... but follow up the analyst meeting with continuous feel good ads about its accomplishments in cloud computing, where MS sees the cloud market headed, and how it plans to excel in it. Emphasize that the industry is only at the beginning stage.
Also, MS should put to rest the notion that Windows and Office are near their ends. I believe MS should emphasize how these products will be extremely innovative in the future and change people's lives. MS needs to sell, sell the company (for the sake of its stock) - and not just its products.
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@P. Douglas: ...meanwhile google and Amazon will continue to do the actual leading in the cloud space, and Hyper-V will continue to be an also-ran (call me when Hyper-V can do seamless VMotion and SVMotion duties, and allow more than 24 VMs on a single server before it *snort* runs out of drive letters to assign...)
I have no real love or hate about Hyper-V, but between VMWare and Citrix, Microsoft is hurting in the hypervisorl realm (notice Microsoft never mentioned XenServer? There's a reason for that).
I have no real love or hate about Hyper-V, but between VMWare and Citrix, Microsoft is hurting in the hypervisorl realm (notice Microsoft never mentioned XenServer? There's a reason for that).
@Random_Walk
Try 384 VM's per physical server. Do you honestly think M$ ties VM's to drive letters? Even having to ask this question shows that you know almost nothing about HYPER-V.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee405267(WS.10).aspx
Try 384 VM's per physical server. Do you honestly think M$ ties VM's to drive letters? Even having to ask this question shows that you know almost nothing about HYPER-V.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee405267(WS.10).aspx
@systemx
If you add a round Red nose to Ballmer you are correct about the Clown bit
If you add a round Red nose to Ballmer you are correct about the Clown bit
Yikes! Kevin Turner--or whoever created that first visual shown in this piece--needs to attend the Steve Jobs School for Visual Presentations.
Leading the parade? The parade is over, where was MS?
It's sad to see MS floundering to catch up. They tried to get into the social media game with the Kin. They tried to topple the iPod with the Zune. They tried to take over the game console market with the Xbox. They are 'h ard core' about tablets which don't exist. Their OS hasn't been significantly improved since XP. The one thing that has done the most harm to the web has been IE. Their mobile platform can't hold a candle to the iPhone or Android.
It's sad to see MS floundering to catch up. They tried to get into the social media game with the Kin. They tried to topple the iPod with the Zune. They tried to take over the game console market with the Xbox. They are 'h ard core' about tablets which don't exist. Their OS hasn't been significantly improved since XP. The one thing that has done the most harm to the web has been IE. Their mobile platform can't hold a candle to the iPhone or Android.
@edelbrp,
"It's sad to see MS floundering to catch up"
The same catch up is happening in Apple. They had tried with iWorks but still far behind than Office. They tried with Mac OS X server, far behind too compared with Windows 2008. BTW, how are doing the Apple offerings that compete with SQL, SharePoint, System Center and Exchange?
"They tried to take over the game console market with the Xbox"
IMO, have a second place in the worldwide market is not bad at all, don't you think.
"Their OS hasn't been significantly improved since XP"
You should try Windows 7 before posting this kind of comment.
"Their mobile platform can't hold a candle to the iPhone or Android"
With WM6 they would never had a chance. With WP7, who knows...
"It's sad to see MS floundering to catch up"
The same catch up is happening in Apple. They had tried with iWorks but still far behind than Office. They tried with Mac OS X server, far behind too compared with Windows 2008. BTW, how are doing the Apple offerings that compete with SQL, SharePoint, System Center and Exchange?
"They tried to take over the game console market with the Xbox"
IMO, have a second place in the worldwide market is not bad at all, don't you think.
"Their OS hasn't been significantly improved since XP"
You should try Windows 7 before posting this kind of comment.
"Their mobile platform can't hold a candle to the iPhone or Android"
With WM6 they would never had a chance. With WP7, who knows...
@dvm,
Hey dvm, thanks for the reply.
I'm not a Apple fanboy or own any of their stock, I'm just frustrated with MS's lack of anything really new or cool.
"The same catch up is happening in Apple. They had tried with iWorks but still far behind than Office. They tried with Mac OS X server, far behind too compared with Windows 2008. BTW, how are doing the Apple offerings that compete with SQL, SharePoint, System Center and Exchange?"
Yeah, Apple isn't focused on the corporate big picture. As an IT guy, I don't consider MacOS-X to be a server platform and their biz collaborating tools are almost non-existant. But, they are killing the user sector (for lack of a better term). They understand aesthetics and UI. They can pick a seemingly impenetrable market (cell phones or tablets) and make a killing. Why can't MS do that?
"IMO, [XBOX] have a second place in the worldwide market is not bad at all, don't you think."
They were #4, and took a huge hit in profits at the manufacturing defects rate with the ring of death (as many as 1/3 units fail, many users are on their 5+ free replacement unit under warranty).
"You should try Windows 7 before posting this kind of comment."
'Kind of comment'? Again, assuming I'm an Apple fanboy? I run more copies of windows here than MacOS. But, to be fair, true, most Windows XP users like me still aren't upgrading to Win7 yet (only 1 in 5), so your guess was pretty safe.
"With WM6 they would never had a chance. With WP7, who knows..."
Yeah, who knows? I hope they get their act together.
