Comments on: No Zune phone as MSFT goes aggro v iPhone

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:48:40 +0000

Wasn’t their phone supposed to be called the Zone?

By: Tom B

Tom B — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:24:00 +0000

Pundits: Apple MUST get Flash on the iPhone.

User: We HATE CPU-sucking Flash. It’ll kill battery life. We wish Flash (and Silverlight) would disappear from the web! All hail HTML5, and STANDARDS!

MSFT: You’ll eat our fracking Silverlight and like it whether it drains your battery or not! We are MSFT, the all powerful. BTW: that iPhone thingy is just a fad!

By: Mr. Reeee

Mr. Reeee — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:32:43 +0000

Microsoft lives in it’s own little bubble where it believes that ANYthing they support is a “standard”. If the products they released were any good, that would be one thing, but when nearly everything is third rate at best, eventually people figure it out and look for alternatives.

The rest of the world knows better than to back supposed “standards” from Redmond. They screw their “partners” every chance they get. How many online music “standards” squirting from MS have come, failed and been abandoned by Microsoft, with their “partners” left holding the bag, losing millions of dollars, pissing off and alienating their customers?

When you have a monopoly like Microsoft, why care about customers or partners?

Why do you think HD DVD failed? Aside from being clearly inferior to Blu-ray, the media and entertainment industries… actually EVERY industry that had ever been reamed repeatedly by Microsoft… simply said NO. Even when MS tried paying off Hollywood studios to support HD DVD, they failed.

No one wants to see Microsoft ever monopolize any technology again.

Earth to Redmond, give it up.

By: Michael Linehan

Michael Linehan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:53:22 +0000

“…effectively created areas of the internet which could be accessed by Windows only.”

The reason it worked back then was a combination of massive dominance and the blinkers on most people’s eyes. The dominance has taken huge hits, and for huge numbers of people, the blinkers are gone. Individuals and businesses are not going to submit to a similar attempt to control the Internet, this time.

Microsoft reeeally need to get over this pathological need to dominate everything in sight. It’s not going to happen, Steve. Maybe you could even shift to “producing actual quality products” as your primary goal.

By: Jocca

Jocca — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:52:09 +0000

Me too. There are alternatives out there to replace Microsoft Office Suite (which is suffering from serious bloat anyway) which are free to all platforms. NeoOffice version 3.0 is fast and very competent. I can open most excel and word files with it, even power point files. For Power Poinf files I prefer to use Keynote.

By: jjj

jjj — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:06:20 +0000

Since when is Silverlight a “standard?” That is, what international body has acknowledged Silverlight as a standard?

By: prak

prak — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:37:35 +0000

Me too!

By: MT

MT — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:21:07 +0000

Sigh. They just don’t learn, do they? I suspect that only a serious financial beatdown will ever convince Redmond to do the right thing. I’m doing my part to make that happen, though!