“A Microsoft exec blasted rival Apple Inc. on Wednesday, calling the company’s apps ‘struggling’ and ‘lightweight,'” Benjamin Pimentel reports for Microsoft.
“Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for communications, also argued that Microsoft’s tablets were better than Apple’s new iPads,” Pimentel reports. “Reacting to news that Apple was dropping its fees for its iWork suite of apps, Shaw said in a blog post, ‘Now, since iWork has never gotten much traction, and was already priced like an afterthought, it’s hardly that surprising or significant a move.'”
“He also downplayed Apple’s rollout of new iPad devices, saying Microsoft’s Surface and Surface 2 ‘are less expensive than the iPad 2 and iPad Air respectively, and yet offer more storage, both onboard and in the cloud,'” Pimentel reports. “‘When I see Apple drop the price of their struggling, lightweight productivity apps, I don’t see a shot across our bow, I see an attempt to play catch up,’ he wrote. ‘I think they, like others, are waking up to the fact that we’ve built a better solution for people everywhere, who are getting things done from anywhere, and who don’t have hard lines between their personal and professional lives. People who want a single, simple, affordable device with the power and flexibility to enhance and support their whole day. :-)'”
MacDailyNews Take: The delusion is strong with this one. He’s a perfect fit at beleaguered Microsoft.
Pimentel reports, “He did not discuss Apple’s surprising move to make its new Mac operating system known as ‘Mavericks’ available free of charge.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What about free operating systems, insipid corporate mouthpiece?
Hello? What’s the matter,
catsurf break got your tongue?Hey, shouldn’t you be out combing the circus for your next CEO?
And, oh, yes, we do love the smell of fear in the evening!
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I actually never said Linux was failing. I just mentioned that as just one of many Anti-Linux FUD that M$ has had been spreading since the mid-90s. I actually really like Linux. (Especially Ubuntu)
Ok,
This guy has overdosed on the Ballmer shit shake. Gobbled way to much already. Can’t you hear it gushing back out of his mouth. I hear it, loud and clear.
Hey now… Don’t make Clippy angry hey may start throwing chairs & poke you in the eye.
My blog post for this is elsewhere, but Apple giving away software is not new. It has just been a while. From the advent of the Macintosh until the introduction of System 7 the Macintosh system software was free. All you had to do was take a disk to an Authorized Apple dealer, and they would load up the new System and Finder. Free for nothing. Apple isn’t making a lot of noise about it, but giving the OS away for free is a return to the Jobsian ideal. The Windows era is over.
Only one simple reply on the iPad is needed “170 million sold” all that needs to be said!
Keynote has been better than powerpoint since it came out. I still use Word and Excel. Word because of Endnote and because everyone I work on documents with uses it. Excel because I have years of custom made templates for my needs. I use Pages and Numbers for some purposes. So, while I thin parts of Office are stronger, it is not a clear cut case.
Regardless, when consumers start to sniff that office suites and OSes should be free, it will be a problem for MS.
So this is “not a shot across the bow” in the same way that the iPhone and iPad were “not”.
“Ewwww that smell! Can’t ya smell the smell? Ewwww that smell! The smell of IT surrounds you…..”
In this case we know that “it” is spelled F•E•A•R!
Microshits Exec Frank Shaw is very frank indeed about Microshit providing an affordable tablet, it was so affordable that they sold it at a loss each unit and had a $900 million loss / write off. 😀 the 2nd gen surface will do the same, sell at a loss
Bloatware Windows and bloatware Office needs bloatware executives with bloatware messages. A unified experience for sure.
Yes, a brain dead M$ … I’m laughing a lot.
The wailings of a dead company.
The Microsoft dinosaur has seen the meteor which will make them extinct.
‘Innovate or die’ The basic rule of business that even massive corporations forget at their peril.
Microsoft, google, Samsung have victims.
Apple has evangelist customers that love the products and the uniquely intuitive user experience.
You wanna know how to make a great company? Deliver the best product or service possible to your clients.
Pray tell me the difference between a Surface and a Surface 2 other than the name. Maybe the just renames the duds in inventory to see if the could recoup some of the $900 mm.
And for a bit of fun, if you can be bothered, head on over to chief Microsoft apologist Paul Thurrott’s web site, winsupersite.com and check out the ridiculous comments!
Sour grapes.
The new iPad is just another $500 subsidized phone touch pad thingie majiggie. MS has NOTHING to worry about.
/sarcasm
Who would have known that planting your nose up Ballmer’s ass produced hallucinations?
Its like magic mushrooms but without the magic.
Pass that Kool-Aide jug around some more as you are on your way to M/S liquidation hearings….