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21 Replies Last post: Aug 6, 2008 4:35 AM by JimH443   1 2 Previous Next
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Jul 25, 2008 12:50 PM

Microsoft: Stodgy or Innovative? It's All About Perception

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1. Jul 26, 2008 4:47 AM in response to: PCWorld
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WOW! Microsoft came up with a multi touch display. I bet Apple wishes they had something like that. Taking a picture of a street and having information about that street seems...useless. We all can do that now with the name of the street without taking it's picture. What innovation! Like the blind taste test i was impressed with Vista when i first saw it but when it came time to use it in the real world I on my PC then it showed it's true problems. Microsoft has a long way to go to convince everyone of there innovation or declaring "Mission Accomplished" on Vista's problems.
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2. Jul 26, 2008 1:24 PM in response to: PCWorld
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Are you kidding me. I just setup a Vista Dell for a friend. Setup time from box until you could use it 3 hours, which included talking to support about standard speakers that did not work. Mac setup time from box to internet is 5 minutes. You tell me if someting is wrong with Microsoft
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3. Jul 26, 2008 1:37 PM in response to: PCWorld
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Setup time for a Vista box should take 20 minutes tops dcolley. Sounds like you work for Apple
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4. Jul 26, 2008 1:43 PM in response to: PCWorld
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What does this article tell me? MS is absolutely a leader in marketing. Like timeshare salesmen. Stick someone in a room long enough with them and they can convince you of anything ... then when you get home the reality sets in. Looks at whos moving up the ranks at MS, all the marketing guys.
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5. Jul 26, 2008 4:43 PM in response to: drfriday
Re: Microsoft: Stodgy or Innovative? It's All About Perception
Not when half the stuff you already have bought does not work with it. Hey, but I do not have any PC problems. I do not own one.
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6. Jul 26, 2008 7:22 PM in response to: PCWorld
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Next to a lawyer, the second biggist liar in the world, is a software salesman. Hey microsoft, can you hear me now. Don't show me gimmicks, show me how to make it work with what I have. Enough said.
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7. Jul 27, 2008 3:07 AM in response to: PCWorld
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@Marketing101 - If Microsoft was a master of marketing, Vista wouldn't be getting such a bad wrap. Note that its all wrap at this point, as Mojave as proved; when not told they were using Vista, people like it.

@dcolley - Read Ed Bott's bits on FreshStart, and decrapifing PCs. Also a good read is the recent Microsoft communications about optimizing OEM machines. Note that with a clean install on the same spec, both boot at decent rates. Note further that boot times are no longer relevant, as you should Hibernate instead.
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8. Jul 27, 2008 4:41 AM in response to: PCWorld
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drfriday - LMAO! What a laughable assertion. Sounds like YOU work for Microsoft.
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9. Jul 27, 2008 4:46 AM in response to: PCWorld
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Oh the irony! On my screen, I see two ads on the side of this page; one for Vista (SP1) and one for XP (SP2). Vista gets two stars out of five, while XP get four.
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10. Jul 27, 2008 5:11 AM in response to: PCWorld
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rem MSword 5, how none of the old files opened anymore? yeah so that would be welcome to vista. no thanks. when it starts to be a problem the other way, when all my clients send me vista stuff that xp can no longer open, maybe.
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11. Jul 27, 2008 5:51 AM in response to: PCWorld
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I became a linux fan several years ago... Mainly because windows became cost prohibitive. And building a barebone pc and loading linux became the cheap alternative. My only exposure to windows is at work. At home, it's open source.
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12. Jul 27, 2008 8:06 AM in response to: PCWorld
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We don't actually need innovations from Microsoft, we just need it to fix most, if not all, of the problems that tens of millions of users are forced to face everyday. We simply have no other alternatives. Otherwise, I believe Microsoft will be doomed long time ago.
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13. Jul 27, 2008 8:27 AM in response to: PCWorld
Re: Microsoft: Stodgy or Innovative? It's All About Perception
Somebody please tell me just what it is that Microsoft has innovated.

So, with Google Earth type tech they take a picture of a street, and a computer identifies it. The identification using image analysis software invented somewhere else, but certainly not Microsoft.

So, what did they actually innovate? Develop? Sell? Market? Sure. But innovate? Can't think of a thing, and I've been using MS products for coming up on 20 years now.

Stogy? As much as any monopoly will be.
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14. Jul 27, 2008 8:49 AM in response to: PCWorld
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The multi touchscreen is cool but ultumetly useless like everything else M$ supposedly "innovates". As for the blind test of Vista use "everyone" (yeah, right) liked it because they never installed software on it that was more than 3 years old on it. And M$ will forever be a legacy software vendor as long as the sell Window$ and M$ Office, the definition of legacy software.

"If they give you ruled paper write the other way"-dedication of Fahrenheit 451
Stick to games Microsoft! Leave the big stuff to the real programmers. Support Linux, Mozilla, and Open Office.org in the Open Source Revolution!!!
Use OpenOffice.org
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