Comments on: Why Microsoft Will Slaughter Its Windows Mobile and PC Partners, and What it Means for Apple and Google

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By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:04:40 +0000

Nokia and Microsoft? It’s a huge mistake on the part of Nokia in my opinion. Give it two years, and see how much market share Nokia has gained – I expect none, except what they can steal from the current Winmobile licensees.

By: ChuckO

ChuckO — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:53:02 +0000

How about Nokia and Microsoft? What’s up with that? Now that Nokia is building a MS Netbook and partnering to bring Office to Nokia smartphones could the next step be for those two to partner up on delivering the Zune phone? Therefore making up for Microsofts problems delivering hardware and Nokia’s inability to make a dent in the U.S.? What do you think of that?

By: ChuckO

ChuckO — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:20:33 +0000

MS buys Dell and starts marketing their own computer. The new company is called “DellsoSoft”.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:31:56 +0000

Dell states that 1/3 of their Netbooks ship with Ubuntu, and that returns are no higher than for Windows Netbooks. Qualcom showed an ARM netbook at Computex, which was running 780P video using Android as an OS. HP is known to have in house operating system projects, which while they are mostly aimed at servers, could be converted to desktop use. Several of the Taiwanese manufacturers have used Linpus and Xandros, both of which are terrible operating systems (but safer and more stable than Windows).

Let’s face it. Anyone could come up with their own operating system in almost no time. For an example check out Moon OS, which started out as a one man project. It’s rather nice, and even runs on my antique Thinkpad P3-600.

I don’t think that the hardware OEMs are all that worried. Options exist, and given a year’s notice, they will be fine. And by announcing the opening of their own stores, Microsoft has given them that warning.

Of course that covers the low end of the market. The high end will remain Apple’s for at least the next 5 years.

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:13:37 +0000

Microsoft is more like QE II than a speedboat; it is slow to change direction. Even if their habits and policies are self-destructive, they are simply unable to steer around the looming iceberg.

IBM is a strong company today, but had to reinvent itself in the 90’s when it was looking over the precipice and many pundits were suggesting they exit the computer business. Apple looked over this same precipice as well, which was the impetus for Jobs’ return and the transition to OSX.

Microsoft needs to make some tough decisions and big changes, but it will take a near-death experience to materialize it. Until then, they have no choice to but follow their traditional methods.

By: HCE

HCE — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:56:34 +0000

@John E

Agree with what you say for the most part except that I don’t think we are even close to the backstretch yet – to use your horse-racing analogy, we’re just out of the starting gate and haven’t quite made it to the first turn.

– HCE