Therefore I conclude, and Ballmer has demonstrated, that the more a company talks about innovation, the less innovation it has. Microsoft talks about innovation, but it has none. Apple doesn’t talk about innovation, and that is just about all they do.

I walked into an Apple Store. An employee asked if he could help me, and I said, “No, I just came to see if you invented something I didn’t know I needed.”

——RM

Turns out that’s a good way to make people hate you and root for your demise.

1. FAILURE
they failed since day 1 1975-04-04 (Apple founded 1976-04-01). Windows 1.0 launched 1985-11-20, 21 months after MacOS 1 (1984-01-24).

2. BITCH
MSFT’s entire point was whoring itself (licensing) to all manufacturers for monopolizing domination, hm, dominatrix.

3. DILUTION
whoring yourself, spreading your legs so widely, only results in quality dilution. chaos. diarrhea. viruses. shall one go on? Msft is no different from Michael Dull Dell. he’s hailed as a genius yet come on, what has he accomplished besides diluting PCs so much, it’s raw shit? if that’s innovation, help humanity!

4. DISGUST
taste was never its forté. not in OS. not in software. not in marketing. not in packaging. not in UI. not in expos. not in business practices. not in innovation. not in management i.e monkey CEOs. not in nada. definitely the least sexy co. worldwide!

5. FLOP
msft has not succeeded in any venture or project in over a decade, whilst apple has catapulted to the stratosphere. msft, once a stock darling, has been surpassed by apple it gave $1B to in 1997, by 2010 May1, when AAPL’s cap reached $221B vs msft $219B. aapl has never budged since & msft is now worth a measly $27/share or $225B whilst aapl is $540/share or $500B.

in last decade msft lost more than 1/2 its worth and Billy Gates of Hell lost as much of his personal fortune, no longer making him the world’s richest man or its smartest as he keeps failing in advising his schmuck neanderthal ceo to behave like a human and think at least.

Media Center?
Surface Table?
Surface tablet?
Zune?
Windows Mobile?
Vista? Longhorn? Win 7? Win Me?

all total flops. either doa or rotting.

what about those 100 smartest scientists around the world msft hired at $1M salary + bonus each that in 20 years have produced jack shit of value to society?!

6. etc.
i could list an endless dirty laundry list of why msft was doomed from day 1.

the only reason it took msft 3 decades to start bleeding is thanks to long-term contractual licensing with corporate buyers, not to mention breaking contracts has penalty clauses and to change one’s entire system is costly as well. from the consumer point, msft has lost a long time ago.
so, finally it started to bleed.

for in today’s open, social culture world, middle-age-type journalism of the 70s/80s no longer fools the public who is much more aware of scams, media lies, disinfo, bribed journalism, irresponsible news networks etc.

IT used to rule firms. they lied to management about Macs etc. as problem-free or problem-less equipment cuts their jobs. you still feel that pressure today, as corporations still have Blackberries or Androids for droids (non-human robots) vs Apple’s more humane solutions, though it’s improving as managers finally bypass IT.

then again, if Big Blue, IBM, which cornered the market like a God, failed, disappeared, at least with PC/OS biz, as they now sell commercial carpets & tiles! (besides their successful IT consulting biz), why in the world would a much more stupid msft surpass or beat IBM?! msft’s monopoly is, but the bleeding won’t stop. as they say in germany: water has no head, it escapes, oozes no matter where. blood is not much thicker.

msft has been doa since day one. even as a high schooler i knew it, told the daughter of the head of ibm in london in 1986. so, for those of us, who think, think different, think beyond the hype or media lies, who see things clearly, we always knew it wouldn’t last.

some of us partied a long time by investing in msft early but those glory days are long gone. funny that some of those “smart” early investors fell just as asleep as msft and didn’t sell before the bleeding, believing in the stupidity that always was a pipe dream.

sure, it’s sad, as msft outsources and allows so many lives, yet selling shit can only fool people for so long. as much as it helped pay outsourced salaries, it screwed with users’ lives, in wasting time with chaos, crashes, viruses, upgrades and wasting so much time & money, that it was never worth it. its fans were so much in it, like scientology, that it was a pain to find alternatives. but consumers & corps. have finally shifted their stubbornness.

when shit hits the fan, it’s time to find alternatives. life nowadays is not about bloatware but zenware. experience, not buttons or menus.

