How Microsoft wasted $6.2 billion
Microsoft admitted its largest acquisition in the Internet sector was effectively worthless and wiped out any profit for the last quarter
Microsoft wasted billions challenging Google
How Microsoft wasted $6.2 billion
Microsoft admitted its largest acquisition in the Internet sector was effectively worthless and wiped out any profit for the last quarter
They should have spent that money on making Windows 8 less of a disaster!
Originally Posted by Garyvdh
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i shall not install windows H8, windows 7 is perfect for me...
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MS should stick to software and the XBOX.
And there I was thinking this was about money spent touch-screening Windows7 to rebrand it as Windows8, but no it's about a marketing company from 2007.
Yes. MS seem to really have lost their way.
"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."
Robert Sewell.
They're buying assets to chase markets which have already been thoroughly captured by incumbents. Then they don't really add anything to differentiate themselves. The days when ie could win because it was locked to the os are long over. And they wasted huge amounts of time in failing to respond to the mobile computing threat.
You were watching until a stone was cut out without hands
Why is it a disaster?
Things that make me stay away from Windows 8 is that Metro Interface, its nice for a tablet PC, but not for a PC or laptop in my opinion.
Have you used it on a normal PC for any extended period of time?
It actually works, and works VERY well.
I also run Windows 8 RP on two tower PCs with large dual monitors. I log-in by clicking hotspots on a picture, my calendar and contacts sync with the cloud and phone, and I spend my day in legacy apps in the Desktop spanned over two large LCD displays. Marvellous. Everything Windows 7 can do, and more, with better dual-monitor support.
For desktop users, Metro simply replaces the old Start Menu invoked by the Start orb. With Windows 7, do you spend your time in the Start Menu? Not? Neither do you in Windows 8.
It's schizophrenic... it doesn't know what it wants to be.
+1 I actually thought Metro was going to be a commercial flop, but after I installed the consumer preview all of those thoughts vanished.
Yea but you are saying windows 8 has failed when the reality is it will flourish in a big way. The tablet market is massive, all they need to is success there. I don't like it but then i have not spent that much time on it. When it is released and has drivers i will make the switch for a minimum of two months before i say it's kuk.
It could be the best release they have had and it will also allow them to enter markets they currently have no foot hold in. I cannot see how it could fail in all honesty.
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