This always happens when the original leader steps down or retires.  Have you watched the Disney channel lately.  How far that company has fell from Walt's vision is amazing.  As of now their a big bloated repository of swallowed up companies.  I have little hope for Star Wars but that's another topic...  Microsoft is doomed to failure if they don't hurry up and get Ballmer out of there...

Exactly, a few institutional shareholders tried ousting Ballmer in 2010, but some board members still,protect the guy. He is not bad guy Ballmer just in the wrong company to be CEO at this point. 

 

CEO Steve Ballmer is the wrong guy for the job. Kempin believes that Microsoft should be led by a technologist, not a businessman.

Saw an article today claiming that people are buying tablets not because they want tablets but because they don't want win8.

 

scott s.

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http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-brief/70889-windows-8-blamed-for-poor-pc-sales

 

Microsoft killed the person computer...okok it dosn't quite fit into the Radio star song...but.

asked the 19 year old If she was able to have a device the size of your cell phone that connected to your eyewear that at a press of a button would turn any eyewear you’re wearing  into a 3D monitor and the device was able to perform as fast or faster than you laptop and ran programs would she want that?

 

well she said, of course sounds great...are you building a protype by chance?

 

:mad:

Microsoft is an awful big company that still has an awful lot of money in the bank. As a company, I don't think they're going anywhere soon even if Windows 8 tanked worse than Smith & Wesson mountain bikes.  :ph34r: 

 

They can, however lose their OS relevance fairly quickly, especially with equally big-pocketed and hungrier companies like Google and Apple eating their lunch in the exploding smartphone and tablet markets. I actually think that spreading the OS across all of their devices was a good move for them for a number of reasons, but the actual implementation seems to have created a "Jack of all trades, master of none" situation for the OS and for users.

 

Win 8 is kinda-sorta ok on the phone, so-so on a laptop, and much to easy to disregard on the desktop. My job actually has big glaring warning screens up everywhere telling telecommuting employees not to even attempt to use it.

 

In a market where buzz and word of mouth and image is king, Windows 8 doesn't seem to be cutting it, and its hard to see how they're going to rescue the situation.

I do think for the PC to survive its architecture needs to change. It all dates from to 80's and was hurriedly put together to steal the market!

For example the OS should not be on the HD it should be on a chip that can be inserted on the MB. (that's not new technology either) but arguable more secure than the present setup.

 

 

For example the OS should not be on the HD it should be on a chip that can be inserted on the MB. (that's not new technology either) but arguable more secure than the present setup.

 

Chip would need to be updated (bug fixes) ... if a chip can be updated it's not secure.  In order for your process to work and be secure, new chips would need to be issued or programmers and testing would need to hit 99% bug free (implication being many many many years between updates).

 

Keep in mind that Desktop computers have 1500 watts (standard US 110V outlet) of power available to them ... mobile devices max consumption is <1 watt.  In other words, unless something drastic changes in the technology of batteries, mobile devices are never ever ever going to be as capable as desktop devices ... and that is why Mobile devices will level out in growth.