“Craig Mundie is one of two men taking over for Bill Gates,” David E. Williams reports for CNN. “Microsoft’s Craig Mundie has some big shoes to fill when Bill Gates steps down next year — or at least one shoe anyway.”
MacDailyNews Take: Good news! If he’s half the man Gates is, he should only be able to steal half of Apple’s stuff.
Williams continues, “Gates tapped Mundie, the software giant’s chief research and strategy officer, and chief software architect Ray Ozzie to replace him and handle the day-to-day operation of the company so he can focus on his charitable foundation.”
Mundie sat down with CNN.com’s David E. Williams to discuss some of the issues facing Microsoft. One question centered on Apple’s iPhone:
Williams: So do you see Microsoft doing something like Apple’s iPhone in the future?
Mundie: Well, Microsoft has been in the phone business for years. What do you think that thing is (pointing to a cell phone on the table)? That does more than an iPhone does today and it’s our 7th generation.
MacDailyNews Take: Mundie ought to be Microsoft’s chief comedian. Do they really think anybody believes this nonsense?
We’ll spare you the rest as Mundie continues his answer by listing Microsoft’s usual iPhone talking points (see Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone): iPhone’s not for business, it costs too much, because Microsoft has a bunch of partners, they supposedly offer more diverse mediocrity, blah, blah, blah.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The only reason Microsoft Mobile phones do more than Apple’s iPhone does today is because it’s not yet June.
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Sounds like Micro$oft’s standaard approach in action. They used this for “Cairo” (vaporware) 20 years ago; they used it for Vista for the last 5 years: announce features that no one has, bring out products that are poor imitations of what’s already there. And spin out FUD, FUD, and more FUD.
Every one should pause and give thanks that Gates and crew didn’t go into politics…
Mundie is wrong!! You can run *any* 3rd party phone on an iPhone but with a Windows Mobile phone you are stuck with what ever you get on the phone.
With iPhone you can choose your preferred carriers but with Windows Mobile phone you are stuck with Cingular which is possibly the worst of all.
iPhone is very cheap and comes in all kinds of form factors while Windows Mobile phones cost a fortune and come in only one shape and size.
The corporate world is going to get every one of its employees a new iPhone because it can sync seamlessly with their corporate email server, on the other hand poor Windows Mobile does not know the importance of email.
Well, overall Mundie must be really stupid!
Mundie is wrong!! You can run *any* 3rd party phone application on an iPhone but with a Windows Mobile phone you are stuck with what ever you get on the phone.
Speaking of liars, how abou that Scooter Libby?
Covering up good ‘ol Dick Cheney (who actually runs things anyway, The Chief Liar. You don’t think Bush actually makes any “deshishions” himself, do you)?
I thought F.W. sajid he DOESN’T believe in nation building.
I thought he was tough? Leader? Deshishion Maker?
So, where’s Osama Bin Ladin?
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.” (George W. Bush, 09/13/01)
“I don’t know where Bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” (George W. Bush, 03/13/02)
“The CIA has disbanded a unit set up in the 1990s to oversee the spy agency’s hunt for Osama bin Laden and transferred its duties to broader operations that track Islamist militant groups, a U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday.” (Reuters, 07/04/06)
Mundie: “What do you think that thing is (pointing to a cell phone on the table)?”
A: er…..not an iPhone?
“Last I checked, the intelligence communities of Germany, France, Russia, Great Britain and the US all agreed that Iraq possessed WMD’s. “
you need to check again. none of them felt that way.
…note, the white house is NOT an intelligence community.
….much like microsoft, the intelligence is all copied or borrowed, and usually wrong.
Mundle is right about one thing. If the iPhone can’t sync with exchange servers for office email, calendar and contact functionality, then no serious business will buy one. So far, I have not heard that it can. And then it makes it a pretty pricey phone for just consumer functionality.
I know our IT department, despite all personally wanting one will not order them for the business just for that reason.
He is right, Winblows mobile phones do more. I had to constantly fix my partner’s Treo 700w. You would not believe how many settings and other crap you have to go through to do simple stuff. Like it’s desktop counterpart, it does so much that it makes life HELL!
Suck it Up, Cowards.
Who GIVES A SHIT if they had WMD’s? Doesn’t matter. And even if it did, what the f-ck do you call poison gas that kills a few hundred thousand of your citizens — perfume?
