July 2009
4 posts
Quantifying the Unquantifiable
In a speech to investors Steve Ballmer demonstrates what is ailing Microsoft. In reference to the Laptop Hunters ads he reaches this conclusion:
“And are the ads working?” he asked rhetorically. “In an independent survey, we asked 18- to 24-year-olds—or they were asked, “Who offers the best value, Apple or Microsoft?” You can kind of see Apple was comfortably ahead...
“Governments don’t tax to get the money they need, governments will always...”
– Ronald Reagan
Microsoft's Gazelle Browser: Decades in the making →
“The Gazelle team decided “the time has come to apply decades-old operating-system experience to the browser-design space.,” the article said. “Gazelle essentially leverages the existing mechanisms of operating systems and tailors them to the needs of Web applications.”
I cringe when I read about someone applying decades old anything to web technology, let alone Microsoft’s bloated...
Windows 7 - So good it has to be given away.
I love Dilger’s take on Windows 7.
“And so, for the first time in Microsoft’s history, Windows is now free, at least for the next year. Anyone can go tohttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx and download the software for installation onto any PC, including Intel Macs. They can use it until March 2010, at which point it will begin nagging for payment by shutting down...