“Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, won’t release a competitor to Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s tablet operating systems until the 2012 back-to- school season, people with knowledge of the plans said,” Ian King and Dina Bass report for Bloomberg.
MacDailyNews Take: Morbid ineptitude. And those who feel compelled to mention Google Android-based tablets in the same breath as Apple’s iPad, as if they’re somehow equals, only make themselves look foolish and uninformed.
King and Bass continue, “Public testing of a new version of Windows will begin at the end of this year with partners and customers, said the people, who declined to be identified because the plans haven’t been disclosed publicly.”
MacDailyNews Take: Why bother? It won’t matter. And, by the way, Microsoft has had a “Windows for tablets” on the market for the last decade now. But, of course, without Apple showing them what to do, it was all wrong. So, now Microsoft is back at the copiers with iPads in hand. It’s too late already, dummies. Again. It’s iPod and Zune redux. Microsoft is a failure. They got lucky once with a bad Apple contract when Steve Jobs wasn’t there to mind the store that allowed them to copy the Mac OS forever. That luck is rapidly running out.
King and Bass report, “‘If 2011 is the year of the tablet wars, Microsoft will be awfully late suiting up for that battle,’ said Michael Gartenberg, a New Jersey-based analyst for research firm Gartner Inc. ‘It’s not a good position to be in.’ A 2012 debut for Microsoft would likely put it up against a third-generation iPad from Apple… Mark Martin, a spokesman for Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, declined to comment.”
MacDailyNews Take: Mark probably didn’t decline to comment, he likely didn’t hear the question being too busy staring blankly at the wall of his cubicle or playing meaningless internal Microsoft politics, just like most Microsoft drones. Mark, the company your work for is failing. Microsoft is looking like they’re well on their way to becoming the Atari of 2020. Get out while the getting is still semi-good.
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MacDailyNews Take: The amount that Microsoft sucks is now becoming clear to almost everybody. Even the corporate IT doofuses are starting to get an inkling.
If it is going to take Microsoft until back-to-school 2012 to release a “Windows for tablets” OS, what the hell do all those employees in Redmond do all day?!? 10,000 programmers, and if you just left one competent programmer alone, he could probably have had a tablet OS out by now.
Personally I wtill like “Bloom County’s” take on MS:
Microsquish
Just saying it sounds like the swamp they have created in computers..
The swamp Apple has shown everyone how to crawl out of… and the DRY LAND Apple has shown us all how easy computers really are!
Microsquish– may it slog thru it’s own swamp forever.. led into the muck by the dancing monkey throwing his chair in random directions.. Trying to FIND dry land!
It takes time to make spagetti
I wonder if the MS tablet OS will have tiles?!… Hmmm…
But, but, but our iPad Killer tablet has HTML out!- and Flash!!
Oh, wait…
Can we ask MDN to hire Zune Tang and give him a proper column?
Stefano
I got a proper column and a pile-driving ass for ol’ Zuney… We could make beautiful music together. Unfortunately, Zuney can’t tuna fish.
Microsoft has had tablets out for years you retards!
It takes time to make spaghetti
Bye Bye Steve-o.. Hope you have a PLAN-C because when the board slaps you out of Redmond and brands you as probably the lamest CEO EVER, Espoo year-around may be you only option…BUT, the latitude may not be far enough north… THAT can be fixed…. maybe a nice lodge above the 60th parallel… would be toasty about NOW.
it usually takes Microsoft until version 3 of anything before it is of marketable quality. By that measure it might be 2015 before they have a serious tablet product.
Honestly, as a student, my Windows laptop saves me a lot of hassle with proprietary education plug-ins and other such crap. Not to mention Office is a little better.
However, with that said, you would have to pry my iPhone, iPod shuffle, and iPad out of my cold, dead hands. I know that saying anything good about Windows is a taboo on this site, but my Toshiba laptop (i3, 4GB, 500GB) was $479 and my iPad was $499. Working in tandem, they have more functionality and flexibility than a MacBook Pro, and I saved over $200. Enough for an iPhone 4.
your kidding right?
you must have never used a mac, I deal with windows every day. even with an ipad it’s not a mac.
and office!?!?! you mean the word processor that installs a kernel extension (yes a .kext “file”) and doesn’t remove it when you uninstall it? the one that constantly hangs, the one made by one of the worst software companies on the planet?
There’s no difference between a big capitalist company ( like GM or Microsoft) and a communist country (like Cuba or CCCP). They both have leaders that dictate what is needed from year to year and with INNOVATION use Nyet a lot! The true capitalist innovators like Dyson, HP( in old days) Xerox ( in old days) is that they R&D. Where they fail is when the CEO’s COO’s CFO’s can’t see where the innovations fit in the company. Classic example Xerox’s GUI and CCCP’s burst WiFi data transfer technology. The leaders in both saw limited uses. Apple and USA made billions out of the vision-less leaders of the two.
Microsoft’s vision is like CCCP — domination not innovation.
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And lets not forget that Apple should not exist if HP who were offered the “Apple idea” had excepted it!
“‘If 2011 is the year of the tablet wars… said Michael Gartenberg…”
(sound of buzzer) WRONG
2011 is the Year of iPad 2, as His Steveness said. The war hasn’t even been waged, and Apple won.
The only value Android offers is showing how hard it is to do what Apple does. Apple makes it look easy, and the giant piece of shit that is Android shows that it is not easy at all.
Keeping in mind, Windows is actually an OPEN platform compared to Apple. The ability to access your file system and download whatever you want, like a real computer. Mix that with sync’ing to the worlds dominant OS, and Microsoft has the potential to be disruptive with the WinPad. Will MS find a way to screw up the opportunity, and just make a not-as-good knockoff of the iPad? No one would be surprised if they fail to innovatively seize opportunities. As usual.
so now IT-depts can sit on their asses and wait for a win-tablet and of course suddenly tablets will be the next best thing since the innovation of sliced bread…