1. 02 April 2006

    962 days ago

    Prisoner of Redmond

    During one of those last long nights working to deliver DOS 2.0 in early 1983, I am told that Paul Allen heard Gates and Ballmer discussing his health and talking about how to get his Microsoft shares back if Allen were to die.

    I’d sure feel good about buying my computer software from those guys. The combination of Allen having distanced his financial well being from his MS stock and an Iowa anti trust suit being heard this year lead Cringely to believe:

    Based purely on character (or lack of it), I confidently predict that Microsoft is going down. It should be interesting.

    via Kjell Olsen962 days ago

  2. 01 March 2006

    994 days ago

    YouTube - microsoft ipod packaging parody

    I figured that this was parody, in which case it’s worth a look, but I wasn’t going to go and elevate it to post on my blog status. But it’s an actual internal MS project, which makes it completely hilarious. Plebs.

    via Kjell Olsen994 days ago

  3. 05 October 2005

    1141 days ago

    Microsoft Vista will ignore your monitor

    A scheme to punish windows pirates also punishes everyone who doesn’t have a brand new monitor, not letting them use windows vista.

    via Kjell Olsen1141 days ago

  4. 09 June 2005

    1259 days ago

    PBS | I, Cringely . June 9, 2005 - Going for Broke

    Could Apple befriending intel be more then we all think?

    Enter Apple. This isn’t a story about Intel gaining another three percent market share at the expense of IBM, it is about Intel taking back control of the desktop from Microsoft.

    So Intel buys Apple and works with their OEMs to get products out in the market. The OEMs would love to be able to offer a higher margin product with better reliability than Microsoft. Intel/Apple enters the market just as Microsoft announces yet another delay in their next generation OS. By the way, the new Apple OS for the Intel Architecture has a compatibility mode with Windows (I’m just guessing on this one).

    This just keeps getting more exciting.

    via Kjell Olsen1259 days ago

  5. 13 May 2005

    1286 days ago

    PBS | I, Cringely . May 12, 2005 - Inflection Point

    At some point, Google might even offer its own hardware device, optimized for the Accelerator. At that point, you’ll buy your PC from Google, use Google as your ISP, surf an Internet that is really the Google cache, be fed ads and sold content from Google servers. Its a GoogleWorld that requires no AOL, no Microsoft, no Intel, no HP or Dell—only Google, cable companies, telephone companies, users, and of course advertisers and web page producers.

    Nice essay on how the digital market is looking to change, and I like hearing that Microsoft is dropping the ball these days.

    So Apple takes over video and movies while Yahoo threatens with a low-priced music subscription service and Google threatens to take control of, well, everything.
    And Microsoft? Microsoft kicks the dog.

    via Kjell Olsen1286 days ago

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