Anyone with half a brain and some humanity could outdo Ballmer.
Woulda made a better used car sales guy.
The Internet of Everything.
Oy.
But can He create a rock so large that He, Himself could not lift?
He actually remembered that the “Soft” in Microsoft is for “Software.”
As for Office365 on the iPad --- good enough for what I do and I'm really enjoying rubbing my iPads new functionality in the noses of the "Surface" crowd @ the office.
Before Office365 functionality on my iPad I was perhaps 50% self sufficient, needing my laptop for content creation needs. Now I can get by creating basic content on my iPad leaving the really fancy stuff for the MS Laptop. I'm guessing I'm about 75% of fully functional with the iPad alone.
I kinda like that. Give Microsoft's new CEO props for throwing the Microsoft doors open. Keep up the good work!
I can’t wait for this company to go away.
“one of the most egregious price gouging experiences in personal technology,” as blogger Paul Thurrott”
LOTFLMAO, LOTFLMAO has this idiot ever bought an Apple product?
They dropped the NSA camera from the XBone yesterday and cut the price $100. I may end up buying one for the kids.
Nadella may deserve some, perhaps a lot, of the credit, but, most of the software and technology developments were well underway and even ready for deployment, before Ballmer had even declared that he was leaving.
There may be a new attitude within the workplace, and perhaps in the minds of may Wall Street types, but, development of new software and hardware, and even services, takes a lot longer than 3 months.
Nice hype, though. I’m not taking anything away from Nadella, but, let’s give credit where credit is due.
“In a few short weeks, the company has a fresh outlook and a more respectful attitude toward all of its constituents, its customers, developers and, most especially, its competitors.”
That is complete and utter BS: Microsoft just announced everyone has two weeks to upgrade to Windows 8.1 Update 1 or they can no longer receive ANY security patches! It took Microsoft 12 years to reach that state with Windows XP, and only four weeks to get to that state with Windows 8.1. How in the hell is that considered “respectful”?
One thing I expect Microsoft to do under the new regime is when we see Windows 9 in prototype form for the first time around September 2014, it will be an OS that automatically differentiates between conventional desktop/laptop computers and touch-enabled tablet computers. In short, there will be the Windows 7 desktop UI launched by default on desktop/laptop computers and a touchscreen “Modern” UI launched by default on tablet computers. In short, a true, worthy successor to Windows 7.
First task - fire whoever decided to change the user interface to Office and Windows 8. Talk about a painful time waster.
Now he can get to the really important stuff. Releasing HALO 3 for the PC
Just one example of his cluelessness: He scoffed at the iPhone when it came out and declared that it would get zero market share.
But he'll always be remembered for his ridiculous over-the-top presentations in which he barrels around the stage like a giraffe that just OD'd on cocaine. If he never met Gates at Harvard and achieved to his actual ability, he'd be doing that nonsense at Amway conventions or maybe selling time-shares at some dumpy Florida resort.