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pianoman

pianoman

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i thought this was interesting and funny... from today's washington post:

"[A] demonstration of voice recognition technology failed onstage as an executive attempted to write a Microsoft Word document with voice commands.

'Dear Mom,' he said. The program typed, 'Dear Aunt.' As he tried to delete the mistake, the voice technology wrote a bizarre, nonsensical string of words: 'so double the killer delete select all.'"
 
"so double the killer delete select all.'"

Is MS trying to activate their sleeper cells?

All your base are belong to us.
 
I have to become the full-time champion of innovation.

Steve Ballmer:
"I have to become the full-time champion of innovation."

That is going to be interesting. Can't wait to see the results.

Does anybody know what kind of company Microsoft is nowadays? It seems like they have lost focus and they are not really doing anything right. Just my opinion, I don't really know how the xBox is doing, but I hear people just talk about how they are waiting fot either the Wii or the PS3.

Windows is a joke, and they are looking for other areas in which to force their way into, that apparently or obviously they have no clue about and Ballmer is the innovator now. Can anybody name a technology innovated by MS?:eek:
 
Steve Ballmer said:
I have to become the full-time champion of innovation.
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Or, as translated by Microsoft's voice recognition technology:

"Tip useful info projector optional squeeze scroll reflexes."
 
MacAficionado said:
Steve Ballmer:
"I have to become the full-time champion of innovation."

Good luck with that Stevie.
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MacAficionado said:
Can anybody name a technology innovated by MS?
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IJ Reilly said:
Or, as translated by Microsoft's voice recognition technology:

"Tip useful info projector optional squeeze scroll reflexes."
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Perhaps they are innovating the English language. Good thing, because I was getting pretty fed up with making sense. :rolleyes:

I mean, I was triangle federal lips and her membrane.
Sounds like I have Tourrette's.
Wait, is that right, Ballmer?
 
To me this article clearly confirms that Microsoft does not know it's ass from its elbow. Ballmer is complete waste of space and they have nothing on the horizon that comes close to being "innovative."

This isn't me being anti-MS,so much but every single thing I read and hear about that company shows it's dropping further and further behind in its battles with competitors and between its own employees.

They have the money to turn it around but give it a few more years with monkeys at the helm and that company will crash. Maybe not to the bottom, but it will crash.
 
AlBDamned said:
To me this article clearly confirms that Microsoft does not know it's ass from its elbow. Ballmer is complete waste of space and they have nothing on the horizon that comes close to being "innovative."

This isn't me being anti-MS,so much but every single thing I read and hear about that company shows it's dropping further and further behind in its battles with competitors and between its own employees.

They have the money to turn it around but give it a few more years with monkeys at the helm and that company will crash. Maybe not to the bottom, but it will crash.
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This is the big difference between Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft owns a license to print money with Windows and Office. This means they've got the ability to capitalize projects with almost no hope of making a profit, such as Xbox and Zune. Apple OTOH would be drubbed by every market analyst from here to Timbuktu if they failed to turn a profit immediately on any product they released. The difference can be seen is in the amount of discipline the two companies show in the development and release of new products. Apple has to get it right the first time. Microsoft, maybe never.

Or as Steve Ballmer would put it, "Disposed length drawn walnuts decanter sherry placed flows."
 
IJ Reilly said:
Or as Steve Ballmer would put it, "Disposed length drawn walnuts decanter sherry placed flows."
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:D :D :D :D WTF??

Where did that happen?! Link?
 
AndyR said:
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=851c886e-92ac-40df-9b54-a89f0aa68bc1&f=00&fg=email

Here's a link to MSNBC broadcast of the screwup. Kinda funny :)
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Kinda funny in the way that the page says... "To use this product, you need to install free software. This product requires Microsoft© Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft© Media Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 6. To download these free software applications, click the links below and follow the on-screen instructions."
 
someguy said:
Perhaps they are innovating the English language.
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-someguy

Actually, they are creating their own. When they get it popularized and everybody speaks it, they'll force, at PowerPoint, everypody to pay a license fee, or face execution by GeekSquad.

Here's an exerpt from a conversation overheard in the boardroom at Redmond Friday Night:

Ballmer:"Narg fez bek ogg boog!"
Unknown Patsy:"Ezz faz arg oz?"
Ballmer: "Ekk bog ozz foos!"
Unknown Patsy: "Nogg ekk? Berr ag foz bek."
Ballmer: "Farg nak BOZZ FNARK!" <throws chair>
 
MacAficionado said:
Steve Ballmer:
"I have to become the full-time champion of innovation."
Just my opinion, I don't really know how the xBox is doing, but I hear people just talk about how they are waiting fot either the Wii or the PS3.
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The XBOX is doing fairly well. One of Sony's top executives even admits that he likes playing on the 360. I think Sony's PS3 is the joke here. $600+ console and their reason for such a high price? Pure arrogance. "It's $600 because it's the PS3" It be more worth it to buy the Wii and the 360 over the PS3. The PS3 has been plagued with problem rumors, problematic specs, and questionable performance (granted those are just rumors, but Sony is being extremely hush-hush about the PS3).

They did good with XBOX Live becoming the number one online paid gaming service.
 
liketom said:
aricher said:
it would be soo funny if Steve, whilst doing the demo for iLife 07 had that picture in the iphoto library:D
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Steve Balmer is such an idiot:rolleyes: Has anyone ever seen that video of him on m$'s 25 birthday or whatever it was, screaming his lungs out:eek: He apparently had to have surgery on his vocal cords after shouting "windoze windoze windoze" at a conference in Japan:D
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That just puts a big smile on my face. It's really amazing that a company can lose billions over multiple products just to get their foot in the door.
 
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