“It’s taken five years for Microsoft Corp. to roll out a new version of its Windows operating system, so it’s understandable that Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is traveling to New York Thursday to celebrate its release by ringing the bell at the Nasdaq stock market,” John Shinal reports for MarketWatch.
Shinal reports, “But elsewhere in Manhattan, among the Wall Street analysts who cover Microsoft, the shipping of Vista to corporate customers is being greeted with a collective yawn.”
“While there is some debate among industry watchers and financial analysts about how fast corporations will switch to Vista, almost no one is predicting that its launch will have much of an impact on Microsoft’s finance, especially for the fiscal year ending in June,” Shinal reports. “Microsoft and the personal computer market that Windows dominates have changed dramatically in five years… While the most visible change is that the giant of Redmond, Wash., is no longer run by co-founder Bill Gates, no one on Wall Street doubts the abilities of Ballmer, who has been CEO since 2000.”
“Four out of every 10 dollars of Microsoft’s sales now come from products other than Windows and Office,” Shinal reports. “So it’s understandable that no one is expecting Vista to have anywhere near the impact of the release of Windows 95, the revolutionary product that gave users of Microsoft’s operating system the look and feel that previously had been the exclusive pleasure of users of Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh PCs.”
Full article here.
“Apple Computer has released fresh iterations of its OS X operating system on a regular basis, leaping ahead of Windows in security and usability by making regular, incremental improvements,” Brian Caulfield reports for Red Herring. “Meanwhile, Microsoft struggled to lash a fresh batch of innovation together with the massive amount of software and hardware the Windows operating system has to orchestrate. Windows was already so sprawling that Sun Chairman Scott McNealy once referred to Windows as a ‘welded shut hairball.’ ‘It’s being driven by the inability of debugging and development efforts to scale up,’ said Linux advocate Eric Raymond of Vista’s many delays. ‘In other words, Vista is too big to work.'”
“Microsoft’s position atop the PC world makes it a very different company from Apple,” Caulfield reports. “However. Apple’s tight integration of hardware and software means it can move more quickly, and secretively, than Microsoft.”
“Nevertheless, Microsoft will have to find a way to move quicker. Look for the company to introduce a new version of Windows within two years that incorporates small, incremental improvements,” Caulfield reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If no one on Wall Street doubts the abilities of Ballmer, then everyone on Wall Street is an idiot. It’s plain to see that Ballmer is presiding over the fall of Microsoft. May he stay as CEO forever! Obviously, nothing has changed on the Windows front. Windows remains a grotesque, upside-down and backwards, fake Mac produced by a tasteless, derivative, ethically-challenged company.
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The news here in South Florida shoed Vista at 6pm. It didn’t look bad at all. It will make a lot of money for M$, but they are right– it’s not the same as when Win95 came out, or even XP. Apple still has much room to grow share, especially if Leopard makes Vista look bad.
Okay, I just found something that totally has me annoyed.
” rel=”nofollow”>here’s a closer look at the ripped off- yet the “somehow-they-didnt-get-it-right––STILL” look to it. Poor attempt to copy with the reflections, gradients, and 3D charts (or whatever that thing is). Disgraceful.
I was kinda shocked by the release today … then I figured someone at MSFT must be a realist and convinced the PTB that Vista was never going to get any better than it is right now, so why wait any longer? Why try to fix any more bugs? Why worry about pulling more “features” that simply don’t work?
Just release it and end the agony.
I’m no expert, but what can vista do for a business that 2000 or XP cannot?
Apple has been more about users, Microsoft has always been about businesses.
Isn’t microsft just aping the consumer oriented features found on Apple?
Hey, OzzyCross101
That first picture looks like Ballmer ripped someones heart out and is thinking about what it would be like to have one…
Those powerpoints look crappy.
“So it’s understandable that no one is expecting Vista to have anywhere near the impact of the release of Windows 95, the revolutionary product that gave users of Microsoft’s operating system the look and feel that previously had been the exclusive pleasure of users of Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh PCs.”
That’s a contracidction. How is it revolutionary if it previously has been around? 😀
Vista. MDN MW: SUCH
Oops. Typo. Should have been a “K”.
… Look for the company to introduce a new version of Windows within two years that incorporates small, incremental improvements…
Within two years? Must be Service Pack 1.
Ballmer is a cross between Uncle Fester and Gene Simmons
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That’s an excellent question. However, there is no defensible answer except poor writing and even worse editing.
What cracks me up is when people like Grammar Police make posts like that. They post to make themselves feel superior but then are stupid enough to post their REAL EMAIL.
Wow, hard to hide online when your email is jecrawford@mac.com Mr/Ms Grammer Police.
Not only is Grammer Police the online equavilent of a junior high hall monitor, but is also a total putz!