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Are Dell and Microsoft Out of Ideas? | |
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| Time: 20:39 EST/01:39 GMT | News Source: Red Herring | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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Dell CEO Out, Microsoft Vista fails to impress. It’s official. The Microsoft-Dell duo that tore up the latter half of the 1990s is showing its age. On Wednesday, Dell replaced CEO Kevin Rollins with company founder Michael Dell as it warned its fourth-quarter earnings would fall below analyst estimates. On Tuesday, Microsoft introduced the consumer edition of Vista, the most irrelevant piece of software ever guaranteed by analysts to hit $100 gazillion in sales. | ||
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| #1 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 1/31/2007 8:46:14 PM |
| This has to be close to one of the worst pieces of 'journalism' I've seen in a long time. |
| #2 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 1/31/2007 9:28:12 PM |
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#1
Then why did you post it? |
| #3 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 1/31/2007 9:45:29 PM |
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Because articles like this make for great debate. If you're looking for pro-Microsoft all good news all the time articles, check out the Microsoft Press Release web site.
I was going to write an epic, ketchum style rebuttal to this article, but then my mind began to wander, I started thinking about Paris Hilton and my hands became occupied with something other than the keyboard. Anyways, I'm really tired now... This post was edited by chrishedlund on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 21:54. |
| #4 By 125 (64.46.1.14) at 1/31/2007 10:45:03 PM |
| tasteless |
| #5 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 1/31/2007 11:07:03 PM |
| I wouldn't know astorrs, but I'll take your word for it... |
| #6 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at 2/1/2007 7:08:47 AM |
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#3
I find it strange that you get turned on by collie faced, wonky eyed, herpes infected whores. But whatever turns your crank - maybe it is some kind of weird fetish. |
| #7 By 9589 (66.56.135.191) at 2/1/2007 7:36:49 AM |
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Red Herring - I thought that webzine and magazine died . . .
After reading this article, it should have! |
| #8 By 8556 (12.207.97.148) at 2/1/2007 9:43:38 AM |
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MS is far from running out of ideas. Once users learn what's in Vista,and how to utilize the improvements, they will recognize it as being far from irrelevant.
Dell is another story. Much of Dell's ideas have focused on how to reduce their costs. Dell's payback was mid-term profit growth, poorer customer service, and cheap system designs with dumbed down parts used wherever possible. Dell has a long way to go to overcome the "Yugo" of PCs image they created for themselves with poor phone support for consumers. Buying Alienware indicates that Dell did not believe in their own Engineering enough to build a high end PC without the guts looking like someone stuck a six inch heat pipe on a $300 Dell PC's processor. MS will be around for a long time, putting out new products and borrowing from others ideas where they see a growth area. |
| #9 By 31608 (190.72.133.157) at 2/1/2007 10:25:44 AM |
| Dell sucks... I ordered a 20" monitor December 7 and I'm still waiting for it! I hate Dell. |
| #10 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 2/1/2007 2:28:48 PM |
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MS is not out of ideas; the problem is that they do not forward "ideas" into commercial available programs. Vista is an interesting evolution over Xp but it has nothing to do with what S envisioned at the beginning. We are still using a desktop that, in spite of the many improvements, is still based on the same concept of WIndows XX. I am tired of "Start menu" and "windows" that open in the desktop. This is what I would like to use:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/features/2003/06-27ciw_l.jpg Just my opinion of course. I know there are people who prefer to use their OS in "Classic" view so opinions differ. |
| #11 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 2/2/2007 9:54:32 AM |
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#10, Whoa... that is a cool image. I do think you are right on and I also think that operating systems "must" evolve in this direction.
We have a saying around here: "The best business applications are those that never have to be used..." - by that I mean, applications must "push" finalized business information as "products" to users and in ways that are relevant to the tasks they are performing. Data, documents, and media, that are normal function of any business process, must be reduced to products that may be used to make better decisions, or conduct more effective interventions. In our company we achieve this by building personally relevant pages for users that house finalized information products that are both visual and linear and that they can drill into, search, query and export in many formats. They are the results of analysis against the data and documents that are generated by many others and they are real-time. By pushing these products to users - desktops, email, mobile devices and other applications - like Extranets, one can deliver what people need and in a way that is already "finalized" The image you share takes this to the next level and the environment is entirely heterogeneous - on screen items may be made up of many things from many places. I think you are dean-on in where this should all go. Try as we might to replicate this, it is still very hard to develop similar functionality within current environments. Thanks, very much for posting this! |
| #12 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 2/2/2007 12:44:02 PM |
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Thanks #11. There is also a video about it located at:
http://emo.toastednet.org/iex_lh/Demos/Microsoft.CIW.Prototype.Demo-UXE.wmv In the video the OS (?) is shown running on the "Broadbench", the widescreen envisioned by Bill Gates few years ago. The prototype was part of Microsoft CIW. The site is located at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/ciw/gallery.mspx but now the demos use a more "Longhorn/Vista" UI while the above mentioned video started floating around before PDC 2003 so it seems that MS is choosing a more conservative approach, again! Let us hope that more creative minds will take over the development of "Vienna". This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, February 02, 2007 at 15:12. |
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