of industrial port.
A lot of talk, lies and laughter.

The drugs of our generation.

:focus:

 

[mjf]

First define what you mean by a PC.
Then define what you really want to use it for.

Mobility is great for some requirements. A person who comes and does a job at your home will probably bill you with a mobile hand held device.
Most office workers require a screen, and a keyboard/mouse. This needs to be networked and both the data and processing capability can be as localized or distributed as you like based on economics. This centralized vs decentralized argument has bounced around for decades.

A PC to me means limited decentralization but with great networking capability and that's the way I like it.

 

[ThrashZone]

Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other! :shock:

:roflmao:

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there

Saw in a local pub very much used by "trendy" (at least they think so) Young professionals the following slogan over the Bar - Nearest English translation :

"With God we converse - With everyone else we text ..." (apologies to the US dollar logo).

I'm waiting for an announcement of the World's FIRST SILENT PUB -- what happens when your favorite team scores a Goal etc !!!!

Actually if you drive using a mobile outside the City here - you won't need any Police etc -- you'll be over the side and very DEAD before anyone could pick you up !!!! The smaller roads (or tracks) change quite quickly so if you don't have 120% attention on the "Road" you're GONE.

Anyway back to the point - I've found tablets virtually UNUSEABLE in bright light for reading (Kindles are better for that job) and If I'm out in a bar why on earth would I want to take a tablet anyway.

A Laptop computer has its uses as I sometimes dicuss with fellow workers some points of work with Excel / PowerPoint - and it's much nicer in a comfortable bar with some food and Beer rather than a boringly massive open plan office with everyone yabbering away on phones etc.

In my book the PC is NOT going away. (Not at least until I've totally retired anyway).

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other! :shock:

:roflmao:

Don't laugh, I've seen it!

 

[ThrashZone]

Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other! :shock:

:roflmao:

Don't laugh, I've seen it!

Yea that's where the hammer meets the head of the nail

 

[Dallas 7]

Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other! :shock:

Probably. LOL :banghead:

 

[Dallas 7]

This Elflop guy is a loser. He ran the biggest mobile company into the ground and now he is working on doing the same with Microsoft. I hope the MS board stops him in his tracks.

Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO): "Fundamentally, we participated in the PC market. Now we are in a market that's much bigger than the PC market, he said."

I'd like to pose a question Mr. Nadella.....If MS is in the right market, at the right time, doing the right thing, why isn't W8 flying off the shelves?

 

[whs]

That is indeed a good question. And the associated tablets are not really doorbusters either. Android and the fruit company are doing a lot better.

I have to say though that I love my W8Phone. Here they got it right. Too bad that this is not getting too much attention either.

But MS just finished a very good quater. Something they make seems to sell.

 

[Computer0304]

That is indeed a good question. And the associated tablets are not really doorbusters either. Android and the fruit company are doing a lot better.

I have to say though that I love my W8Phone. Here they got it right. Too bad that this is not getting too much attention either.

But MS just finished a very good quater. Something they make seems to sell.

:roflmao: I totally know who you are talking about. It would make more sense for them to switch completely to mobile.

 

[jimbo45]

That is indeed a good question. And the associated tablets are not really doorbusters either. Android and the fruit company are doing a lot better.

I have to say though that I love my W8Phone. Here they got it right. Too bad that this is not getting too much attention either.

But MS just finished a very good quater. Something they make seems to sell.

Hi there @Whs

"The Fruit company" doing better -- well if you go by the Markets assessment the Stock is still HUGELY off its high point whereas Ms is around 40 USD -- just a few months ago it was around 25 USD.

APPLE of course has something like 200 BILLION USD in CASH !! so it will have to invest in something - so there could be some decent returns in the future - but currently apart from getting tangled up in Court Cases Apple seems to be going nowhere in long term strategy. The iPhone 5 isn't a huge seller, the smart phone market top end is saturated (even Samsung are finding that out) and the macbooks are so well made that people aren't buying new ones. The one time magnificent APPLE Cinema screen type of monitors which cost a fortune have competition now in decent CHEAP high quality products - and with 4K video soon to appear I don't think APPLE have even got a device that can handle that.

Ms is also now involved in a big way in ROBOTICS and a lot of design engineering too.

Apart from the strength of APPLE's enormous cash reserves I'd be more optimistic about the future of Ms -- what Apple needs is a CEO of Vision -- you won't get a second Steve Jobs but there must be some good people around.

Any APPLE director reading this post -- I'm available -- PM me !!!!.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[whs]

 

[Stephanie]

Jimbo, the stupid part is those 4 friends were probably texting each other! :shock:

My neighbour texts me .. I see him 3 -4 times a day :roflmao:

 

[ThrashZone]

But MS just finished a very good quater. Something they make seems to sell.

Win-7 oem... disks have been selling like hotcakes