Leonhard writes, “I believe the slides demonstrate, beyond any doubt, that Microsoft — at least the sales force — has an incurable case of cluelessness.”
“Microsoft is trying to sell a decade-old bloated software design grafted onto decade-old hardware,” Leonhard writes. “The upstart whippersnappers have a simpler, nimbler alternative, that’s finger-swiping easy to use. Sure, some applications in the enterprise need all of that bloat — Office and SharePoint and locked-down security with giant SQL back ends — but many people don’t want the overhead, don’t want the pain, don’t want to waste their time learning arcane details, and just want to get on with it.”
“Corporate IT departments have two choices: They can try to keep the inevitable from happening, throw up organizational roadblocks, and force their users to buy archaic equipment. Or they can run out in front of the band and pretend that they’re leading it,” Leonhard writes. “A year from now, where do you want to be?”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Charles S.” for the heads up.]
In my mind’s eye: Ballmer’s face on the giant screen, barking at the people, who are rolling around, helplessly with laughter…
George Orwell meets Monty Python.
Ouch! I love it.
You can defrag the hard drive in a Windows tablet. You can run anti-virus scans. You can bring up the Task Manager. Can you do those things with an iPad? Can you??
@Bubbles
Priceless!
“Corporate IT departments…can try to keep the inevitable from happening, throw up organizational roadblocks, and force their users to buy archaic equipment.”
But that’s what they do.
That’s all they do.
Reading the reader comments in InfoWorld is pretty hilarious. The knuckle-draggers are out in force saying why Windows is great and the author doesn’t know enterprise.
Being a blacksmith when everyone is starting to drive cars must be pretty tough on the psyche.
But it will have a “control-alt-delete” button. Woo hoo!
Don’t forget the stylus for lighting fast data input. Beats multitouch any day. Why use five fingers for convenient and intuitive input when you can use a space-age plastic pen that is easily totable and meets industry standards for compatibility with every pocket protector? And don’t forget, if you lose your stylus, you can always use a retracted pen in its place until you can order a new one. And this just in from the Microsoft R&D department, all future styluses will double as rectal thermometers (suggested by Balmer himself) and toothpicks.
The sheer, obvious stupidity of Microsofts empty suits is painful. How about, since Microsoft is a F$&@ING SOFTWARE COMPANY (!), they leverage the popularity of the iPad to get killer software into the iOS and maintain their presence in enterprise even as iOS devices flourish. That it what any intelligent, forward thinking CUSTOMER FOCUSED organization would so. The number of technology companies whose products my company installs grows every single day, from AV control products like Crestron (selling a 99$ iOS app that let’s you use a 600$ iPad in place of their multiple thousands of dollars touchpanels) and a company I guarantee the overwhelming majority have never heard of that integrates multiple vendor cameras and encoders into software controlled CCTV system that released an iOS remote viewer/security monitor. And the list grows weekly. These companies are knowingly supporting a platform that even with licenses undercuts some of their own products because *they* recognize a chance to better support customers and leverage the popularity of a class of mobile devices to enhance their brand.
What does Microsoft, the worlds largest SOFTWARE company have?
PowerPoint slides. Pathetic.
“Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, ………”
On the train I saw a person using a windows tablet…. several things I noticed.
A) It looked like something from 1998 (it was actually using windows 98
B) the pen was attached to a string and the pen actually had a mouse on screen. the pen was manipulating a pointer on the screen.
C) the person was a grouchy person..When the train arrived at the station she had put the tablet in a wheel-able luggage and used that to transport it. with about 300 people all moving in one direction, all on top of each other, I accidently hit it with my foot. The person stopped, turned around, and gave me the death stair.
At my company, IT forces practically everyone to use Dell craptops while all the IT guys are getting brand new MacBook Pros. What’s wrong with this picture?
Looks like the FUD machine isnt working any more. Hm, what else they got?
Clueless PowerPoint slides will work against some clueless IT “pros” who will relate to the slides as personal advantages in maintaining their hold over clueless “managers” who rely on the (maybe not so) clueless IT witch doctors to manage the ghosts and spirits that reside in their computer thingies…..
They are replacing our laptops at work, so I requested a Mac (any), They said our customers does not have Mac so we don’t need it. He doesn’t know the Mac also run windows (a lot better).
That is the problem in the enterprise, Big Corporate IT ignorance.
IT= :Ignorant Technology.
If you just ate, DO NOT LOOK AT THOSE SLIDES!!!
For the love of God, do not look at those slides!!!
Clueless is as clueless does.
The ‘Death Stair’…
It’s the Naughty Step for adults
the scary thing is, Microsoft isn’t only ‘fighting’ apple, they’re also fighting google now. They not only lost to Apple, they lost to another company. They’re two steps behind now. “Don’t buy an iPad!, Don’t buy an Android pad either! Buy ours! buy ours!”
sheesh.
Well that sucks. No way the iPad or Macs will grow if you don’t have to defrag the drive.
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I think they mean “decadeS” old, not “decade old”
M-O-O-N spells moon.
While Microsoft puts out this propaganda, they also just spent CES explaining how they are making Windows more like iOS. Microsoft knows they’ve been out-manuevered by Apple, but they have no choice; they can’t sell what they don’t have today. Clueless and desperate.