Microsoft: We Should've Done More, We're Slow

[spoofedpacket]

[citation][nom]brando56894[/nom]Microsoft's idea is to steal product ideas from other companies and pass them off as their own.[/citation]

Every large corporate entity grows by purchasing technology rights from smaller, high risk companies, once they have established its value. The business world is littered with companies who have a singular goal to come up with a good technology, product, patent, etc and sell it to a giant company for a profit.

I don't really see anything wrong with this. It lets a company large enough to do something with the technology get it to the people, while the guys who cooked it up get paid off better than if they had done it in an internal lab.

 

[Tomtompiper]

MS have always been happy for others to do the innovation, while the do the imitation, and to be fair they aren't totally terrible at it.

 

[spoofedpacket]

[citation][nom]ProDigit80[/nom]MS is making sure that we'll all purchase bloated operating systems way too large for our needs!It would do well to sell a Windows framework, with upgrade patches for each different version (like eg: a server patch, a gaming patch, a media center patch, etc...), and keep the cost of a Windows down to a minimum.[/citation]

I believe they've done this very thing with MCE, Ultimate, Pro, Home, Basic, and downgrade rights to XP on the consumer side. On the server side, you've got Foundation, 2008 w/ downgrade rights to 2003, Standard, Datacenter, Enterprise DC, etc.

But really, I've got 18GB worth of C:\Windows (7 64bit Ultimate) and I really don't care. For once in the history of an OS release, inexpensive hardware is so far beyond the 'recommended' specs, a little bloat makes about no difference; it only adds features. Games have no perceivable difference than when I ran them on Vista or XP, and I can run a virus scan on that bloated OS while in BC2 and not experience a visible difference in responsiveness.

I think what I'm trying to say: If Windows 7 seems bloated, it might be time to upgrade your hardware. It is cheap.

 

[Regulas]

Microsoft is nothing but a exploitive copycat company. It started with a Windows 3.1 copied from Apple and not stopped since. Did I mention they are also a convicted monopolist.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I was trying to think of something intelligence but the only thing that came to mind is that if it weren't for MS and their push for the atx standard we'd all be using mac's or something.

 

[Guest]

Microsoft is a large company- large companies don't do innovation very well. Large companies do processes and production of scale. They should stick to that.

 

[Shin-san]

Their XBox department has been innovative, but yeah, not their entire company.

[citation][nom]pochacco007[/nom]microsoft is not a consumer company.[/citation]
So far, they seem developer-focused more than anything else.

 

[crikey2]

[citation][nom]Regulas[/nom]Microsoft is nothing but a exploitive copycat company. It started with a Windows 3.1 copied from Apple and not stopped since. Did I mention they are also a convicted monopolist.[/citation]
Hmm, more like Apple and Microsoft BOTH copied Xerox - except unlike Microsoft, Apple forgot to copy both mouse buttons. On the other hand, Apple remembered to copy the trashcan from Xerox and MS didn't. Really its kind of ridiculous to think that companies are innovative. Companies don't inovate, PEOPLE do. And smart innovative people move around, spread their ideas and others build upon it further. Companies don't innovate - they patent and sue.

 

[cadder]

I occasionally come with ideas or suggestions for them. I wonder if they would listen to me or how you would get a company that large to listen.

I bought Win7 during the pre-order last summer, and everything is great with it. But then I didn't have too many problems with XP.

 

[caparc]

I'm going to be with XP at least another year. When I upgrade XP, in another year or so I'm donating this copy to the Smithsonian.

 

[WarraWarra]

"Microsoft: We Should've Done More, We're Slow"

User ask's Microsoft " you think ? "

Just shredded vista and win7 dvd's as I could get no one that wanted them even with $200 cash and no takers.
Someone was willing to do obscene favors to me for my 5 copies of XP Pro 32/64

Still waiting for XP sp4 and XP x64 SP3 and will do so well past Win 20 at the current Microsoft trend.

Microsoft I NEED NO SPYWARE, NO ET CALL HOME, CLASSIC CONTROL PANEL, CLASSIC EXPLORER, CLASSIC DESKTOP WIN 98 STYLE !!!!

Take Win Server 2k8R2 without the breaking it updates add classic desktop, classic explorer, classic control panel and please put the stuff back where it Win XP belongs.

