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Ballmer: Microsoft-Powered Tablets Are 'Job One Urgency'
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id like to see a more fully functional tablet.
if they can make it pretty looking, give it a usb port, and set apps (to preserve user quality and not produce laggy tablets) they could easily take a hold on the market.
euh, somebody needs to figure out a way to make writing on a tablet nice...
if they can make it pretty looking, give it a usb port, and set apps (to preserve user quality and not produce laggy tablets) they could easily take a hold on the market.
euh, somebody needs to figure out a way to make writing on a tablet nice...
Just one more item to add to those "MicroSoft" flagship stores.
BTW, how are they doing, hmmm? There is nothing like a "Ballmerized" product that get your wallet sizzling.
BTW, how are they doing, hmmm? There is nothing like a "Ballmerized" product that get your wallet sizzling.
I think if MS is to have any moderate success with their products on tablets, they'll adapt Windows Phone 7 to tablet, just as Apple did with iOS, HP is doing with WebOS, and various companies are with Android.
A desktop OS has no place on any tablet. It just plain sucks. I think the last 10 years of abismal sales speak well for that. Outside of a couple niche markets, tablets based on Windows have failed miserably. Windows 7 is no game changer. Having spent a couple weeks with a Windows 7 equipped $3000 Motion Computing tablet, I gave it back, scratching my head as to what the point of it was.
A desktop OS has no place on any tablet. It just plain sucks. I think the last 10 years of abismal sales speak well for that. Outside of a couple niche markets, tablets based on Windows have failed miserably. Windows 7 is no game changer. Having spent a couple weeks with a Windows 7 equipped $3000 Motion Computing tablet, I gave it back, scratching my head as to what the point of it was.
Dang it, can't those guys come up with ANYTHING original?? That thing looks just like an iPad! Apple announces shiny touch screen phones and every other manufacturer copies them. Apple announces iPad -- and now we get this. Honestly, do something original people. At least try!
MS is always a bit lagging behind. Look at the iPhone. Ballmer laughed loudly as they asked him about it. Now all major smartphone manufactors let their copy-machines running crazy, all build Smartphones in an iPhone-style (big touchscreen, easy OS etc.).
The tablet thing. Well, Apple was not first, but let's face it: The iPad was the first tablet really being popular and not just another shelf warmer.
The UMPCs from MS failed completely, Zune's market share is very little compared to iPod's... If MS did not have Windows and Office, well then who knows...
The tablet thing. Well, Apple was not first, but let's face it: The iPad was the first tablet really being popular and not just another shelf warmer.
The UMPCs from MS failed completely, Zune's market share is very little compared to iPod's... If MS did not have Windows and Office, well then who knows...
What makes you think that? In the consumer space, people buy PCs with Windows because that's the only operating system that you can easily get on a cheap PC. In the enterprise space, it's compatibility.
But for a tablet, nobody will buy it because it's made by Microsoft. Maybe ten years ago, maybe even five years, but not now. In the computer space, if people have the choice between a product made by the people who make the iPod and the iPhone, or a product made by the people who make Windows that they have to suffer at work, everyone's choice will be the iPad, made by Apple. Look at the Zune, nobody bought that.
In the Enterprise space, well there is Exchange compatible mail, and I can access all my (Windows) work applications from an iPad. To compete with that, Windows will have to port Internet Explorer 6 which all the companies are using for backwards compatibility.
The key words are: "looking forward"
Translation:
waiting for Godot
vaporware
wishes and dreams
Ballmer is an Idiot
I hate this guy. He made a big deal during WWDC about what a mess someone made about trying to take notes on an iPad during a discussion, like it was somehow a failing of the iPad. I sat in on a meeting two days ago and took 6 pages of notes on the iPad and was able to check out multiple creditor filings from multiple sources over 3G. Everyone was amazed.
Ballmer is an idiot. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
I hate this guy. He made a big deal during WWDC about what a mess someone made about trying to take notes on an iPad during a discussion, like it was somehow a failing of the iPad. I sat in on a meeting two days ago and took 6 pages of notes on the iPad and was able to check out multiple creditor filings from multiple sources over 3G. Everyone was amazed.
