Personally, I’m mainly waiting for the bizarre parallel universe that, if history is any judge, the commercials will inhabit.
One of the technology industry’s big Steves — Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive of Microsoft — on Tuesday promised that Windows tablets won’t take much longer to hit the market and compete with Apple’s popular iPad and upcoming Google Android/Chrome OS tablets. He remarked, “You’ll see new slates with Windows on them. You’ll see them this Christmas.”
Of course “see them this Christmas” could have a variety of meanings — anything from “see them” as be unwrapping them, or “see them” as in reading an online press release that they will be available in March.
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Mr. Ballmer also hit on one of Microsoft other key problem spots — the mobile phone market. Microsoft’s Kin project was a colossal sales failure perpetrated by miserably outdated hardware, bizarre commercials that bordered on disturbing, and a lack of carrier support. At the end of the day Microsoft pulled the plug.Meanwhile, Microsoft’s veteran Windows Mobile brand has languished, bleeding market share to Apple and Google. Microsoft’s answer is a brand-new smart phone operating system dubbed Windows Phone 7, which will air October 11th.
Mr. Ballmer addressed his company’s challenging state of affairs in this sector, summarizing, “The job right now is we’ve got to get back seriously into the game of phones. We’ve got to have a comeback against the competition and I think with our new Windows phones we really have a beautiful product.”
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Never get in a rush to be on the bleeding edge of tech.
The first thing out the door normally bleeps and I think Ipad users will all realize next year that they want to upgrade badly.
The same goes for the Windows and Google products.
An exception could be made for things like the Windows 7 OS where everybody already knew exactly what it was before it shipped; a refined version of Vista and Vista already had the bugs worked out before W7 shipped.
Vista just needed a face lift and a name change for the people who had heard horror stories as told by what people who went into shock that it wasn’t XP and of course it did need a fairly robust computer to run it and those upgradable computers were a huge mistake because they weren’t.
If you want repeat trade do not lie to the client.
I like the iPod, and I’m perfectly fine with the iPhone, since it’s a great touchscreen device to cruise the net with during downtime. Sure, the “no flash” thing is annoying, but not a killer.
All the same, If I were to buy a tablet, it’d have to at least come close to being like a full, though smaller, computer instead of an upsized version of the iPhone or Droid.
#20 Mobil 7 will not have copy & paste at launch. Microsoft said maybe spring 2011.
Apple is not microsoft’s competition in mobil, android is. Apple is the only company that thrive at hardware/software/ecosystem.
MS definitely has good engineers. What they lack is the vision of a true believer in technology. I’d suggest they hire Jeri Ellsworth. Fast.