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Steve Ballmer should join George Lucas in the “big kid’s room” while adults do what they can to salvage their respective companies’ IP.
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Microsoft: Expect Fewer Phones With Windows - NYTimes.com
Well color me surprised, old dogs can learn new tricks:
The decision by Microsoft comes as phone users are getting more discerning about the ease of use of their phones, and the breadth of capabilities. Microsoft has a particular challenge in that unlike some competitors, it does not control both the hardware and the software. By contrast, Apple designs both the hardware and software for the iPhone, while Palm today announced a new device, the Pre, and also makes the operating system, WebOS.
Translation: After years of unfulfilled promises, there are now smartphones on the market like the iPhone that consumers are buying in droves because they don’t suck. Micorosft has finally noticed its ass is smoking, and one of the best ways to stifle the flame is to fix the problem we’ve all been warning about for years: too many form factors (that only serve niche-within-niche markets anyway) leads to a crummy platform that is a drag to develop for and use.
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Attention Shoppers: Microsoft Opens Retail Experience Center
Microsoft counters the “Apple Store” with “Retail Experience Center,” a name that both lacks the company’s brand and contains far too many meaningless syllables. Who the hell is in charge of naming Microsoft’s stuff, and why haven’t they been tossed on their ass yet?
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”I agree with Microsoft: If you can show me a 17-inch laptop for under $1000…you can keep it…cuz, I don’t want it
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Yep, the Windows driver world is still a mind-numbingly pathetic cesspool of unusability
I’m downloading Windows 7 drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 3870 card. ATI is one of the two global graphics power houses in the world, owned by AMD, one of the two largest CPU makers in the world. Neither are short on resources or smart employees. And yet the file for the “ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 Suite for Windows 7 (32-bit)” bundle of software and drivers I need is called “9-4_vista32_win7_32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu.” What in the world is “9-4_vista32_win7_32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu” and who thought it was a good idea to use that name on a file for the public? How is this name useful? How is this efficient? How is that at all the slightest bit user-friendly? Why isn’t the file called “ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 Suite for Windows 7 (32-bit)?” In fact, why doesn’t it even have “ATI” or “Catalyst” in its name? Why is this still so hard for Windows developers to figure out???!
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”For the first time in most of Microsoft’s history, they’re repeatedly failing to dominate desirable secondary markets, including portable media players, mobile phones, and web search (actually, every desirable web market). Microsoft’s entry into a market previously meant imminent death of any other players, but now it’s usually a source of comedy for the tech press.
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Microsoft Ad Campaign Crashing Nation's Televisions | The Onion
Oh Microsoft. What can’t you create a critical system error in?
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Ten Grand is Buried Here | Microsoft
From Microsoft’s ridiculously preposterous and short-sighted contest to try and bribe users into using IE8:
Tell your friends. It’s not as stupid as it sounds.
Yes, Microsoft. It is as stupid as it sounds. In fact, it might even be stupider, and that isn’t even a word.
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Microsoft forbids changes to Windows 7 netbook wallpaper - The Register
Sounds like Microsoft has been taking tips from the RIAA on how to hate their customers.
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”Perhaps Microsoft would do better to measure the efficacy of their ads by their effect on sales, rather than by the number of phone calls they prompt from Apple lawyers.
Daring Fireball: Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
This isn’t the most exemplary quote, but regardless: find me someone to kill so that I may write pieces like this.
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”We don’t believe in coming to market like Apple - high margin, high quality, high price. We believe in high volume and low price.
Steve Ballmer speaking to TechRadar UK
Microsoft’s tactless jock of a CEO finally spells it out.
via Jamie Phelps
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Looks like a gorgeous redesign, and I’m a big believer in the Zune platform. No joke. It has a great UI, and the Zune Marketplace is unique and good in all the ways the iTunes Store is not. I’ve been seriously considering picking up a Zune ever since January, when I had a great experience reviewing the Zune Marketplace and Zune Pass monthly subscription for Ars. When the Zune HD arrives, I might stop just considering it.
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Introducing Microsoft’s iPhone-killer, the Fune. It doubles as a fax machine with downloadable faps.
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I don't think Microsoft is looking for that particular skill
- Me: Here's a job for you: http://jobs.arstechnica.com/list/251/ (Microsoft Windows Guru retail positions)
- Jeff Rock: "Demonstrate the power of the PC in fun, inspirational ways, Take the fear and complexity out of technology and make it easy and enjoyable."
- Jeff Rock: So I'll be installing Macs?
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Come on Microsoft. HOW MANY CHANCES DO YOU NEED TO GET THE FIRST-RUN EXPERIENCE RIGHT?!
I just installed the Zune 4.0 software - released this morning - on a clean Windows 7 Boot Camp install that has never had any Zune software on it. I have all of the latest Windows 7 updates (I manually ran the updater before installing the Zune app). But what do I see the first time I run it? A fucking prompt telling me that the Zune app needs an update and that “additional Microsoft software may be required and installed as part of this Zune software update.”
Why wasn’t this software checked for during the initial install? Why wasn’t it included in the initial install? Why can’t Microsoft find the people responsible for continually crapping out such terrible first-run experiences and flog them publicly in front of the entire Redmond campus to teach them a direly needed lesson?
Update: Even better: after finishing the update process, a dialog tells me that the update was successful. Hooray. But clicking ok quits the update and the Zune software altogether. No restart, no message about needing to start it up again myself.
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Facebook Faced of the Day: Clever boy.
[lamebook.]
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