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Bill Gates shows CEOs how to waste research money
blogs.computerworld.com — I don't understand why Microsoft spends so much time, effort and money building hardware systems like Surface and TouchWall while it's operating system business is in such dangerous disarray.
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- DarkShroud, on 05/15/2008, -4/+12How the hell can you compare the iPhone to MS surface? Then there are more Vista jabs. How amusing the Mac users complain MS doesn't innovate yet when MS comes out with something brand new & better than anything apple has they're just wasting money. What a pathetic joke of an article.
- jemka, on 05/15/2008, -3/+3In other news, Bill Gates still wipes his ass with $100 bills and laughs at anyone who talks about making and/or spending money.
- dig1x, on 05/15/2008, -6/+9How the ***** does this tool get published?
"So while Microsoft is investing millions in hardware it will never sell, where's the multi-touch version of Windows? "
Multi-touch has been available for windows for ages -- its hardware & a driver. Thats it.
"Where's the fix for Vista?"
For what exactly is this troll talking about?
"its operating system business is in such dangerous disarray."
No, you dont understand what you are talking about at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windo ...
This article is a *PERFECT* demonstration of the kind of empty-headed, know-nothing trolling vitrol that MS has to endure day in and day out.
The man is doing one thing: Trolling the internet for attention (and thus ad revenue / justification for his job) and *USING* MSFT as a method to do it.
Bury this garbage.- sk11, on 05/15/2008, -3/+3LEAVE MICROSOFT ALONEEEEEEE!!!
- Fangsinmybeard, on 05/15/2008, -5/+7What would anyone expect from a monopoly? They just want money. It doesn't matter if a product is worthless and costs users billions of dollars in lost revenue. They are making billions, why should they care. They want to give us warmed over ***** and say it is "new" and "fancy". The biggest drawback from all of this is that MS has charted this route for over a decade. Win XP was fluke like win 95, some poeple in the company were smart enough to write good code, except for Bill.
- Olfster, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2My thought exactly. A monopoly cares not of the product it disseminates even if it is manure. Good product bad product they still make money.
- orientis, on 05/15/2008, -5/+2I can't wait til TouchWall is ubiquitous. I couldn't give a ***** about Vista. Does that answer your question?
- discoloda, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2Is it just me or does the technology shown by the second video seem more complete? TouchWall didn't display anything about how to move the content around or even generate it. The second video even had a built in keyboard.
Another "Look at me!" attempt by Microsoft... They realy need to build a POSIX compatable system using Singularity OS. If windows 7 is built on Vista codebase, then they cannot be serious about making OSs anymore. The win32 API needs to be dropped, with capatability layers for older software as a seperate thing, away from the OS.
this new comment thing realy sucks btw, every key i type makes the text area jump.- DarkShroud, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Vista SP1 is based on Server 2008 code. It's also the 6th generation of NT technology. Windows 7 will be the 7th generation of NT technology and will be either new code or also based on the server 2008 code base.
- michaelpinto, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Research is different than product development. But even with product development Microsoft is doing cool things like Mesh. It's very fashionable to bash Vista these days, but having used Vista myself it's pretty hard to go back to XP once you get use to it. Vista isn't perfect but it's promising and Microsoft tends to get these things right over time.
- aki009, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1I presume Microsoft gets tax credits for this "R&D". This means that even non-Microsoft customers pitch in (in a small way) via the IRS.
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