“Microsoft could re-think plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by June 30 if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said,” Reuters reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Delusional, mouth-powered-bulb-lighting, one-lucky-dorm-assignment, coattail-riding, monkey-boy-dancing, tongue-flapping, unqualified, bad-decision-making, crazy-ass… May he stay Microsoft’s CEO for as long as it takes!
Reuters continues, “‘XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies we can always wake up smarter but right now we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments,’ Ballmer told a news conference on Thursday.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Wake up smarter?” Typical CEO-speak nonsense. And, to anyone who says that Bill Gates is smart, we need only offer up his choice of CEO in rebuttal. We’d only be wrong if Gates’ secret goal is to see the company decimated within his lifetime.
Reuters continues, “Ballmer was speaking at a news conference called to announce the establishment of an ‘innovation centre’ in the Belgian city of Mons.”
MacDailyNews Take: What’s this “innovation centre” got, a direct satellite feed of Apple’s R&D department in Cupertino, CA? Or is it just a FedEx delivery point for Apple’s latest OSes, hardware, and applications like they have in Redmond?
Reuters continues in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Shawn P” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: The Associated Press reports that “Some 160,000 people already have signed an online Save XP Web petition who want Microsoft to keep selling it until the next version of Windows is released, currently targeted for 2010.” Full article here.
I had to scroll the awful row of photos off of the screen so I could concentrate on the story. Dance monkey boy!
“Some 160,000 people already have signed an online Save XP Web petition”
Add to that the fact that Vista adoption in enterprise is almost nil, and that many, many consumers who receive Vista pre-installed on a new machine are “downgrading” to XP.
But Ballmer insists that there is no demand to extend the life of XP.
What an absolute imbecile. What a moron. What a maroon!
If it weren’t for the fact that a cornered animal is very dangerous, he’s the perfect leader to take Microsoft into the next decade.
To anyone who says that Bill Gates is smart, we need only offer up his choice of CEO in rebuttal.
In (I think) last week’s issue of Time, Gates suggested that Ballmer should be considered for its year-end list of the 100 most influential people because of all he’s done for the tech world. The only explanation I can think of is that Ballmer must have incriminating photos of Bill from college or something.
Yes XP is better and more stable than Vista, it’s better than the latest Mac OS as well IMHO.
I played with a Mac for a few hours today, I didnt like it at all, the icons look very amateurish and it’s harder to find things on Mac.
Lets see…
Shoot your foot, then place in mouth. Sounds about right.
His photo reminds me of that demon clown of Spawn. Yikes!
Innovation Center in Belgian City of Mons.
Translation: What’s with these Europeans? Why are they always fining us? We need to find a mechanism to throw some of this filthy lucre their way. Just sending checks would be too obvious. We need to create an innovation center there so we can send billions and billions of dollars there and they will of course be spent on … innovation. Ya. That’s it. European innovation. Maybe that will shut them up.
May Sith Ballmer reign o’er the Redmond kingdom for ever more.
I read that Ballmer’s tongue is getting its own talk show.
Gates’ butt is the first scheduled guest. They’ll sit around a big ass table, chat about the future of technology innovation with lots of blue screen effects for highlights. You must be MCSE certified to be in the studio audience. No exceptions.
“Some 160,000 people already have signed an online Save XP Web petition . . .”
That’s one helluva large mental hospital.
My ex just bought an PeeCee laptop with Windows Vista Home Basic and was going “loco” to get it for the first run.
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Install all the Virus Soft and so on……
After a couple of hours playing around she could connect to internet wireless over my Time Capsule. Yipiiiieeee…
Now, after a couple of day’s she want to install the XP that she is using in her office.
” . . . many, many consumers who receive Vista pre-installed on a new machine are “downgrading” to XP.”
Brilliant! They’re selling an OS they won’t have to support.
Lord knows where that tongue has been…..
Go ahead, dump XP. Then watch IT departments start to abandon your platform. It’s happening already. Vista sucks ass (so that’s where his tongue has been!) so if you want to spell doom for your poor example of a company, keep pushing Vista on everyone in the enterprise.
Ballmer, you are a fast sack of shit.
@ XP Better
Well, at least you gave it a real thorough testing. Those “few hours” away from Mine Sweeper must have been devastating?!?
(sp) …a fat sack of shit.
You forgot “…chair throwin’,…”
@ Ampar
Yep. I understand the big ass table was designed to work best when directed with tongue imput. Everybody leans over the big ass table with their big asses in the air and starts licking and pushing, and …pretty soon along comes Ballmer to …survey all that he does rule.
Has ganja been decriminalized in Washington State?? Cuz he’s smoking something. . . and it’s something he can’t handle too well.
@xp better
Hey, no hard feelings…, You’re the one, and there’s one in every crowd. I hope MS extends the life of XP for your sake.
@ XP Better, you are clueless. Ever heard of Spotlight?
@Ampar,
Those 160,000+ signers of that XP petition are 160,000+ potential Mac converts of MS doesn’t care about the petition. And that’s just the beginning. Hopefully we can pull most of them out of Bellevue.
Of course, there is not a big demand. The smart ones are switching to Macs, the ones that have already upgraded to Vista can’t send email to voice their protest, the ones that haven’t upgraded don’t believe that Vista could possibly be as bad as they have heard, and the rest of them can’t read or write.
MDN Magic Word needs – as in who needs this?
@ XP Better: “the icons look very amateurish”
Yea, it can be hard to ween yourself off of a Fischer-Price color scheme.
What’s important to note here is that we, the end users, are not Microsoft’s customers, therefore our feedback is not heard.
MSFT’s customers are manufacturers (via OEM licenses) and corporations with volume licenses.
Then again, the bad communication between MSFT and its customers should surprise no one, after Vista’s driver fiasco…
Once again, it shows how convenient the current business model is in MSFT’s world for MSFT interests, but no one else’s.
Apparantly the Mac is too successful in the French-speaking part of Belgium. Hence that innovation center, I suppose. MS tries to line up politicians who think making agreements with MS will enhance their carreers, but they may be taken down with beleaguered MS.
“Ballmer was speaking at a news conference called to announce the establishment of an ‘innovation centre’ in the Belgian city of Mons.”
It’s probably like the “Microsoft School of the Future” here in Philadelphia. The kids are supposed to teach each other while the teachers lecture to whomever wants to hear it. There are no structured classes at all, and the students are responsible for their own tech support.
Yeah, sounds like Microsucks.