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Click to view davebarnes's profile New Member 148 posts since
May 12, 2004
15. Jul 26, 2007 10:19 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patienc
@OP

"The annual meeting comes a week after the company reported that for the first time its yearly earnings surpassed $50 billion."

In the USA, that would be revenue, not earnings.
Click to view jpmhughes's profile Member 887 posts since
Jun 15, 2001
16. Jul 26, 2007 10:46 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patienc
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Vista doesnt get done by three people in a garage in three days, said Steve Ballmer."

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Ya see, that's Ballmer's problem.
Many advances in technology have gotten "done by three people in three days".
Once you start thinking like Balmer, you lose perspective.
Yes lose, people, not loose.

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A great misconception in the tech industry is that most successes happen overnight, he said.

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No... No one has this "misconception", inspiration often happens overnight, not success.



"On the devices side, products like Windows Mobile, set-top boxes, Zune and Xbox will be key to Microsofts growth in the devices market", he said."

Ooohh, that's just sad. To think that these devices is what that are counting on. If you have stock.. sell now, seriously, sell now!

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Those hires continue to work in offices around the world and they come from many different countries. As an example of the type of people working at just the Redmond, Wash., headquarters, 1,000 employees there speak Russian, he said.

Those workers will help bring about new innovations during the next ten years, a period that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said he expects will be more exciting than that past 30 years of the companys history.

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Yeah that's it, hire people from outside of the United states. Somehow this will provide the innovation that those three people hanging out in the garage somehow lacked.
That's the ticket!
Ooops I think I dated myself there.

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He demonstrated Microsofts Surface computer offering. Of all the demonstrations that he has done over the decades, this is one that hes been most surprised about how people respond, he said. People very quickly envision complex things that could very easily be done with the technology, he said.

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Ahh yes the amazing "Surface computer". Just what people want, a device that reads any other device in range or placed upon it.
What shall we call this?... Squirting? No already taken (tapping my pencil now)..
I know, how about leaking! No.
Bleeding! No.
Privacy invader. There ya go.


"Hey honey, why does your digital camera have nude photos of our next door neighbor?"
"Huh, does it? Well look at that."

Bet three guys in a garage couldn't come up with that.

Jim
Time to ditch the "dancing monkey boy".

Google it, trust me it is worth it!
I particularly like the part where he obviously hurts his foot, but like the trooper he is, keeps on going like some sort of demonized Energizer bunny.
Click to view MacTel's profile Enthusiast 1,030 posts since
Jun 6, 2005
17. Jul 26, 2007 10:32 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patience
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Those workers will help bring about new innovations during the next ten years, a period that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said he expects will be more exciting than that past 30 years of the companys history.

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Starting with the iPhone and Surface type devices. Microsoft's Surface has a lot of potential but won't reach the masses for quite some time (i.e. 5 to 10 years).
Click to view imagewrangler's profile New Member 36 posts since
May 2, 2007
18. Jul 26, 2007 10:43 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patienc
Translation of Ballmer's words, if nobody's posted yet, is "we're waiting for Apple to innovate another incredible product that we can blatantly try to rip off and pass off as our idea."
Click to view Wondercow's profile Member 337 posts since
Jul 21, 2004
19. Jul 26, 2007 10:56 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patienc
Vista doesnt get done by three people in a garage in three days

Kind of an ironical statement considering Apple was founded by TWO guys in a garage.
Click to view mcbane666's profile Member 396 posts since
Mar 11, 2007
20. Jul 26, 2007 10:57 PM in response to: kingarthur
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Huh innovation? What company are they trying to buy now?

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Wow I hurt a gut on this one
Click to view mcbane666's profile Member 396 posts since
Mar 11, 2007
21. Jul 26, 2007 11:23 PM in response to: mcbane666
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I like how the table has turned

Apple was a hardware developer, microsoft was a software developer.

Mircosoft just started making ok hardware (360) and crappy software (anything after win 98)

Apple has for a while been making Great hardware, and Great software
Click to view MacTel's profile Enthusiast 1,030 posts since
Jun 6, 2005
22. Jul 26, 2007 11:47 PM in response to: imagewrangler
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patienc
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Translation of Ballmer's words, if nobody's posted yet, is "we're waiting for Apple to innovate another incredible product that we can blatantly try to rip off and pass off as our idea."

