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100 Things You Must Know About Microsoft's Most Important Product Launch Ever | |
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| Time: 14:41 EST/19:41 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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It's been five long years--a lifetime in the software industry--since the release of Windows XP. During that time, Microsoft has invested nearly $9 billion in XP's successor, Windows Vista, and the Office 2007 suite of applications. Finally, the wait is over. At an invitation-only affair in New York this week, CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft's market-leading e-mail platform. Desktop and server products last year accounted for 82% of Microsoft's $44.3 billion in annual revenue, underscoring how important the three new releases are to Gates, Ballmer & Co. | ||
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| #1 By 26048 (12.180.11.211) at 11/30/2006 3:21:19 PM |
| BFD |
| #2 By 8556 (12.207.97.148) at 11/30/2006 3:30:18 PM |
| "Who wants to pay a premium for PC software when other, more interesting applications are free online?" What is this guy smoking? This is nonsense, since Windows is preloaded on new PCs and an OS and browser are needed to get to the online free stuff. Also, computer gaming will achieve new levels of experience with DX10 once Vista is tweaked and the rough edges ironed out in the next few months, and of course, once the games actually appear.\ |
| #3 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 11/30/2006 6:43:54 PM |
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Many of these guys differ very little from any other journalist, or reporter - they have deadlines and copy [wells] to fill.
"Write something... anything..." We have to begin to expect much more from our media and its professionals. We have to move away from bad ones and toward good ones, or like any bad business, it will never improve. The ones that really bum me out are the pseudo intellectuals that not so cleverly, discount and criticize everything Microsoft does. It's not even close to balanced any longer or even remotely, or apparently sincere. It's just bashing to for the sake of some kind of chic and as bad as being marked as an MS fanboy for finding anything good to say about Microsoft - when most people try and find the good in all things - regardless of who makes them or how successfully they do it. Is Vista everything we wanted it to be? No. Is it everything Microsoft wanted it to be? No, and they say so. The nice part is they accomplished something good - and certainly, good enough. Better still, they will continue to improve upon it and develop its successor, Vienna. Of these last two, I bet they will do this long before most people and developers use, or leverage even half of what Vista can do natively, or enable as a platform - are we to be judged as harshly, too? It could be helpful to look at the thing we each like least about Vista and then seek what we like about that. I don't particularly like how it looks, but I don't much like the color red, either. I do however like how customizable the UI's look actually is and after learning how to control that, I was able to find a look that worked for me. |
| #4 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 11/30/2006 7:13:09 PM |
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lketchum, my personal favorites are the journalists that write articles that have a question mark in them. I didn't take anything remotely like journalism in college, but I have to think that breaks some kind of old journalism rule.
"Vista launches: Will Microsoft now go bankrupt?" |
| #5 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 11/30/2006 9:41:42 PM |
| "Five Years in the Making. Is Vista Worth the Wait?" |
| #6 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 11/30/2006 9:42:35 PM |
| "Britney Dumps K-Fed. Is She Now a Lesbian?" - opps, sorry - wrong forum... |
| #7 By 2960 (68.100.7.161) at 12/1/2006 1:44:20 AM |
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#4,
Yeah, kinda like those 10 second 'weather' advertisements the local stations put up just before going back to a show after a commercial break. Local Weatherman: "Will it snow 40" tonight and close schools? Find out at 11". I find them extremely irritating. TL |
| #8 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 12/1/2006 3:15:13 AM |
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Mooresa56, My absolute favorite of all time was a real one - losely translated from the Russian
[Circa 1973]: "In an international race, today, a Soviet driver completed the race in second place. The American driver finished second to last." The paper, "Pravda" or the "Truth" failed to include the fact that there were only two cars in the race! I have not seen or heard anything that one could consider journalism since William L. Shirer passed away many years ago. He was perhaps the most courageous journalists that ever lived - suffering great hardship at the hands of Ed Murrow, of all people. For years many fellow conservatives were highly critical of me for defending Mr. Shirer so fiercely - he was after all, Black-Listed as being pro "Red" - he wasn't by the way... he simply disagreed with the Truman Doctrine. [side note: you can't imagine how tough it is to sustain independent thought while serving a government - any government]. Shirer, in my opinion, the consumate journalist, wanted to examine not only our own motives, but those of the former Soviet Union's as well - seeking to understand them and perhaps prevent another terrible war. For this, he nearly starved until his most successful book, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" was published in 1960 [and printed nearly two dozen more times after]. His best work is, "20th Century Journey" We tend to give all credit to President Ronald Reagan for the end of the cold war. This is simply awful. Yes, he was very central to that, but he had the most supportive and important partner he could have, Mikhail Gorbachev - a man who deserves the majority of the credit for having the guts to ask one question: "What? What shall I do? Send in the tanks AGAIN?" He didn't of course, but he certainly could have. How different might our world now be if only "journalists" would have honored Gorbachev and Reagan equally. Understanding and a real personal friendship created that famous question - not any feat of political, or real arms. Journalists would have told this story, this way and today, Russia would be very close to us - we'd help them become wealthy recovering their oil and we'd have a source of fuel outside SW Asia and Venezuala. Instead, pundits told it one way and one way only. For a very long time, journalism has been dead. Instead, reporting begins with a set of ideals and goals - most track with those of the publisher, or network and they hire people who agree with them. Long before a story is written, "The Story" is "decided" and the results tailored to suite the publisher. We see it, read it and hear it everyday and it is dreadful. I doubt that anyone can even teach journalism well any longer. It is a science that will have to be rediscovered. That isn't new. Many sciences have been lost and found again many times in our brief history as a literate species. Part politics, part news as entertainment, it's all garbage and the more one is exposed to it, the more like a potted plant they become. My advice - write - write constantly - about everything you think. Then read it - within it, one may discover a great deal about what does matter to them. With that understanding and against what one reads, or hears in the press, may be found the very obvious departures from journalism and shocking omissions of fact, or the misrepresentations of it. For myself it was pretty simple - I couldn't save the world, but I could save the really tiny piece I was standing on. [all career soldiers really do think that if they are good enough, then all people will be free and find peace - some don't want it]. Such nonsense will end when the majority of people figure out that it is better to do what is right rather than be right - or we're replaced by the next species to dominate this puny little island we call home. #6, LOL - that was funny. |
| #9 By 13030 (198.22.121.110) at 12/1/2006 12:02:11 PM |
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#8: ...when the majority of people figure out that it is better to do what is right rather than be right...
Never going to happen. Being right appeals to a lower, more primitive need. Doing what is right requires a higher level of enlightenment and effort. We always seem to gravitate towards the primitive, instinctual behaviors. #6: lol... my point exactly. |
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