[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 @ 08:10 +0000, Mark Benson said:

> On 6 Nov 2006, at 06:46, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 
> >    Mark Benson said:
> >> Tell em where they can stick their
> >>> company and go join someone like Google...
> >
> > Google is IMHO and experience even worse.
> 
> I doubt any corporation is any better than another these days. 

You have to remember that you only hear about the most powerful or the
worst.

There are lot's of corporations, even very large ones, that you never
hear about because they just go about their business in relatively
normal fashion, don't seek self-promotion, and stay out of trouble.

There are hundreds of thousands of corporations, and I doubt most of
them are necessarily bad. A lot of them are incorporated individuals
even, or small businesses.

> Can I qualify that to *some* people like what he is offering. The
> value of 'some' is decreasing, and every bad VIsta news story makes it
> shrink a little further.

I think too that as lusers get smarter, they are starting to balk at
things they might have accepted before.

At least, I hope so.

> There seems to be this dumbass culture at MS now that everyone is  
> scared of Balmer. The guys a dumb-ass, it's a surprise he doesn't tie  

He's also clueless about people and business. I know a lot of people
think he's an OK business man, but I submit he is not. The only reason
he's doing OK now is because it is hard to fail when you have the market
to yourself.

Put him at the head of a company that has to compete, and he'd fail
miserably.

Microsoft has never, from the beginning, competed fairly with anyone.

Regarding people, as lusers get smarter, I think Ballmer's attitude and
focus on getting away with as much as he can may backfire.

> Even for it's few early problems, the 360 is a kick-ass piece of  
> hardware. What's more it got to market a full year before the PS3.

For a console, yes. However, in terms of some of the negatives it has
had on the gaming industry, it isn't that great.

> There is a theme that you may not have noticed you raise a few times  
> over. Lack of competition. In hardware they have a whole market full  
> of other vendors to compete with who all produce good product, in  
> games consoles they have stiff competition from the likes of Sony and  
> Nintendo. In OSs they have... very little. This breed complacency,  
> which makes people sloppy and the product lack-luster, dates slip  
> etc. Sound familiar?

Take a look at the stability fixes for Win2k and WinXP. I'd say that's a
direct result of the rise of Linux and MacOS.

Microsoft *can* fix things, they just won't unless prodded heavily.

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