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Microsofties called Apple "Redmond South". Obviously for good reason as you mention.
Click to view Meatleg's profile New Member 27 posts since
Mar 23, 2007
23. Jul 26, 2007 11:49 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patience
and WHY does it take so long?

well, FIRST micosoft has to wait until Apple innovates.
THEN we have to be very careful to reverse engineer and implement a poor copy of the design of said innovations, while taking great pains to fully ignore the actual purpose of the funcionality so that we dont look like cheaters and patent violators.

this just TAKES a while people...
patience PLEASE!!!
Click to view webstyr's profile New Member 30 posts since
Jan 26, 2004
24. Jul 27, 2007 12:06 AM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patience
Vista doesnt get done by three people in a garage in three days, said Steve Ballmer.

Well, that may be true, but I'd wager that if Vista was done by three people in a grage it might actually work!

I just think it is hillarious that Balmer and M$ are reducing themselves to nothing more than Billboard Content salesmen simply because they have no answer to the onslaught of Apple.

Ha, Ha!
Click to view vr1000's profile New Member 6 posts since
May 15, 2005
25. Jul 27, 2007 12:15 AM in response to: Meatleg
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patienc
The problem that Microsoft has now is the same problem that IBM had as the PC became ubiquitous. Once a company feels it has a market sewn up, it gets a false sense of entitlement. It starts to think that it can do anything and that its customers are lucky to be served by it. What has and will keep Microsoft on top for at least a while longer is their penetration of the enterprise. There is so much inertia and groupthink in big companies that there will be resistance to cheaper, more secure and better solutions like Linux at least a while longer. Also for all its faults Vista is a good development platform, they at least got that right..
Click to view kwill's profile Member 364 posts since
Jun 4, 2004
26. Jul 27, 2007 1:42 AM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patience
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In its fiscal year 2007, Microsoft hired almost 13,000 people, including 4,000 in product development areas, he said. Those hires continue to work in offices around the world and they come from many different countries. As an example of the type of people working at just the Redmond, Wash., headquarters, 1,000 employees there speak Russian, he said.

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Why does this remind me of the tower of Babel?
Click to view aestival's profile Member 247 posts since
Oct 4, 2004
27. Jul 27, 2007 7:05 AM in response to: MW Forums
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Did Microsoft really have to use a rep who looks like a more lumpy (and probably humorless) version of John Hodgman? Their two killer apps appear to be a photo sorter that allows the user to be messy (I can do that with paper photos) and to order room service at a hotel -- leaving aside that you can generally do that via the in-room TV, does Microsoft seriously see hotels as a big new market? Last time I checked they almost all have high-speed internet, so I doubt hotel guests will be dying to learn Microsoft's latest buggy and non-intuitive interface (especially since most of them are trapped using crappy old Windows to start with!)
Click to view warlock7's profile Member 708 posts since
Aug 29, 2004
28. Jul 27, 2007 8:28 AM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Microsofts Ballmer asks investors for patience
Ballmer thinks that Surface is their future?!?!?!

A 10 THOUSAND dollar table with cameras inside making it appear to work like the iPhones multi-touch functionality.

Monkey Boy has lost his friggin' mind!
Click to view 501user's profile New Member 21 posts since
Mar 17, 2007
29. Jul 27, 2007 8:43 AM in response to: MW Forums
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urged shareholders to be patient

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Why should they be? Why not invest elsewhere, if there's a better alternative?

Is he asking for loyalty? When was MS ever loyal to anyone else?

Or is he promising that MS will deliver (perhaps because it has no scruples c.f. in his own words "hell-bent" but let that one pass).

But promises are promises. Why should anyone believe Ballmer? Check the record: he's told so many direct lies to camera it's not believable. According to Ballmer, the iPhone is the "most expensive" phone on the market. That's a direct lie. It's not. Moreover, disregard the dishonest discount-subsidy game on cellphone hardware and look at the overall cost plus plan and it's far cheaper than many totally crappy phones running Windows mobile. According to Ballmer, the Zune has a quarter of the market - only it doesn't: it has around three per cent. Ballmer claimed Windows-based smartphones had nionety percent of the market. Another lie: Symbian has over 70% and Linux-based is next. Windows mobile has a mere six per cent.

There are lies, damned lies, and pronouncements from Monkey Boy.

And the Surface - a.ka. the big ass table - is a joke. Want to talk about guys in a garage: people have been building similar things in garages for years. we're in an era of portable devices and Microsoft comes up with something the size of a small car that has to be in a darkened room to be used. To add insult to injury, the Surface didn't even work for Gates at the latest Microsloth demo.

MS are a standing joke. Buy a Mac, and if you can't afford that get something running Ubuntu from Dell. Why does it matter what Ballmer says?