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Microsoft is now basically ahead of everybody as to where computing is heading

I have a BS, MS in CS and 30 years in Computing, and that statement is about as far from the truth as the IRAQI Minister's during the IRAQ war.

Let me ask you a single question that stops all the MSoft fan-boys cold.

After your experience running Windows (forced reboots, blue screens) would you get on an airplane where the airplane control was Windows based?

Windows only matter for stuff that doesn't matter. You can't build ANYTHING highly reliable (enterprise, embedded or appliance) with it. The dedicated desktop is dying.....and so will Windows.

That being said W8 is better, it's just too late. Microsoft is "leading from behind". Maybe they should spend less time copying Apple, and playing in Media (MSNBC they just ditched) and more time ENGINEERING.

I don’t want to get on an airliner where the FMS is programmed in C++, much less Windows.

MSFT is having the same problem so many computing companies that were started by techies have had: They handed the control over to a salesman.

This has resulted in the death or near-death of the following companies:

1. Wang.
2. DEC.
3. Apple (in the early/mid 90’s) - Apple looks like they’re riding high now, but they were nearly dead in the mid-90’s.
4. HP - broken up and doing jack-all for innovation now.

Balmer just doesn’t know what to do or how to lead a technical company. He knows how to plump up sales through various machinations, but he can’t do what needs to be done.

What needs to be done to MSFT now is about what Gates did to MSFT in the early 90’s, when Gates first thought that the Internet was just a flash in the pan. When, by ‘94 to ‘95, it was clear that the Internet was going to take off like a homesick angel, Gates made MSFT do a 180 in the parking lot at warp speed. I have to give him credit, he made that company (which was already pretty large) turn on a dime.

Now the same type of challenge is in front of them and they don’t have the leadership to turn it around...

I bought my Windows 7 PC, when it came out. It seems a couple of years ago.

I have been keeping it in sleep mode all of the time, except when I have updated something and it tells me to restart.

I have opened and closed programs on it several times a day.

I have not yet had the blue screen of death on Windows 7 yet. That doesn’t mean I won’t, I just haven’t. That has been my experience.

Microsoft is "leading from behind". Maybe they should spend less time copying Apple, and playing in Media (MSNBC they just ditched) and more time ENGINEERING.

You bring to mind a scene from "The Big Bang Theory!"

[Usual gang and Priya are gossiping about Sheldon]
Howard Wolowitz: Raj, did you ever tell your sister about the time Sheldon got punched by Bill Gates?
Priya: Oh, God! You're kidding?
Raj Koothrappali: Nope. Gates gave a speech at the university. Sheldon went up to him afterward and said, "Maybe if you weren't so distracted by sick children in Africa, you could've put a little more thought into Windows Vista."
[all laugh]
Leonard Hofstadter: Bam! Right in the nose. Made me proud to own a PC.

Mark

From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1632232/quotes