Comments on: Microsoft needs a new strategy for its Windows platform http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:40:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mark allen roberts http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-115369 mark allen roberts Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:24:06 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-115369 My guess? From Newton in 1990’s to a Mac today? Apple started listening to problems users had and developed products and services that not only solved them, but had an overall experience in the solution. Great blog! Mark My guess?
From Newton in 1990’s to a Mac today? Apple started listening to problems users had and developed products and services that not only solved them, but had an overall experience in the solution.
Great blog!
Mark

]]> By: Wan http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-115194 Wan Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:39:04 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-115194 My notebook come pre-install with Vista. I'm suprise that with high specification, Vista is running so slow. I think Microsoft have this kind of mentality that they think because the company is rich, so everybody are also rich to purchase all that high requirement that Vista need. Oh... Please!! I just uninstall it and install XP + Ubuntu on my notebook. I don't care much about the look of the OS as long as I can finish all my works that had been delayed for quite a while. My notebook come pre-install with Vista. I’m suprise that with high specification, Vista is running so slow.

I think Microsoft have this kind of mentality that they think because the company is rich, so everybody are also rich to purchase all that high requirement that Vista need. Oh… Please!!

I just uninstall it and install XP + Ubuntu on my notebook. I don’t care much about the look of the OS as long as I can finish all my works that had been delayed for quite a while.

]]> By: I run Vista on a Mac http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-114662 I run Vista on a Mac Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:05:30 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-114662 There are so many things you can do on Vista that you can't on XP. I just don't think many people out there are aware of all the new features that work great. The operating system is a bit of a hog and yes I do have problems here and there but overall I like Vista. At the same time I am running Vista on my Mac so maybe that has somehting to do with why I like it :) There are so many things you can do on Vista that you can’t on XP. I just don’t think many people out there are aware of all the new features that work great. The operating system is a bit of a hog and yes I do have problems here and there but overall I like Vista. At the same time I am running Vista on my Mac so maybe that has somehting to do with why I like it :)

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-112048 Tom Raftery Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:56:16 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-112048 Steve, you know as well as I do that that 85m figure is bogus. The majority of that figure is people who got Vista pre-installed on their new computers. How many of those subsequently upgraded to XP? What would be more interesting to know is how many people went and bought boxed copies of Vista. Steve, you know as well as I do that that 85m figure is bogus. The majority of that figure is people who got Vista pre-installed on their new computers. How many of those subsequently upgraded to XP?

What would be more interesting to know is how many people went and bought boxed copies of Vista.

]]> By: steve clayton http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111999 steve clayton Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:06:01 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111999 tom agree apple are doing very well but if we're to judge by financial statements it wasn't a bad week for Microsoft either. 85m copies of Vista sold surely can't be *that* bad? strategy wise, this view was an interesting and balanced one http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6773 Steve tom

agree apple are doing very well but if we’re to judge by financial statements it wasn’t a bad week for Microsoft either.

85m copies of Vista sold surely can’t be *that* bad?
strategy wise, this view was an interesting and balanced one
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6773

Steve

]]> By: Joe Drumgoole http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111865 Joe Drumgoole Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:22:54 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111865 The big problem is not the MS release schedule (which is required because Windows runs on everything) but the fact that Vista just isn't an improvement on XP the way XP improved on Windows 1.0. We've waited a long time for a product that is in many ways worse than XP, with a bigger CPU and memory footprint and an arguably more complex and harder to understand interface. As for Ubuntu, I love linux but I'd still rather run Vista to Ubuntu and I'd prefer OS-X to both. I run OS-X at home but because our users at PutPlace use Windows I feel honour bound to "feel their pain" by running windows in work. I still can't print from Vista. It blue screened on me last night and the WIFI networking is as flakey as the proverbial pastry. All opportunities for somebody.... The big problem is not the MS release schedule (which is required because Windows runs on everything) but the fact that Vista just isn’t an improvement on XP the way XP improved on Windows 1.0. We’ve waited a long time for a product that is in many ways worse than XP, with a bigger CPU and memory footprint and an arguably more complex and harder to understand interface.

As for Ubuntu, I love linux but I’d still rather run Vista to Ubuntu and I’d prefer OS-X to both. I run OS-X at home but because our users at PutPlace use Windows I feel honour bound to “feel their pain” by running windows in work.

I still can’t print from Vista. It blue screened on me last night and the WIFI networking is as flakey as the proverbial pastry.

All opportunities for somebody….

