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Microsoft business model is over
Microsoft business model is over - Marke****ch
"If Intel can provide users with powerful little systems for $99 and has been pushing prices lower and lower over the years, why can't Microsoft? Intel makes elaborate hardware in billion-dollar factories. Microsoft stamps out a disk. " http://www.marke****ch.com/news/story/Microsoft-business-model-over/story.aspx?guid={4C81119F-100F-4D73-95AD-80424E949DC1}&dist=SecMostRead |
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Microsoft business model is over
On a sunny day (Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:58:05 -0400) it happened Yousuf Khan
wrote in : Microsoft business model is over - Marke****ch "If Intel can provide users with powerful little systems for $99 and has been pushing prices lower and lower over the years, why can't Microsoft? Intel makes elaborate hardware in billion-dollar factories. Microsoft stamps out a disk. " http://www.marke****ch.com/news/story/Microsoft-business-model-over/story.aspx?guid={4C81119F-100F-4D73-95AD-80424E949DC1}&dist=S ecMostRead Exactly, making Mona Lisa was art, the reproductions in magazines are not. Copyright laws should be changed. But fools will keep paying for crap and bloat. The public should be protected against Microsoft, their OS is worth less then 10 cents, and they would have to pay up for all the productive hours lost with watching blue screens. Asus did it right with the eeePC and Xandros Linux. Intel processor, almost free soft. All we need no is to educate the public. |
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Microsoft business model is over
Yousuf Khan writes:
Microsoft business model is over - Marke****ch "If Intel can provide users with powerful little systems for $99 and has been pushing prices lower and lower over the years, why can't Microsoft? Intel makes elaborate hardware in billion-dollar factories. Microsoft stamps out a disk. " http://www.marke****ch.com/news/story/Microsoft-business-model-over/story.aspx?guid={4C81119F-100F-4D73-95AD-80424E949DC1}&dist=SecMostRead *Sigh* People will continue to pay for what they consider to be providing value. As it is, the hardware itself has lost it's edge as the differentiator, and today it's the software content that's the "killer app". As for PC's, the majority of people don't buy them to 'play' with - they tend to buy them to help them solve a problem, e.g. talking to their daughter in another state using Skype or making spreadsheets to handle their private finances. Similar example: When GSM phones first came around - some 15 years ago - Nokia just had a better radio than Ericsson, and this was a killer at the time. Magazines did the "cellar staircase" test routinely to see which models had the best reception, and Nokia won hands down. Nokia spent quite some time, money and effort to make their own radio, since it was a differentiator. As time went by, the other handset providers learned to catch up with Nokia, and it ceased to be a differentiator in the market. Nokia stopped doing their own radio and bought from 3rd parties. Today, Nokia hardly make their own hardware (they've outsourced all ASIC design). It's software features and design which is the differentiator in the market, so they have moved their focus to that instead. The wheel of innovation (and reincarnation) turns... Kai -- Kai Harrekilde-Petersen khp(at)harrekilde(dot)dk |
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Microsoft business model is over
On Mar 9, 6:34*pm, Kai Harrekilde-Petersen wrote:
*Sigh* People will continue to pay for what they consider to be providing value. *As it is, the hardware itself has lost it's edge as the differentiator, and today it's the software content that's the "killer app". As for PC's, the majority of people don't buy them to 'play' with - they tend to buy them to help them solve a problem, e.g. talking to their daughter in another state using Skype or making spreadsheets to handle their private finances. It's looking like to do all of those tasks, like Skype, email, browsing, spreadsheets, etc. are mostly available through Linux already. So it's looking like Windows is no longer necessary to do these tasks. So Windows might get driven up-market to a specialized niche. You'll probably still need Windows to play games, so gamers might be willing to pay that premium, but almost nobody else. Plus, Linux booting up on a ROM would be a lot quicker to start than Windows. If you need to get a task done quickly, why wait several minutes while Windows settles down? Yousuf Khan |
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Microsoft business model is over
On Mar 9, 6:13*pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
Asus did it right with the eeePC and Xandros Linux. Intel processor, almost free soft. All we need no is to educate the public. All you need to do is to tell me what to think? Nothing new there. I'm using Vista, XP, Fedora. Cygwin-X is no longer a piece of crap, so, with sufficiently beefy hardware, secure shell, and remote desktop, I finally have what I expected all along: everything at my fingertips at the click of a mouse, all served up to me by the Aero interface. No kvm, no virtualization. Microsoft did its damage. It's done and it isn't really worth talking about any more. More people need to get clued-up about not storing data in Microsoft proprietary formats, but, other than that, there's not much left to yell about in the desktop world. Linux will never keep up with proprietary encoders. I might wish it otherwise, but that's just the way it is. Extremely low-power mobile devices are a different universe. Maybe they will be the death of lots of things, but not yet. Robert. |
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Microsoft business model is over
Robert Myers wrote:
Jan Panteltje wrote: Asus did it right with the eeePC and Xandros Linux. Intel processor, almost free soft. All we need no is to educate the public. All you need to do is to tell me what to think? Nothing new there. Reading comprehension problems, Robert? Since when is education "telling you what to think"? Microsoft did its damage. It's done and it isn't really worth talking about any more. Wrong again. More people need to get clued-up about not storing data in Microsoft proprietary formats, but, other than that, there's not much left to yell about in the desktop world. Linux will never keep up with proprietary encoders. I might wish it otherwise, but that's just the way it is. Nonsense. |
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Microsoft business model is over
Yes, indeed. This is a top post.
I just took a look at this dude's profile. At the rate of 10-20 posts a day, I'm amazed he has time for me. Robert. On Mar 13, 9:20*am, chrisv wrote: Robert Myers wrote: Jan Panteltje wrote: Asus did it right with the eeePC and Xandros Linux. Intel processor, almost free soft. All we need no is to educate the public. All you need to do is to tell me what to think? *Nothing new there. Reading comprehension problems, Robert? *Since when is education "telling you what to think"? Microsoft did its damage. *It's done and it isn't really worth talking about any more. Wrong again. More people need to get clued-up about not storing data in Microsoft proprietary formats, but, other than that, there's not much left to yell about in the desktop world. *Linux will never keep up with proprietary encoders. *I might wish it otherwise, but that's just the way it is. Nonsense. |
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Microsoft business model is over
Robert Myers wrote:
Yes, indeed. This is a top post. I just took a look at this dude's profile. At the rate of 10-20 posts a day, I'm amazed he has time for me. Idiot. |
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