Ballmer is an idiot. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
When I hear or see anything involving Microsoft I am
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzuning out
To be fair all I use is MS Office as it is the best out there, but the rest o their stuff is not up to this centuries standard.
Always late, nothing new, nothing functions userfriendly
special post ending sound: BING
Honestly I see the price drop as reflective of competition with the B&N Nook. Serious e-Book reader were never going to ONLY have the iPad anyways. I have a Nook and my iPad is coming on August 12th. Once B&N dropped the price for the WiFi-only to $150 I was sold. This really has nothing to do with Apple.
Pfft. With the Windows/Office lockdown racket on cruise control, my mom could have grown MS to its current size. It was hardly due to Ballmer's clever navigation. The guy doesn't have an original thought in his head.
Microsoft loves to show off half-baked products that are nowhere close to shipping (if ever). It's called FUD.
Note that one video is merely that, a video, while the other is a demo for an actual product you can buy.
Good grief, I'm tired of all the mewling about Courier. It was never an actual product, people! It was a glorified PowerPoint presentation of what "could have been" - a wild fantasy dreamed up in some thinktank inside the bowels of MS. A demo many of us could have created ourselves.
Ah, and the brainwashed cultist card is thrown yet again. Just a matter of time I suppose.
It amazes me that no one ever refers to Microsoft users as "brainwashed," despite their 90% market share.
lol @ the apple fans
Not as neat as you think.
That experience has been available for a long time.. why have you not already jumped on it?
Exactly!
Microsoft has had their head up their ass about tablets for ten years now.
Now Apple have made a success, Microsoft announces their new tablet strategy: Head *further* up ass.
C.
Microsoft will continue with one fail after another. Windows 7 being decent is just an anomaly. The problem with Balmer is that he views Apple as the enemy. Look at his remarks about Apple selling more iPads than he would have liked. Sure, he would have liked ZERO because MS has no product for this new category. But to wish failure upon a competitor instead of spurring your own organization to innovate is sad, bitter, and nothing more than a page out of the Republican Party's handbook.
Bye bye Microsoft. Your irrelevance increases each day.
Bye bye Microsoft. Your irrelevance increases each day.
You're kidding, right? You think Apple didn't have a finished product in the iPad by January?
"seems to be in demand"???!! hahahaha. quite the understatment. sounds like MS fanboi jealousy
And the "business space" is exactly where the iPad has been phenomenally successful. Fastest adoption rate imaginable. Hospitals, engineers, researchers, mechanics, salesmen, enterprise applications, etc. etc. Do you even read the business news??
That ship has already sailed, hasn't it? Apple created and defined the mobile tablet market with the iPad. MS doesn't have any hope of being anything other than a niche player. It's iPod all over again - is there any commercially viable alternative to the iPod? Of course not. And no one will be able to successfully compete with iPad, either. People know quality and top-notch user experience when they see it - no one wants anything other than Apple for a tablet!
As long as Ballmer is running Microsoft I'll keep my $'s invested in aapl. He's the best thing to ever happen to Apple.
Thanks again Steve!
cheers
JohnG
Well, probably second best, right? After SJ.
As a consumer, I'd like to see Apple challenged by competition. It makes them better. But in terms of tablets, I don't see credible competition coming from Microsoft.
We will see Android tablets, but unless Google themselves refine the hardware, these could become a mess. And Google have no interest in hardware development.
I really hope that HP gets its act together and creates something good with Palm's WebOS. It will be the first time that someone other than Apple, has had both hardware development and software development in the same hands.
C.
Indeed. Who will be the next Apple? It certainly won't be the Microsoft-beholden of the world (HP, Dell, etc.).
Would it even be possible for an upstart with strong industrial design and an innovative new operating system to even survive, let alone make a significant impact?
Who will be the new Apple as Apple becomes fat and lazy and unimaginative? (An inevitability demonstrated with aplomb by Microsoft - not that Microsoft was ever actually imaginative.)
I fear the days of "two guys in a garage" are long behind us (never to return) in the computer hardware/OS department.
What came first? An egg in 2009 or a chicken in 2010?
