Guest #1 July 1, 2010 Story The gist of it is that MSFT's attempt to be 'hip' is completely lost on the generation it's trying to appeal to. mh ."The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 3 #2 July 1, 2010 Quote Epic Fail: MSFT Pills "Kin" After 48 Days on Market Ohhh.. you mean "pulls"! I clicked on your thread because the cryptic title made me think it was about medicine. Either that or I figured you had another commentary on Muslims. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #3 July 1, 2010 Quote Story The gist of it is that MSFT's attempt to be 'hip' is completely lost on the generation it's trying to appeal to. mh . If Microsoft wasn't going to do, VZW was going to help them. I read on another "blog" that internal numbers were showing that VZW managed to sell 500 across the country during that time....Given that, I give props to Microsoft for pulling the plug, and rolling that team over to the Windows Phone 7 project...hopefully, they'll share all the dirty details of failure so that 7 comes out shiny.So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #4 July 1, 2010 Quote Story The gist of it is that MSFT's attempt to be 'hip' is completely lost on the generation it's trying to appeal to. mh . Yeah.... yesterday in the lab was "interesting"No Gawain, there are a bunch more than that out there. It was an interesting project...... but from what I saw... you dont market to the young and price it like a full featured phone with a ton of apps, that is NOT what it was designed to do. Oh and Mark dear.. get it right it's M$FT... you are slipping Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #5 July 1, 2010 Quote Quote Story The gist of it is that MSFT's attempt to be 'hip' is completely lost on the generation it's trying to appeal to. mh . No Gawain, there are a bunch more than that out there. Oh...501? Quote Oh and Mark dear.. get it right it's M$FT... you are slipping I think Steve Jobs at Apple has an issue with that... So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FreeflyChile 0 #6 July 1, 2010 Quote The gist of it is that MSFT's attempt to be 'hip' is completely lost on the generation it's trying to appeal to. mh . I don't know, the Xbox 360 seems to be doing OK. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #7 July 1, 2010 having never even heard of it in a sea of iPhone and Droid (20 different kinds) ads, it's no surprise it failed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #8 July 1, 2010 Quote Quote The gist of it is that MSFT's attempt to be 'hip' is completely lost on the generation it's trying to appeal to. mh . I don't know, the Xbox 360 seems to be doing OK. Well there are a few other things tooJust for Mark Microsoft by the numbers Microsoft Blog Admin 25 Jun 2010 12:30 PM Comments 0 [UPDATE: We made an error in the reported figure for Apple’s Net Income in our original post – the cited source had the correct number but we somehow got a wrong number into the body of my post. This post has been updated with the correct figure.] You probably saw the news this week that we’ve sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses in 8 months. That's more than 600,000 per day. And, perhaps fittingly for a product called Windows 7, it adds up to 7 copies every second of every day since launch. As a communications guy, I’m generally most comfortable with words. But since Microsoft is a pretty numbers-driven company, the Windows 7 milestone got me thinking about some *other* numbers, too. Of course, numbers are only one dimension of a story. And we live in a hyper-competitive industry, with loads of challenges to go along with loads of opportunity. All the same, with Windows 7, Office 2010, Bing, Xbox 360, Kinect, Windows Phone 7, our cloud platform, and many other products, services and happy customers, 2010 is shaping up as a huge year for us. So, without further ado, a few of my favorite numbers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 150,000,000 Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history.[source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 7.1 million Projected iPad sales for 2010. [source] 58 million Projected netbook sales in 2010. [source] 355 million Projected PC sales in 2010. [source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2008. [source] 96 Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2009. [source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 0 Number of paying customers running on Windows Azure in November 2009. 10,000 Number of paying customers running on Windows Azure in June 2010. [source] 700,000 Number of students, teachers and staff using Microsoft’s cloud productivity tools in Kentucky public schools, the largest cloud deployment in the US.