>Microsoft is really getting their shit together. Win8, if it's even a fraction of what is planned, is going to change things permanently. This is a good thing considering Steve Jobs seems to have given up on the desktop as of this most recent WWDC.
Honestly this kind of thing is exactly what makes me think they don't "have their shit together". They're going to run out and say "look everyone! We have a desktop OS that's slightly better than OSX!" right as most people have moved off desktops.
Seriously. Look at what most people do. How much time does the average computer user spend consuming? And how much time producing? Just from the hip I would put this at 80/20 but it might be even more slanted than that. So does Grandma really need a whole PC to email her bridge group and surf the web for recipes? And one that has a "reset this PC" button? Why does she need to know any of this stuff?
What Steve said wasn't that Mac will be giving up on the desktop. He was just acknowledging that in the future it's going to play a vastly smaller role. It's still going to need to be really good because those of us that produce on it will be powering the mobile/appliance devices. I don't want to develop on an iPad but I like consuming with it.
Microsoft just doesn't seem to grasp this somehow and keeps trying to win a battlefield that everyone else realizes will just get less relevant as time goes on. Are they just concentrating on business users? MS had them at NT.
You can say "oh but we've got that covered, look at the new <insert newest MS mobile OS here>" but it doesn't exist right now. All the buzz I see/hear is about iPhone, Anroid and Palm. Is MS really committed to mobile to the level they need to be? If it is I don't think they're getting it across very well.
Funny enough, MS does have a nice install base of a an appliance device: the X box. Are they planning an App store for it (not a game store, an app store)? Can I purchase songs that sync with my media player?
Honestly this kind of thing is exactly what makes me think they don't "have their shit together". They're going to run out and say "look everyone! We have a desktop OS that's slightly better than OSX!" right as most people have moved off desktops.
Seriously. Look at what most people do. How much time does the average computer user spend consuming? And how much time producing? Just from the hip I would put this at 80/20 but it might be even more slanted than that. So does Grandma really need a whole PC to email her bridge group and surf the web for recipes? And one that has a "reset this PC" button? Why does she need to know any of this stuff?
What Steve said wasn't that Mac will be giving up on the desktop. He was just acknowledging that in the future it's going to play a vastly smaller role. It's still going to need to be really good because those of us that produce on it will be powering the mobile/appliance devices. I don't want to develop on an iPad but I like consuming with it.
Microsoft just doesn't seem to grasp this somehow and keeps trying to win a battlefield that everyone else realizes will just get less relevant as time goes on. Are they just concentrating on business users? MS had them at NT.
You can say "oh but we've got that covered, look at the new <insert newest MS mobile OS here>" but it doesn't exist right now. All the buzz I see/hear is about iPhone, Anroid and Palm. Is MS really committed to mobile to the level they need to be? If it is I don't think they're getting it across very well.
Funny enough, MS does have a nice install base of a an appliance device: the X box. Are they planning an App store for it (not a game store, an app store)? Can I purchase songs that sync with my media player?