craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | microsoft, software, technologyI'm inspired by BillG's ambition and the revolution he drove with Microsoft, and his philanthropic endeavors post Microsoft.
Quoted: As Bill Gates moves on, it will be up to his successors to master the challenges of the Internet or watch Microsoft’s wealth and stature in the industry steadily erode.
Quoted: Mr. Gates and his company have fundamentally shaped how people think about competition in many industries where technology plays a central role. Today, there are more than one billion copies of the Windows operating system on PCs around the world.
As for what's next...
Quoted: Mr. Mundie said Microsoft is preparing for a widening world of both cloud computing and “client” machines, not only personal computers but also cellphones, cars, game consoles and televisions, all running Microsoft software.
“The next big platform is the union of the clients and the cloud,” he said.
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2009 | business, software, microsoft
Some positive news on IE8!
Quoted: Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 again trounced rival browsers in a test of their malware-blocking abilities, catching 81% of attack-code-infected sites, according to testing company NSS Labs.
Quoted: IE8's improvement, and its dominance over competitors, could make some users reconsider decisions to abandon Microsoft's browser for one of its challengers. "Should people rethink that decision?" Moy asked. "By [this] data, absolutely."
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 29 2009 | windows, microsoft, software
Wow. Great write-up of Windows 7...
Quoted: Windows Client division is now best example and model for every other Microsoft division to follow. Windows 7 Beta 1 is remarkable resurrection. From the crash called Windows Vista comes a phoenix. Management clearly is the difference between Seven and Vista.
Quoted: Under former Platform and Services division president Jim Allchin's leadership, or lack of it, Windows ran to ruin. Windows Vista is a management, development and marketing disaster. The product has done irreparable harm to Microsoft's corporate identity and to the Windows brand. Windows Vista is a failure by every milestone that matters: Performance, compatibility, usability and adoption.
Quoted: Now contrast Vista development to Windows 7. The management team has done what a year ago I would have asserted as impossible: Fix Vista's problems and reinvent Windows. Seven is a solid and exciting product, even in beta.
Quoted: Only focused, disciplined management could produce from the Vista train wreck a better locomotive. Seven is much more dramatically different than the modest makeover I expected.
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 08 2008 | microsoft, windows, software
It's about freakin' time Microsoft did something to improve their situation at retail. I've written before about how depressing it is to walk in to a place like Best Buy only to see just about every PC in some embarrasing condition of disrepair. There is usually some kind of error dialog, or 'can't connect' or security warning on the screen.
Best Buy has also started baking blatant ads in to their Wallpaper, and even more recently putting strange orphan windows with movie trailers or something else that conjures images of another kind of 'trailer'... specifically the double-wide kind.
Compared to the retail experience at the Apple Store, if the Apple Store is like Nordstrom, buying a PC is like shopping in the 99¢ store.
Quoted: NEW YORK - As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases.
Quoted: These gurus will be answering questions about PCs and Microsoft products, as well as giving demos of how the company's products work together — help designed to get them thinking Microsoft.
Quoted: The move is more likely to strike up comparisons with the rival that has portrayed Microsoft as unhip and out of touch — Apple Inc., which runs "Genius Bars" in its stores to answer questions about Macs and iPods. The Genius Bar also offers technical support on already-purchased products, which the Microsoft reps will not do.
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 06 2008 | microsoft, windows, software
There was criticism of the Seinfeld choice before the ads even came out. Now the 1st bizarre ad has only fueled the critics.
Quoted: Faced with Windows Vista’s image problem, Microsoft has been working for more than a year to change the experience of buying and using computers that run its software.
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 30 2008 | microsoft, apple, software
This is a glimmer of light for Microsoft marketing... finally something that should resonate with people and help public perception.
Quoted: People have been talking about Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” all day. What did they do? They demoed a “future operating system” to end users, got their feedback, usually positive, and then told them it was actually Windows Vista.
Quoted: This is the first marketing in some time that made me think Microsoft’s marketing department had a clue about how to deal with its perception problem. Amazing to me that it took so long.
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