http://www.infosprite.com/2009/05/01/how-time-flies/ vaccuum packed mindless ramblings Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:18:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.infosprite.com/2009/05/01/how-time-flies/comment-page-1/#comment-6515 Rick Sat, 02 May 2009 00:54:11 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=345#comment-6515 I'm not sure 7 is gonna matter much except, as you say, as another example of MMM (Microsoft Muscle Marketing) in which the merits of the technical product are of liitle consequence. I wouldn't be surprized to hear that it fixes all the Vista problems and is "damn near as good as XP!".... and the zombies will flock. I think Apple will surpass Big M somehere along the way just because they're so well intrenched in the mobile market. They've got their own zombies (actually a "Jobs sect", something out of "Stranger In A Strange Land". Jobs: "The aliens will be here soon so you won't need earthly possessions. We'll handle those for you. Don't worry, we know how desperately you need to BE CONNECTED. It's all good: we got it. Just put in your earbuds and crank it up. We'll be serving the Kool-Aid real soon.") So M has missed the mobile thing and the search thing. They're persona-non-grata on every continent except this one. Anyway, my guess is that as yet undeveloped cultures are gonna largely bypass the whole desktop thing altogether.... just go straight to mobile. Cloud? Maybe, but I don't think they're well positioned for that. Unfortunately, as Msoft goes into decline I expect that they'll start hammering anyone who's gotten anywhere near a patent violation. So it may get tough for FOSS with Msoft on one side and MPAA/RIAA on the other demonizing it as the enabler of Dark Side computing. I’m not sure 7 is gonna matter much except, as you say, as another example of MMM (Microsoft Muscle Marketing) in which the merits of the technical product are of liitle consequence. I wouldn’t be surprized to hear that it fixes all the Vista problems and is “damn near as good as XP!”…. and the zombies will flock.
I think Apple will surpass Big M somehere along the way just because they’re so well intrenched in the mobile market. They’ve got their own zombies (actually a “Jobs sect”, something out of “Stranger In A Strange Land”. Jobs: “The aliens will be here soon so you won’t need earthly possessions. We’ll handle those for you. Don’t worry, we know how desperately you need to BE CONNECTED. It’s all good: we got it. Just put in your earbuds and crank it up. We’ll be serving the Kool-Aid real soon.”)
So M has missed the mobile thing and the search thing. They’re persona-non-grata on every continent except this one. Anyway, my guess is that as yet undeveloped cultures are gonna largely bypass the whole desktop thing altogether…. just go straight to mobile. Cloud? Maybe, but I don’t think they’re well positioned for that. Unfortunately, as Msoft goes into decline I expect that they’ll start hammering anyone who’s gotten anywhere near a patent violation.
So it may get tough for FOSS with Msoft on one side and MPAA/RIAA on the other demonizing it as the enabler of Dark Side computing.

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