Please fire the clowns that moved everything into 50 click hell Vista Win 7 placed in the wrong hidden 15 folders dungeon Win 7 Vista Hell.

This is what I still need and want then Microsoft can have my money.
As if Microsoft would actually read or listen to anything request by it's users LMAO.

Buying 5 new $1600 laptops and first thing is to install XP Pro X64 SP2 on it after I format Win 7 off.

 

[ardurren]

wtf good is a bluetrack mouse when they cant add functional scroll wheel or buttons.. yeah it works on glass as long as i dont need to actually click anything

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]megajynx[/nom]Microsoft hasn't really done anything new or innovative in nearly a decade, and the sad part is it took them this long to realize it. Yea, good call, Microsoft IS slow...[/citation]

They actually have, just not to the consumer yet. Look up Microsoft Surface. Its amazing.

In software though, innovation is hard these days. Almost everything is doen and if it isn't, then someone owns a patent on it.

[citation][nom]Regulas[/nom]Microsoft is nothing but a exploitive copycat company. It started with a Windows 3.1 copied from Apple and not stopped since. Did I mention they are also a convicted monopolist.[/citation]

Pssst... the first OS (OS 1.0) that Apple started to use was built by MS for them. In the 90s when Apple was failing, MS bailed them out and forced them to take Steve Jobs back.

The only part of monopoly they were convicted of was because they had IE built into Windows and peopke are not smart enough to install a alternate browser.

 

[Guest]

`solve everything from spiraling population growth'

Now that's frightening.
Ah yes. Bring out a technology like the iPhone (Apple). Sell millions of units and don't mention the (metal shell and) radiation that emits from each one. Does any of this technology kill or does it simply make us infertile?

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Worst-Cell-Phones-Radiation-SAR,news-6179.html

 

[spoofedpacket]

[citation][nom]a_dude[/nom]Does any of this technology kill or does it simply make us infertile?http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Worst- [...] -6179.html[/citation]

If talking about iPhone owners, I'd say removal of the ability to reproduce might not be such a bad thing for them.

 

[Regulas]

[citation][nom]WarraWarra[/nom]"Microsoft: We Should've Done More, We're Slow"User ask's Microsoft " you think ? "Just shredded vista and win7 dvd's as I could get no one that wanted them even with $200 cash and no takers. Someone was willing to do obscene favors to me for my 5 copies of XP Pro 32/64Still waiting for XP sp4 and XP x64 SP3 and will do so well past Win 20 at the current Microsoft trend.Microsoft I NEED NO SPYWARE, NO ET CALL HOME, CLASSIC CONTROL PANEL, CLASSIC EXPLORER, CLASSIC DESKTOP WIN 98 STYLE !!!! Take Win Server 2k8R2 without the breaking it updates add classic desktop, classic explorer, classic control panel and please put the stuff back where it Win XP belongs.Please fire the clowns that moved everything into 50 click hell Vista Win 7 placed in the wrong hidden 15 folders dungeon Win 7 Vista Hell.This is what I still need and want then Microsoft can have my money.As if Microsoft would actually read or listen to anything request by it's users LMAO.Buying 5 new $1600 laptops and first thing is to install XP Pro X64 SP2 on it after I format Win 7 off.[/citation]
And I thought your last sentence was going to say Linux instead of XP Pro X64 SP2, LOL.

 

[Regulas]

First thing I did when I bought my new 13" Acer Timeline laptop was wipe the Windows 7 proprietary DRM infection off and install Linux. I run Vista SP2, I mean 7 long enough to make restore disks so I could sell it one day with 7 on it since so many people are MS fanboys.

 

[nachowarrior]

get it right people.... it's windows 6.1 and you paid a ton of money for a kernel update that should ha\/e been just a free update.

 

[Milleman]

If you are a Monopoly, then you don't have to be innovative. People have to buy stuff anyway, regardless. Could this new insight be a sign that the Microsoft Monopoly is loosing it grip?

 

[shiznit770]

To most people Microsoft means windows and internet explorer (maybe office). With that line of thought I can see why you would think Microsoft hasn't done anything innovative. From my perspective(developer) they have been unmatched in innovation and giving the user what they need since the release of .net