Comments on: Can Microsoft Continue to Thrive? http://getthenext.com/archives/189 Real Tech _ Real People Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thisisjohnny http://getthenext.com/archives/189/comment-page-1#comment-138 thisisjohnny Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:26:02 +0000 http://getthenext.com/?p=189#comment-138 i agree that microsoft has taken a dive lately. it's because of their products, but mostly because of their image i think. windows has been pretty bland since 95. every iteration since has pretty much been a new skin on the same underlying platform. there have been some amazing things independent linux developers have done with the user interface for the various distros, and everyone knows apple is the king of the UI world with not just OS X but all their devices. stability has improved quite a bit, but in the last week alone in the office i saw 2 co-workers get blue screens on their laptops. add in the original zune which failed incredibly (especially with that brown option) and that's really damaged their reputation. they're not hip. they're not cutting edge. they're not pushing limits. however, i think they're doing well with the xbox 360 (i hate my ps3 except for the blu-ray player in it), the first looks i've seen of the zune HD look pretty cool actually, and using the RC of windows 7 on a virtual machine - i have to say it's actually not bad. but is it a little too late? maybe. the hardest thing to do is fix a damaged reputation — and microsoft is definitely damaged goods. i agree that microsoft has taken a dive lately. it’s because of their products, but mostly because of their image i think.

windows has been pretty bland since 95. every iteration since has pretty much been a new skin on the same underlying platform. there have been some amazing things independent linux developers have done with the user interface for the various distros, and everyone knows apple is the king of the UI world with not just OS X but all their devices. stability has improved quite a bit, but in the last week alone in the office i saw 2 co-workers get blue screens on their laptops.

add in the original zune which failed incredibly (especially with that brown option) and that’s really damaged their reputation. they’re not hip. they’re not cutting edge. they’re not pushing limits.

however, i think they’re doing well with the xbox 360 (i hate my ps3 except for the blu-ray player in it), the first looks i’ve seen of the zune HD look pretty cool actually, and using the RC of windows 7 on a virtual machine – i have to say it’s actually not bad. but is it a little too late? maybe. the hardest thing to do is fix a damaged reputation — and microsoft is definitely damaged goods.

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