Microsoft Is Officially Out of Ideas

The Motley Fool ^ | May 29, 2008 | Anders Bylund

[HAL9000]

So Windows 7 will be like a bad imitation of the iPhone.

[1rudeboy]

Office 2007 blows. There, I said it.

[ShadowAce]

I do know that Windows 7 will be based on, and have the same codebase as, Windows Server 2008, FWIW.

[library user]

Microsoft is not out of ideas; they're out of good ideas.

[elfman2]

That’s no small accomplishment, and it probably is useful in some specialty applications, but I’d personally just rather they rewrote windows to make it smaller and faster. They could stay with a 3.1 looking interface for all I care, and I think that most people would agree. If this is just another bloated layer atop Vista, they’re killing themselves.

[Sunnyflorida]

It is kind of surprising. Early in the year it looked like they would have a modern micro kernal architecture and support legacy apps in a compatibility box (VM). Seems so logical I just don’t understand why not.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

When did Microsoft ever have and idea that they didn't steal or maybe buy from the innovators in the industry?

[max americana]

You’re not the only one who’s disappointed in Office 07.

Just like Vista, I had to “upgrade” back to Office 2003.

[dan1123]

Wait, they had MinWin WinFS pretty graphics added to Vista, and they didn't take away too many features. That counts for something, right?

[RightWhale]

It certainly looks like that is the way it has been.

[gridlock]

Yup. Microsoft has to get with the “small is beautiful” thing. I want an operating system that will do a heck of a lot less, with a heck of a lot less resources, which can run off of a non-writable media, so it reloads fresh every time.

[dan1123]

Office 2007 blows. There, I said it.

The only thing I wanted was consistency between their strange pseudo-MDI apps. Instead, I get a weird "ribbon" that makes it extra hard to find the feature I'm looking for, a stealth File-menu, and a bigger, backwards-incompatible spreadsheet.

[dan1123]

Microsoft has to get with the “small is beautiful” thing. I want an operating system that will do a heck of a lot less, with a heck of a lot less resources, which can run off of a non-writable media, so it reloads fresh every time.

They were going to put that in Windows 7, but it got canceled.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Microsoft officially announced they were out of ideas when they released Internet Explorer 7 last year.

It's a cheap rip-off of and looks just like the default install of Firefox.

It's been all down hill since then.

[Dazed_Catt]

Yeah I agree. IE7 more or less proved MS is out of ideas. They copied Firefox and didn’t even come close.

I’m still waiting for some Iowa farm kid who’ll design an OS that’ll bankrupt Microsoft in a months time.

[cizinec]

They revolutionized the way one software company can rip off ideas from real innovators and not get sued. That’s innovative, isn’t it?

[RachelFaith]

As long as MicroShaft continues to design their OS to benefit Hollywood and the RIAA, at the expense of their actual users, they deserve to be bankrupt and driven out of business.

[big'ol_freeper]

[Salo]

Blasphemy!

Office 2007 blows. There, I said it.

[msnpatriot]

A Vista question for someone out there.

I have a laptop with Vista Premium. I normally run administrator. Then I got the idea to create a standard user acount for safer surfing.

How to I transfer the administrator programs over to the standard user. I tried to change the standard account to administrator temporarily, but it changed back itself to standard.