My rep and I are continuing our year end strategy sessions and 2008 will be another banner year. We just finished figuring out different ways to procure financing for more product licensing. Here are some more predictions to add to this list:
1. Microsoft puts Nintendo out of business with an XBOX 360 handheld. This will combine the raw and unbridled power of the XBOX 360 with the form factor and popularity of the Zune. Bye-bye Nintendo DS
2. Apple will ask Microsoft for permission to move the iPod platform to Windows and eventually will give up on iTunes and the iPod completely due to the popularity of the Zune.
3. Linux and UNIX will completely die under pressure from the powerful Windows 2008 server. Linux distributors who have signed IP agreements with Microsoft will be allowed to survive but Red Hat will go away.
4. Vista will end up being the single most important technological innovation since Bell said "Hello Watson".
Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions
Microsoft Predictions for 2008: Office 14 hits beta
Even though Windows 7 isn't expected to ship until 2010, word is that Office 14 is still on track to be released to manufacturing in 2009. If Microsoft sticks to schedule, the company could field Beta 1 of the product in 2008.
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Mike Cox18th Dec 2007 -
Heh...
"4. Vista will end up being the single most important technological innovation since Bell said "Hello Watson"."
That's Dr. Watson, to you!
techboy_z18th Dec 2007 -
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Mikey,
That was PRICELESS... Too funny..!
Wolfie2K319th Dec 2007 -
Bell
What Bell failed to mention to Watson was that it was a collect call.
professordnm19th Dec 2007 -
10!!!
Best one in a looooooong time, Mike!!!
JLHenry19th Dec 2007 -
When will Bill's big fear come true?
He always claimed that Microsoft had to play rough because it could be out of business almost overnight.
If software consumers were rational, MS would be reduced to a Gaming Machine and Software company. If the feds understood technology there'd be new laws that would make Windows2000 public domain by 2010, and they'd have split up MS 10 years ago.
FlatAffect20th Dec 2007 -
Say again Commi?
Any if you new anything about the constitution, you might know whay I think you are a communist.
waldens113th Aug 2009 -
way off
you and your rep where way off!
itchy8me31st Jul 2009 -
Microsoft Will Hail The Launch Of Its Most Successful OS To Date
Windows XP....
or is that re-release?
PC World named Vista as the technical bomb of 2007, so it can only get better from here.
Repackage XP, give it a shiny new label, and I'm sure all those people who had to suffer through Vista will be purchasing it in droves.
itanalyst18th Dec 2007 -
They also pointed out that the iPhone
and Leopard where 2 of the top 10 biggest disapointments of 2007.
Just repackage Tiger, slap the next OSX revision number in line on it, and the Apple faithfull will leap at the chance to spend 129.00 dollars for it!
The iPhone, well just rename it iPod, and people will want to buy it again for 599.00
GuidingLight18th Dec 2007 -
I don't know if I could
even list 10 noteworthy new products in 2007, much less name the 10 worst.
Michael Kelly18th Dec 2007 -
I am in agreement with you there
Nothing of the past year was overly impressive, nor terrible enough to make me want to return it for a refund.
The year was what it was: just another year.GuidingLight18th Dec 2007 -
I don't know if Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn came out in 2007, but OLPC did (just)
I personally like the look of the iPhone. I personally wouldn't
buy one for myself for the following reasons:
a) I don't care about mobile phones. In fact I consider my
quality of life infinitely improved without one. Of course I
have one, but I charge it and turn it on about 3 days each year.
I used to have top of the range phones, but I got bored with
them. Same think with PDAs.
b) It's a bit expensive.
c) It's tied to one carrier.
d) DRM.
In fact, I'd much prefer the chinese "copy". (runs linux, half the price, unlocked, half the thickness).
Having said that I still think it's a great product (just not for me).
The OLPC on the other hand, I want. I like the sofware concept, and I think this will be a huge platform in coming years.
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon, what can I say, marvellous.
My kids and I have even been playing the network First Person Shooter Urban Terror on our PCs (under ubuntu). It's based on the Quake III engine apparently. On this FPS you don't get the vehicles you get on Halo2, but it doesn't seem to matter much.
Halo2 online we got bored with very fast. Somehow you get less people per map in Urban Terror, and it's just better. (with voting to kick people etc): In the same way that SOCOM is better online than Halo.
I gave away my copy of Vista, I found it far too laggy, and where we use Windows, we've stuck with XP. (SP1 with ZoneAlarm firewall, Spybot S&D, Grisoft AVG). It's amazing how fast XP SP1 is even with the above security products. If the PC is secretly owned, then the overall effect is less of a problem than later service packs!
Oh and if you can call an Internet shop a product, Amazon selling MP3s is one of the best products ever! no sucky DRM!
I bought a LOT of music, and I haven't done that for many years.
(you shouldn't have to buy a CD these days, but DRM music is just awful. I lot a bunch of stuff from MSN Music club, and I'm never going down that route again.
stevey_d31st Dec 2007 -
Jesus
There hasn't been a release of windows that wasn't a technical bomb since win95. Why innovate when there are no other choices. Just wait for someone to come up with good ideas and do a bad job copying them.
usmcdvldg@...18th Dec 2007 -
Wish I could talk
Wish I could talk through my hat like you. Momma always said, if you ain't got nothing good to say (and you haven't) keep it ****...
Blogsworth18th Dec 2007
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