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• krusty283: Microsoft lacks user savvy.
  M$ hasn't produced one interesting thing in the last 5 years.
  Their criticisms of Apple and Google just indicate how woefully
  behind they are on the creativity and usability curves. Basically,
  Apple craps products that are better than ones that M$ spends
  years of talent, money, and research trying to create and Google
  has completely ran circles around M$ web initiatives. Microsoft
  is L-A-M-E and relies on installed base and "user-lock" to
  continue their profitable business ... they certainly aren't earning
  their position any longer. They have become the 500lb gorilla
  that has stopped taking risks and are allowing other companies
  to market-test concepts before they jump in to the mix years
  too late after the concept has been pre-proven by someone else.
  
  Microsoft (and Dell too) need to understand something: The
  world is flooded with tech devices these days. Have 'x' number
  of features at 'x' price point is not what people want anymore.
  People increasingly want something that takes the user
  experience to the next level ... something that differentiates
  itself from what has come before. Revolutionary products are
  what drives the tech business and where the high profit margins
  lay. Apple's iPhone might fail (as has some other Apple
  products in the past) but it won't be for lack of business savvy ...
  there are plenty of business people and even more "normal"
  people who don't realistically go over spread sheets on their
  freakin' cell phone on a regular basis ... does M$ really believe
  that any significant portion of the business community is
  actually doing complex spreadsheet manipulations on their
  phones on a daily ?

  April 19, 2007

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• Wow!!
  Oh my word. IE 7 beta is going to have tabs and now semi-
  translucent "Gadgets" to be included in Vista ... whenever it gets
  released. I cannot fathom how Microsoft became the huge
  company they are. They have a long history of taking other
  people's concepts, implementing them WORSE than what they are
  trying to knock-off, and doing it years behind the curve. We're now
  in the 6th cursed year of XP and even the future, in-the-pipe stuff
  from M$ is a bigger yawn than what has already been available on
  other platforms for years.

  February 2, 2006

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