The reason why posted was to argue against those, who claimed that Microsoft stole Apple's iPad design. The fact is that Microsoft demoed a prototype that looked very similar to the iPad from over HALF A YEAR LATER. There is no point of any hatred towards MS on this point. They didn't steal the design.
You don't get it. I called 'brainwashed mob' people, who blamed MS with stealing the iPad's design, despite the fact that one came half a year before the next. But I said that fairly clearly, some people just don't want to listen. If people accuse one company to stealing another's design, then obviously it doesn't matter, whether the product makes it or not. So no, MS nor HP did steal the design of the iPad. Besides, Apple Inc is notorious for litigating the living hell out of anything having the smallest reason to sue. Don't people trust Apple Inc that it can stand up for its own interest?
Besides, if that tablet looks anything, it is a flat tablet with a screen. You might blame MS for coming up with something like a large iPod Touch. But you don't want to claim that the iPad is just a large iPod Touch, do you?
The reason why posted was to argue against those, who claimed that Microsoft stole Apple's iPad design. The fact is that Microsoft demoed a prototype that looked very similar to the iPad from over HALF A YEAR LATER. There is no point of any hatred towards MS on this point. They didn't steal the design.
I'm not going to argue otherwise. But again, it was Microsoft preceding Apple about some marketing ideas. "Apple - inspired by Microsoft". There you go, do the MS trashing now! Whatever they do, it's good enough for Apple's marketing team to re-use as advertising ideas...
It amazes me that no one ever refers to Microsoft users as "brainwashed," despite their 90% market share.
You don't get it. I called 'brainwashed mob' people, who blamed MS with stealing the iPad's design, despite the fact that one came half a year before the next. But I said that fairly clearly, some people just don't want to listen. If people accuse one company to stealing another's design, then obviously it doesn't matter, whether the product makes it or not. So no, MS nor HP did steal the design of the iPad. Besides, Apple Inc is notorious for litigating the living hell out of anything having the smallest reason to sue. Don't people trust Apple Inc that it can stand up for its own interest?
Besides, if that tablet looks anything, it is a flat tablet with a screen. You might blame MS for coming up with something like a large iPod Touch. But you don't want to claim that the iPad is just a large iPod Touch, do you?
HP now says Slate tablet will be geared toward enterprise market
The never-ending saga of the HP Slate tablet took another turn today, when HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley told a tech conference that what was once thought to be an iPad competitor is going to be targeted to the enterprise.
It appears that the Windows 7-based tablets that HP has planned (if there are any more than the Slate 500 in the works) will be marketed to businesses, and its tablets running webOS (acquired with HPs purchase of Palm a couple of months ago) will be focused on the consumer market. Thats probably good news to Apple, since theres no indication that a webOS tablet is imminent, giving the iPad more time to increase its hold on the niche.
It may not be as good news for Microsoft, since a major manufacturer like HP has decided to avoid releasing a Windows 7-based tablet to the wider consumer audience. It also keeps those whove been waiting for an alternative tablet in a holding pattern, eager for a big name company to release details on an Android tablet that will come out sooner than later and finally challenge the iPad in the mass market.
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source: Sean Portnoy , ZDNet.com
The never-ending saga of the HP Slate tablet took another turn today, when HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley told a tech conference that what was once thought to be an iPad competitor is going to be targeted to the enterprise.
It appears that the Windows 7-based tablets that HP has planned (if there are any more than the Slate 500 in the works) will be marketed to businesses, and its tablets running webOS (acquired with HPs purchase of Palm a couple of months ago) will be focused on the consumer market. Thats probably good news to Apple, since theres no indication that a webOS tablet is imminent, giving the iPad more time to increase its hold on the niche.
It may not be as good news for Microsoft, since a major manufacturer like HP has decided to avoid releasing a Windows 7-based tablet to the wider consumer audience. It also keeps those whove been waiting for an alternative tablet in a holding pattern, eager for a big name company to release details on an Android tablet that will come out sooner than later and finally challenge the iPad in the mass market.
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source: Sean Portnoy , ZDNet.com
And Jobs is a Democrat too so I don't know why that guy was trying to spew that political hate.
The source of all evil is not Republicans. And that business practice that guy was talking about is out of the liberal handbook. Geez. Talk about trying to revise history.