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What struck me as odd about Surface is MS is not a hardware vendor like Apple or Dell. Making a top-of-line bo

SCOTUS still screwed up. If using an API is fair use in one instance it is fair use in all instances. It also

In reply to jolla: In reality, probably nothing. Just marketing speak for the next round will be trash.

For my purposes, an M1 Mac is very intriguing as the software I need has Mac versions already. If I was lookin

Branding seems to be MS failure. If it is Windows blah it must run Windows applications be definition. So to r

My guess is the normal plateau is somewhat below the 2020 figures, probably about 3 to 4% lower. In the future

Why do I have a feeling this is likely shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic? Add features to Windows is mostly

I use the three major desktop OSes with regularity. Of the three Windows is the most confusing, least stable,

In reply to SWCetacean:The pundits think MS should mimic Apple but forget Apple is a hardware manufacturer fir

Other than web developers, I do not see a need for another Chromium based browser on a Linux box as general pu

Google and Facebook are definitely monopolies. Apple sort of is since they have a walled garden approach to th

You cannot be carbon neutral until the entire electrical grid is carbon neutral. All they are doing is a versi

In reply to nbplopes: I have been wondering why it's MS and Oracle sniffing and not others who seem more

All successful products 'scratch an itch' even if people do not immediately realize the itch is ther

Why does remind me of shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic?

In reply to HellcatM: Often MS has used its control of Windows to abuse competitors in various ways in the pa

My complaint is about branding, Windows has certain brand implications that people expect. Anything that does

Doing what a competitor does to ape the competitor is always a fools errand. Intel needs someone to keep them

Internal development means you have the internal staff to do all. It might mean you are a couple of years (may

In reply to thurrotcommentator:Agile as a mindset is good because at its core is communication between the use

In reply to ghostrider: "more like MS shuffling the deck-chairs" is more accurately "MS is still shuffling

In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:I doubt any of the numbers are terribly accurate. But unnerves the medicos is it is

Open sourcing W7 would probably hurt MS in unexpected ways, assuming they can actually open source all the cod

I agree sales have plateaued for PCs. I would expect sales to bounce around the average, some years a little b

The problem with any web browser no matter its backend is how to make it stand out with users so they will eve

I have 1 rule about computers - I own the hardware so what I am willing to share with anyone is my business on

In reply to ghostrider:Unfortunately I have to agree with you. IBM has been run by idiots for years and I have

In reply to skane2600:I would say the legacy of the toxic culture is a key factor. MS has not been a great inn

When the OS release road map is unknown that is a big deal to others such as OEMs, vendors, and users. What wi

Facebook and Twitter are in the dog house because of their censorship antics and unwillingness to be consisten

In reply to skane2600:Effectively an oversized tablet with a huge screen. I am not sure about the use case wit

It sounds like Windows is becoming the 'red headed' step child in MS. The major effort appears to Of

In reply to ahassall:It's not that the content isn't on the Internet; it is. But it takes some (not

In reply to skane2600:FB failing would also badly hurt the extremist fringes as they would not have a readily

In reply to yaddamaster:Amazon is not the retail killer most think it is. A careful analysis of most retail fa

In reply to Daekar:Banks and other financial service companies provide a useful service in handling money and

In reply to paul-thurrott:Consumers rely on their enthusiast friends and relatives for advice. With the ongoin

My take is feature updates should be at most once a year maybe even every two years. Security and bug fixes ne

Maybe MS will finally learn that users generally could careless about new features and just want their compute

My observation is MS has not been all that interested in the consumer market for some time now. Asking your le

In reply to provision l-3:Not sure what the OS is under the hood and how well it will run apps written for oth

They never learn. Annoying users is not good customer relations.

In reply to Waethorn:No

Just because I have someone's phone number does not mean they want me to have access to their account. Th

In reply to skane2600:If you were not around PCs in the 80s and early 90s you would not realize how rare they

In reply to warren:That is true about Windows now. However, I detected a bit of sarcasm in the post. Nadella i

Paul, I think you hit it out. The PC market will be dominated by the enterprise refresh cycles with occasional

In reply to hrlngrv:Basically a mature market for hardware and software with reasonable options for some impor

It looks like the market is stabilizing at about 260 million units per year. One should remember all markets e

In reply to tboggs13:Adds in an OS along with other data slurping activities is unacceptable FULL STOP. It doe

In reply to locust infested orchard inc:There is a key difference, MS is trying to leverage Windows usage to c

If I ran an OEM I would strongly consider advertising any Chromebooks in my line up hard and start installing

In reply to karma77police:"When Windows fails, entire MS empire will fail like there is not tomorrow." Bingo,

With this pattern recurring with variations every 6 months W10 is loser for home users. Just to much risk of s

In reply to solomonrex:The question for both Ginni and Nadella will they have the competence to seize the oppo

In reply to hrlngrv:Short answer to both questions: No. The only possible upgrade would be from a 32 bit proce

The real problem is the lack of a proper internal testing team. An internal team can develop test plans based

In reply to Hassan_Timite:MS has not learned 'Unix Way' of having important parts of the OS being mo

In reply to Ulfvar:Depending on how it's done on a website, the action could go either way. In an OS, the

In reply to JustMe:I just tried with Opera with adblockers on and did not see a banner.

In reply to hrlngrv:It is still the owner's hardware and the owner is the final authority not any vendor

I think the bigger problem for Office is it is a mature product. Thus, there are very few new features that th

At first glance this sounds stupid. But something about using Facebook (or Google) to long into a foreign site

In reply to hrlngrv:Depending on your needs the OS may be totally irrelevant. You are correct that the OS is a

In reply to hrlngrv:One of the real problems with Windows is the lack of a builtin application that will handl

What were the trends from initial release? Also, some of the 'improvements' are stated in a meaningl

In reply to unkinected:The key is not to be first to market but to be first to market with a usable device and

In reply to ghostrider:My observation is very few Windows users ever loved it, tolerated it yes. The primary r