Let it go, lefties. Admit it — you’re anti-“getting the job done” and you always will be. March out there to the Islamiscum with f-ckin’ flowers as an offering . . . and watch them slice your f-cking heads off. Daniel Pearl, anyone?
For a period of almost a year, our aircraft patrolling and enforcing the northern and southern no-fly zones were fired on almost every single day. My buddy worked at the base many of them flew out of and confirms it. Yet you f-ckers would say what? Tough sh-t? Yaah, real patriotic, chumps.
Hussein ignored and thumbed his nose at no less than 18 U.N. resolutions aimed at him. That ALONE was reason enough to put the f-cker down. As was our earlier guarantee to the Iraqis that after the earlier action in the 90’s (yes, earlier ACTION, not “first Gulf War” — it’s the SAME WAR, shit-for-brains’. We were operating under a cease-fire in the interim) we wouldn’t abandon them and would take Saddam the F-ck out of power. Of course, we did abandon them.
And now pukes like you want to abandon the job YET AGAIN! It’s f-cking UNREALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!! Are you sure you’re AMERICANS? Do you quit on EVERYTHING you do?
Do you REALLY want the United States to retrench and have the fight come to OUR shores???
You’re doing NOTHING but confirming what Bin Laden claimed — that we’re nothing but paper tigers who’ll cut and run when the going gets a little tough or we get bored. You remember, right? That little Somalia thing that happened under the dickboy Clinton. More concerned with using the Oval Office for pussy hunts than for, ya know, actually GOVERNING!
Somalia, bombing pill factories, treating the World Trade Center ’93 attack and the U.S.S. Cole as “law enforcement” issues. Well, I suppose that being one of only TWO U.S. Presidents to ever be IMPEACHED must keep ya kinda busy.
You lefties are playing RIGHT INTO AL QAIDA’S HANDS with your calls to quit before the job is done. You make America look more and more like what many fear it is becoming: A weak, ineffective, barker with no bite. There’s far, far lower death rates in Baghdad than in many major American cities, yet “the cost is just too high”. Boo-frickety-hoo.
Go tell it to one of your no-doubt heroes, Neville Chamberlain.
Fellow posters:
In your rush to jump on Microsoft’s case, I think you’re missing the real weakness in Mundie’s argument.
First, I do not think that Muncie is suggesting that Windows Mobile phones have more features than the Iphone because the Iphone does not yet exist. As much as you may hate the man, give him more credit than using a cheap semantic trick like that.
Second, I think it is quite possible that existing Windows phones have more features than the upcoming Iphone. But remember, more is not necessarily better. Using the Ipod as an example, many, many other MP3 players have “more” features than the Ipod. Some have built in radio or wifi. Some are bigger, some are smaller, some have more storage, better battery life, etc. But the Ipod has hit the sweet spot that covers the core 80% of the desires of the consumer. When you give anything TOO many features, you have to compromise somewhere/everywhere. I think this is one of Microsoft’s problems. They try to get every device to do everything. And it therefore does nothing well.
Third, and you already know this, it is not how many features you have or even how well they work, it is how well they work together. And how intuitively. The genius of Apple is not in creating new things. Almost everything contained in the proposed Iphone already exists in one form or another. The genius of Apple is getting machines to work the way human’s think. In other words, intuitively.
Which brings me to why Muncie’s statement is such a terrible, if inadvertant, admission. Microsoft has had all (and more?) of the features of the Iphone and has created 7 generations of phones and they haven’t come close to creating anything that WORKS. And certainly nothing that works like an Iphone.
Ozzie & Harriet
I suggest MDN creates a new site:
PoliticsDailyNews
so people can post their non-Mac views on there, because I’m tired of wading through all this shit.
Back on topic (and please try to keep it here PLEASE), does anyone think that Craig Mundie actually BELIEVES what comes out of his mouth? If he does, he needs a drugs test, ASAP.
iPhone will rule, time to buy Apple Stock while the price is good.
My $0.02
Grreat balls of fire, Captin. When that iPhone thing ships, it’ll doo more than ma communicaturr! Could ye beam one over tae the glens o’ Scotland?
To America first:
Do you have rabies?
America First (that’s a laff aready!)
“what the f-ck do you call poison gas that kills a few hundred thousand of your citizens — perfume?”
No… I call it “Made in the USA” and sold to Saddam to kill innocent men, women and children!
Dumbass.
Well, Microsoft has been in the phone business for years… That does more than an iPhone does today and it’s our 7th generation.
HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!! In your dreams, Mr. Microshit!
I found it especially amusing when Mundie made a comment about people being on the “wrong side” of the digital tracks – eluding to the thought that you either buy Microsoft or you are wrong. His statements don’t surprise me.
At the end of the interview, Mundie commented on Apple’s vertical integration of the iPhone. Apple provided a vertically integrated package with the iPod. That package is what has given the iPod its vast customer appeal. I suspect that Apple’s vertical integration with the iPhone will also give it similar market appeal – much to the disappointment of Mr. Mundie.
America First, you are a yahoo.
“: A weak, ineffective, barker with no bite.”
That would be George Bush.
How come we’re not tough on N. Korea?
Because G.W. is a chicken-shit pussy.
Like Cheney.
$8 Billion a month. Now, remind me again, WHO attacked us?
“Do you REALLY want the United States to retrench and have the fight come to OUR shores???”
WWWHHHAAATTTT?
HAHAHAHAH!
WHO is coming here?
The Shiite and Sunni, are going to come HERE to fight their turf battle?
The one that began in the SEVENTH CENTURY?
America First, don’t post any more, go drink some more beer, dumbass redneck.
And personally, I’d LOVE to get a blowjob in the oval office.
Clinton should’ve refused to answer the hypocrite republicans.
poo said – “No… I call it “Made in the USA” and sold to Saddam to kill innocent men, women and children!”
Naa – try France and the former Soviet Union, purveyors of fine munitions to Saddam for many years. Chirak and Saddam were good buddies. During the first Persian Gulf War the Iraq air force flew their Mirage jet fighters to Iran to escape total destuction by U.S. air power. The U.S. also had to dispense with many Soviet-built T-76 tanks in Saddam’s arsenal. It’s a good bet that France and the former Soviet Union supplied Saddam with the basic ingredients for his ‘nonexistent’ WMDs.
The only argument M$ has ever offered for why it’s not for business is that the iPhone does not have a keyboard. That’s pretty lame. that’s like saying the starship Enterpise E doesn’t have a ski slope even though the holodeck can create one on command.
It’s much lamer than that.
It’d be like MS saying the Enterprise isn’t a real ship because it doesn’t have a propeller.
MS has no concept of sensible progress, or keeping design relevant and clean.
Always Right (wrong) said:”: A weak, ineffective, barker with no bite.”
“That would be George Bush.
How come we’re not tough on N. Korea?
Because G.W. is a chicken-shit pussy.
Like Cheney.”
So that implies that you want Bush to blow N. Korean off the face of the Earth. I’m glad YOU ain’t the leader of the free world!
Alway Right (wrong) also said: “WHO is coming here?
The Shiite and Sunni, are going to come HERE to fight their turf battle?”
Try Al Qaeda. It only took a couple of them to murder about 3,000 innocent people. Furthermore, the terrorists of Al Qaeda were training for the fateful flight during Bill Clinton’s time in office. Ask some commercial pilots how long it takes to get to the level of flying jet aircraft. They told me that it takes about three to five years when you begin with your first single-engine pilot’s license. It’s too bad that Clinton didn’t take the first attack on the World Trade Center seriously. 911 could have been averted and consequentially Afganistan and Iraq.
911 could have been averted and consequentially Afganistan and Iraq.
And most (if not all) of this could’ve been avoided if Bush I would’ve had the balls to finish the job in 1991…
WHO is coming here?
The Shiite and Sunni, are going to come HERE to fight their turf battle?
Like @ said, Al Qaeda.
Show them any weakness, and they’ll only be emboldened to chase down the “infidels” who “stole” their treasure (oil) and killed their brothers. Just like they did on 9/11.
This rabid political polarization is insane. Very sad to think nothing will improve until a major Western city gets hit hard (again).
While we argue, they plan…
Note to Mundie: Way to not get the point, dude!
It’s not about how many boxes you can check off on a features list, it’s how easy the product is to use. This is why Word and Excel (and especially PowerPoint) are such a major pain in the ass to use.
The most important part in any product planning at Apple is deciding what it *shouldn’t* do.
-jcr
Note to Mundie: Way to not get the point, dude!
It’s not about how many boxes you can check off on a features list, it’s how easy the product is to use. This is why Word and Excel (and especially PowerPoint) are such a major pain in the ass to use.
The most important part in any product planning at Apple is deciding what it *shouldn’t* do.
-jcr