SUCCESS:
let’s hand it to msft:
they have flopped or failed the least in only 1 domain: it knows best, of any co. worldwide, how to bleedin’ waste money! it is totally sinful to waste billions on nothing. if you waste it anyway, at least give it tot he needy, homeless, hungry, uneducated, or fix the usa’s worst infrastructure in the western world!

Doom mongering has been a human institution since the dawn of time and promises to be a growth industry now among certain dissatisfied and disenfranchised elements.

It’s as if there is some sort of double agent who has been planted in Management somewhere there at Microsoft, who has Jedi powers over everyone else: “The ribbon interface is good and efficient; people will like it” and all you doofuses believe the guy.

Get with the program for God’s sake.

It’s not like Apple is failing or struggling.

Bill Gates left at the right time.

The new generations of tech users think Microsoft is totally irrelevant.

It certainly is game over, may rake 20yrs but unless they totally change their culture and business model Microsoft is dead.

Oh, one more thing: I absolutely LOVE the ‘Comments are closed’ at the bottom.
I imagine thousands of M$ dweebs reading the article and readying their scathing replies, only to find they’re shut out. The author may not have a firm grasp of Her Majesty’s English, but he IS astute.

Whereas your first sentence is a shocker, your second is a fragment, and the last sentence looks a bit retarded as well.

C-

Can’t think why Microsoft got distracted by this mobile thing and can’t seem to either shake it off or make it work.

Could be those dweebs in Redmond, too, got lucky for a bit, chewed the cud too long and will be replaced by and by, with someone who knows what’s what.

Now, MSFT want to have one OS to fit both mobile and desktop platforms. I certainly don’t want to be DRI for the power management codes and other like tasks!!

No, I’m not high. It’s past my bedtime. Where did I put teddy?

Maybe not cold down in Hell yet, but cold from the approaching iceberg…

By contrast, a “gadget” as you call them is truly a personal device. Everyone has their own phone and their own tablet. Read Asymco.com, the numbers are astounding… These new platforms or phone and tablet have the potential of outgrowing the PC installed base very quickly. The numbers new activations are already exponentially greater than sales of new desktop PCs.

The fact is that desktop PCs are being replaced by the smaller devices as the general purpose computing device of choice, and desktop PCs are relegated to more and more specialized tasks performed by the few.

Apple already recognized that years ago, and developed “Mac OS on ARM” (iOS) in anticipation. Apple really is years ahead, but no-one seems to realize it. The greatest secret is that you get something called an i”Phone” but really get a pocket Mac with a phone app.

Apple has gotten screwed, screwed, screwed by Enterprise IT doofuses for decades. They gave it a long, brave try with Mac OS Server and the XServe series. There were a few kewl peaks of interest. But it never caught on. Apple pulled their RAID server gear. The next year (that’s THIS year, 2012) the XServe died the death from lack of sales.

Be glad the Mac Pro lives on. It’s NOT gonna die. There are plenty of us who would LYNCH Apple if they killed the Mac Pro. And it DOES make a profit for Apple.

IOW: Shut up ppeterson until you’ve come down from your bad trip.

OH AND: You might try posting as something OTHER than an anonymous coward.

1) BUY game console market share.

2) SELL games.

And never forget:

THE RED RING OF DEATH

The rules in Redmond were, “Do not change anything unless it is to crush someone doing something innovative”. They didn’t unless they did, and it worked. And the market stagnated…

A FEW DECADES LATE GETTING THE CLUE FOLKS!

But it happened at long, fracking last. What do we call this phenomenon? The Delayed IQ Effect?

MS Titanic is slow to change course & once they when an iceberg appears off the bow, they cannot correct themselves fast enough…

Kaboom, abandon ship matey!