Competition is good! I just get that feeling that MS company culture has bred a generation of managers that are living in the past and playing catch up. No true new innovation besides the recent business acquisitions. Where is R&D?
Hey dvm, thanks for the reply.
I'm not a Apple fanboy or own any of their stock, I'm just frustrated with MS's lack of anything really new or cool.
"The same catch up is happening in Apple. They had tried with iWorks but still far behind than Office. They tried with Mac OS X server, far behind too compared with Windows 2008. BTW, how are doing the Apple offerings that compete with SQL, SharePoint, System Center and Exchange?"
Yeah, Apple isn't focused on the corporate big picture. As an IT guy, I don't consider MacOS-X to be a server platform and their biz collaborating tools are almost non-existant. But, they are killing the user sector (for lack of a better term). They understand aesthetics and UI. They can pick a seemingly impenetrable market (cell phones or tablets) and make a killing. Why can't MS do that?
"IMO, [XBOX] have a second place in the worldwide market is not bad at all, don't you think."
They were #4, and took a huge hit in profits at the manufacturing defects rate with the ring of death (as many as 1/3 units fail, many users are on their 5+ free replacement unit under warranty).
"You should try Windows 7 before posting this kind of comment."
'Kind of comment'? Again, assuming I'm an Apple fanboy? I run more copies of windows here than MacOS. But, to be fair, true, most Windows XP users like me still aren't upgrading to Win7 yet (only 1 in 5), so your guess was pretty safe.
"With WM6 they would never had a chance. With WP7, who knows..."
Yeah, who knows? I hope they get their act together.
Competition is good! I just get that feeling that MS company culture has bred a generation of managers that are living in the past and playing catch up. No true new innovation besides the recent business acquisitions. Where is R&D?
@edelbrp,
"As an IT guy, I don't consider MacOS-X to be a server platform and their biz collaborating tools are almost non-existant. But, they are killing the user sector (for lack of a better term). They understand aesthetics and UI. They can pick a seemingly impenetrable market (cell phones or tablets) and make a killing. Why can't MS do that?"
Completely agree with you. My point is that MS is dominant in market where Apple hasn't do anything, and Apple has been successful in devices for consumers (iPod, iPad and iPhone). IMO, the MS desktop experience is better than the Apple desktop when you take in consideration the cloud and other devices. Search for information regarding the Zune and you will found that has excellent reviews. XBox is a better platform as a media device compared with Apple TV. So they are doing many things right, but right now the focus is on mobile devices an Apple is doing better.
"They were #4, and took a huge hit in profits at the manufacturing defects rate with the ring of death (as many as 1/3 units fail, many users are on their 5+ free replacement unit under warranty)."
That was in the past. The manufacturing problems were fixed a few years ago and right now they are #2. IMO, they are doing excellent for a market they enter recently.
"'Kind of comment'? Again, assuming I'm an Apple fanboy? I run more copies of windows here than MacOS. But, to be fair, true, most Windows XP users like me still aren't upgrading to Win7 yet (only 1 in 5), so your guess was pretty safe."
You mention that Windows hasn't been improved significantly since Windows XP. And my response was to you was "try before post". If you haven't tried it yet in a full time environment like you mention on your post, how do you know that it hasn't improved? That's was my point.
"Competition is good! I just get that feeling that MS company culture has bred a generation of managers that are living in the past and playing catch up. No true new innovation besides the recent business acquisitions. Where is R&D?"
IMO, the R&D is focused on the enterprise business and not the consumer, opposed to Apple where the don't have enterprise business at all. Hope to see in a future MS giving more time to the consumer market.
"As an IT guy, I don't consider MacOS-X to be a server platform and their biz collaborating tools are almost non-existant. But, they are killing the user sector (for lack of a better term). They understand aesthetics and UI. They can pick a seemingly impenetrable market (cell phones or tablets) and make a killing. Why can't MS do that?"
Completely agree with you. My point is that MS is dominant in market where Apple hasn't do anything, and Apple has been successful in devices for consumers (iPod, iPad and iPhone). IMO, the MS desktop experience is better than the Apple desktop when you take in consideration the cloud and other devices. Search for information regarding the Zune and you will found that has excellent reviews. XBox is a better platform as a media device compared with Apple TV. So they are doing many things right, but right now the focus is on mobile devices an Apple is doing better.
"They were #4, and took a huge hit in profits at the manufacturing defects rate with the ring of death (as many as 1/3 units fail, many users are on their 5+ free replacement unit under warranty)."
That was in the past. The manufacturing problems were fixed a few years ago and right now they are #2. IMO, they are doing excellent for a market they enter recently.
"'Kind of comment'? Again, assuming I'm an Apple fanboy? I run more copies of windows here than MacOS. But, to be fair, true, most Windows XP users like me still aren't upgrading to Win7 yet (only 1 in 5), so your guess was pretty safe."
You mention that Windows hasn't been improved significantly since Windows XP. And my response was to you was "try before post". If you haven't tried it yet in a full time environment like you mention on your post, how do you know that it hasn't improved? That's was my point.
"Competition is good! I just get that feeling that MS company culture has bred a generation of managers that are living in the past and playing catch up. No true new innovation besides the recent business acquisitions. Where is R&D?"
IMO, the R&D is focused on the enterprise business and not the consumer, opposed to Apple where the don't have enterprise business at all. Hope to see in a future MS giving more time to the consumer market.
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