[source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 16 million Total subscribers to largest 25 US daily newspapers. [source] 14 Million Total number of Netflix subscribers. [source] 23 million Total number of Xbox Live subscribers. [source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 9,000,000 Number of customer downloads of the Office 2010 beta prior to launch, the largest Microsoft beta program in history. [source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 21.4 million Number of new Bing search users in one year. [Comscore report – requires subscription] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 24% Linux Server market share in 2005. [source] 33% Predicted Linux Server market share for 2007 (made in 2005). [source] 21.2% Actual Linux Server market share, Q4 2009. [source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 8.8 million Global iPhone sales in Q1 2010. [source] 21.5 million Nokia smartphone sales in Q1 2010. [source] 55 million Total smartphone sales globally in Q1 2010. [source] 439 million Projected global smartphone sales in 2014. [source] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 9 Number of years it took Salesforce.com to reach 1 million paid user milestone. [source] 6 Number of years it took Microsoft Dynamics CRM to reach 1 million paid user milestone. [source] 100% Percent chance that Salesforce.com CEO will mention Microsoft in a speech, panel, interview, or blog post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 173 million Global Gmail users. [source] 284 million Global Yahoo! Mail users.[source] 360 million Global Windows Live Hotmail users.[source] 299 million Active Windows Live Messenger Accounts worldwide. [Comscore MyMetrix, WW, March 2010 - requires subscription] 1 Rank of Windows Live Messenger globally compared to all other instant messaging services. [Comscore MyMetrix, WW, March 2010 - requires subscription] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 $8.2 Billion Apple Net income for fiscal year ending Sep 2009. [source] $6.5 Billion Google Net income for fiscal year ending Dec 2009. [source] $14.5 Billion Microsoft Net Income for fiscal year ending June 2009. [source] $23.0 billion Total Microsoft revenue, FY2000. [source] $58.4 billion Total Microsoft revenue, FY2009. [source] fxs Posted by Frank X. Shaw Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #9 July 1, 2010 Quote $8.2 Billion Apple Net income for fiscal year ending Sep 2009. [source] $6.5 Billion Google Net income for fiscal year ending Dec 2009. [source] $14.5 Billion Microsoft Net Income for fiscal year ending June 2009. Employee Count MS - 93,000 GOOG - 20,621 APPL - 34,300 do the math. And despite all its product lines, the OS and Office packages still account for the lion's share of revenue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #10 July 1, 2010 Quote Quote $8.2 Billion Apple Net income for fiscal year ending Sep 2009. [source] $6.5 Billion Google Net income for fiscal year ending Dec 2009. [source] $14.5 Billion Microsoft Net Income for fiscal year ending June 2009. Employee Count MS - 93,000 GOOG - 20,621 APPL - 34,300 do the math. And despite all its product lines, the OS and Office packages still account for the lion's share of revenue. Yeah... and employees in almost every country in the world to support all the products and services Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dgskydive 0 #11 July 1, 2010 I read that this morning. Those phones never had a chance. Bad Marketing and Verizon treated them like smartphones. Took them out of the price range for the intended market.Dom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #12 July 1, 2010 Quote I read that this morning. Those phones never had a chance. Bad Marketing and Verizon treated them like smartphones. Took them out of the price range for the intended market. Mine was free... didn't cost me a thing for the last yearDid I mention I had full access.. again free to all the media stuff for Zune too Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #13 July 1, 2010 Quote Did I mention I had full access.. again free to all the media stuff for Zune too Hey!!!! The only Zune user on Earth! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #14 July 1, 2010 Quote Quote Did I mention I had full access.. again free to all the media stuff for Zune too Hey!!!! The only Zune user on Earth! I think you just might be surprised how many there are out there..From Wiki Units sold 20+ million (as of March 2010)[7] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #15 July 1, 2010 Quote From Wiki Units sold 20+ million (as of March 2010)[7] No doubt written by a user with an WA IP address. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #16 July 2, 2010 I have 2 of them. Owned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jgoose71 0 #17 July 3, 2010 Not supprised to see kin sales suck so bad. I had a windows based phone and it blew goat penis. Add in how badly windows computers perform (my XP based computer got corrupted rather quickly) why in the hell would anyone want to willingly buy any computer with a microsoft based OS? The only reason the xbox took off was because HALO. People had a choice after that, pay $50 for xbox live, or buy a playstation. If you already have an xbox, the cheap way out is to purchase xbox live. This post was done on a droid phone. Microsoft blows goat penis (can't be said enough)"There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #18 July 6, 2010 Quote Not supprised to see kin sales suck so bad. I had a windows based phone and it blew goat penis. Add in how badly windows computers perform (my XP based computer got corrupted rather quickly) why in the hell would anyone want to willingly buy any computer with a microsoft based OS? The only reason the xbox took off was because HALO. People had a choice after that, pay $50 for xbox live, or buy a playstation. If you already have an xbox, the cheap way out is to purchase xbox live. This post was done on a droid phone. Microsoft blows goat penis (can't be said enough) I was bitching at the cafeteria this AM about that very topic. I bought a HP-2133 netbook last year, but because the SLED 10 (Suse Linux Enterprise Distro) version was unavailable, I had to pay the inevitable "Microsoft Tax" for the netbook.Oh well, I said Hasta la Vista anyway, and I'm now running a netbook-oriented variant of Ubuntu called Jolicloud - no problems so far. M$FT has already cut off support for XP SP2, and will phase out support for SP3 in 2014. When that happens, I am NOT migrating my Sager to Windows 7 "Starter Version" (WTF?!). I have been using a Sony Vaio VGN-NR490 for about 18 months with Suse after saying Hasta la Vista, and have never regretted it. Suse / Linux does everything. I really believe that consumers are starting to ask "Why for the endless obsolescence / upgrade cycle that makes all of my expensive equipment worthless every three years?!" And while I'm on my soapbox, I'll take this opportunity to bash "Trusted Computing" (aka "Treacherous Computing") which has so much potential for abuse by vendors that it completely outstrips the security features. mh ."The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #19 July 6, 2010 QuoteAnd while I'm on my soapbox, I'll take this opportunity to bash "Trusted Computing" (aka "Treacherous Computing") which has so much potential for abuse by vendors that it completely outstrips the security features. One of the sad facts it takes some people a lifetime to fully understand is that anytime a company or group of companies uses the word "trust" you need to run like hell. It's a bit like the anti-christ coming to earth. He's not going to be sporting a red suit, a pitch fork, horns and a tail. He's going to be wearing a very white bread, middle-of-the-road, jeans and cowboy shirt. Maybe even a cowboy hat. He's going to be holding a beer in his hand and he's going to speak in slow southern drawl. He's going to say, "trust me."quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #20 July 6, 2010 Quote I really believe that consumers are starting to ask "Why for the endless obsolescence / upgrade cycle that makes all of my expensive equipment worthless every three years?!" DUDE.... if you want to live life running ANYTHING not MSFT on outdated equipment... go for itThe fact is most of the hardware that was available for XP when it came out is ANTIQUATED... running new software...games..applications etc... just works like shit on that machine that was so rad with 512MB of ram and that huge 20 GB hard drive on the machineThe hardware moves on into the future.. faster procs... bigger hard drives.... laptops with 4GB of ram as a base amount. I am sure there are people that just love their 128k MAC's... but you are not going to run much of the modern software on them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #21 July 6, 2010 Quote The hardware moves on into the future.. faster procs... bigger hard drives.... laptops with 4GB of ram as a base amount. To perform the same role as before. The reason why netbooks were running XP was that Vista added baggage for no added benefit. 7 got leaner, so netbooks starting shipping with it instead, but again, does the newer OS really give this user segment any improvements? Hardly. The only reason my netbook has win on it is that I want to use Canon's raw camera file reader. Otherwise, it's a slam dunk for a unix install. Netbooks are not about faster and bigger, but instead about more portable and cheap. If you lose it on vacation, it's not the end of the world. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #22 July 6, 2010 QuoteThe only reason my netbook has win on it is that I want to use Canon's raw camera file reader. Otherwise, it's a slam dunk for a unix install. Nuke it!! (Well, ok...go with a dual-boot until you know if any of the below will work for you) UFRAW RawStudio Raw Therapee DigiKamMike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dgskydive 0 #23 July 7, 2010 Quote Did I mention I had full access.. again free to all the media stuff for Zune too I have actually never seen a Zune out in the wild. I have seen them in stores, but never seen anyone using one. MSFT is just not that cool.Dom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