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111857 Tom Raftery Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:04:29 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111857 Keith - LOL Eoghan - I still use the MacBook Pro for audio and video editing where it really shines but for most work (browser based) Ubuntu outperforms even the MBP. As you say, get the OS out of the way, work in the browser. Mark - If Microsoft rented their software and gradually, incrementally improved it (on every patch Tuesday, for example) corporates would love it. They hate short release cycles because of the training overhead and the upgrade disruption but if that was mitigated by very gradual changes over time, automatically updated, that would satisfy corporates. Branedy - agreed! Keith - LOL

Eoghan - I still use the MacBook Pro for audio and video editing where it really shines but for most work (browser based) Ubuntu outperforms even the MBP. As you say, get the OS out of the way, work in the browser.

Mark - If Microsoft rented their software and gradually, incrementally improved it (on every patch Tuesday, for example) corporates would love it. They hate short release cycles because of the training overhead and the upgrade disruption but if that was mitigated by very gradual changes over time, automatically updated, that would satisfy corporates.

Branedy - agreed!

]]> By: Branedy http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111854 Branedy Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:04:59 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111854 <i>Apple enthusiasts, marked for their appreciation of the subtle details that make their lives easier</i> And Microsoft's tragedy (read strategy) is to require users to conform with their Idea of user interfaces and when they change their minds between XP and Vista they expect the user to change their mode of operation to accommodate their Vision (read Vista). Apple enthusiasts, marked for their appreciation of the subtle details that make their lives easier

And Microsoft’s tragedy (read strategy) is to require users to conform with their Idea of user interfaces and when they change their minds between XP and Vista they expect the user to change their mode of operation to accommodate their Vision (read Vista).

]]> By: Mark http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111853 Mark Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:57:46 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111853 Microsoft can't really win with this one. Corporate customers demand long release cycles between OS versions, you'll see countless Win2K images still floating around the place on corporate laptops, while consumers will pay time and again for incremental releases. Apple are consumer focused while Microsoft's target customer are the IT departments in the Fortune 500. Microsoft can’t really win with this one. Corporate customers demand long release cycles between OS versions, you’ll see countless Win2K images still floating around the place on corporate laptops, while consumers will pay time and again for incremental releases.

Apple are consumer focused while Microsoft’s target customer are the IT departments in the Fortune 500.

]]> By: Eoghan McCabe http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111852 Eoghan McCabe Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:32:58 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111852 I really like Apple's iterative approach. Sure, there's a lot of hype about Leopard right now, but not nearly as much as when Vista dropped. The pressure is off Apple to radically overhaul their OS with each new version (in fact, I think a radical overhaul would upset a lot of their customers; Mac OS works so beautifully well as it is) but Apple enthusiasts, marked for their appreciation of the subtle details that make their lives easier, still snap-up and happily pay for the updates with zeal. Microsoft should take note here and focus on the little things that matter, rationalize their Windows range (how many Vista flavours are there?) and just make a good OS. And then listen to your users and make it a little better next year. And then listen to your users and make it a little better next year. And then listen to your users... What happened to your Mac, Tom? Does Firefox do everything you expect of it in Ubuntu (and let you easily use Google apps and so on)? More and more it's just a good browser we need and an OS that gets out of the way. I really like Apple’s iterative approach. Sure, there’s a lot of hype about Leopard right now, but not nearly as much as when Vista dropped. The pressure is off Apple to radically overhaul their OS with each new version (in fact, I think a radical overhaul would upset a lot of their customers; Mac OS works so beautifully well as it is) but Apple enthusiasts, marked for their appreciation of the subtle details that make their lives easier, still snap-up and happily pay for the updates with zeal. Microsoft should take note here and focus on the little things that matter, rationalize their Windows range (how many Vista flavours are there?) and just make a good OS. And then listen to your users and make it a little better next year. And then listen to your users and make it a little better next year. And then listen to your users…

What happened to your Mac, Tom? Does Firefox do everything you expect of it in Ubuntu (and let you easily use Google apps and so on)? More and more it’s just a good browser we need and an OS that gets out of the way.

]]> By: Keith http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111851 Keith Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:25:36 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111851 "You have asked to boot Ubuntu. Are you sure?" -Yes "Security Message: You are trying to boot an operating system. This may cause your computer to do something. Are you sure?" -Yes "Boot system message: You are now booting an operating system. Please confirm you want to do this." -Yes “You have asked to boot Ubuntu. Are you sure?”
-Yes
“Security Message: You are trying to boot an operating system. This may cause your computer to do something. Are you sure?”
-Yes
“Boot system message: You are now booting an operating system. Please confirm you want to do this.”
-Yes

]]> By: Windows Vista News http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111848 Windows Vista News Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:03:50 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/microsoft-needs-a-new-strategy-for-its-windows-platform/#comment-111848 <strong>Microsoft needs a new strategy for its Windows platform...</strong> Interesting: www.tomrafteryit.net... Microsoft needs a new strategy for its Windows platform…

Interesting: http://www.tomrafteryit.net...

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