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Fuzzy Logic Win 7’s 3-app limit - finally appendectomised!
Fuzzy Logic Win 7’s 3-app limit - finally appendectomised! | Win 7’s 3-app limit - finally appendectomised! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 30 May 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Now, I’m not against companies being able to offer the products and services they want to in the configuration of their choosing, but when it comes to Windows 7 Started Edition, Microsoft’s decision to offer it just seems cheap and unnecessary. Featured Whitepaper
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It’s helping to slow Linux down too, but instead of coming from a mentality of abundance, it’s coming from a mentality of restriction merely for the sake of maximum profit. It’s a self imposed limit that works against, rather than for, Microsoft. Microsoft’s public perception, success and future profit would vastly improve if it actually did things in the unashamed interests of its customers as much as it did for high levels of profit, instead of other perceptions, one of which is that it is only about profit, literally at the expense of its users. After all, when it comes to personal computer operating systems, and despite a lot of activity on the Linux and OS X fronts over the past few years, Microsoft is still the world’s No.1 “desktop” OS company. While most of its customers are still using Windows XP (around 66% in April 2009 according to Wikipedia), and most of the rest using Vista (around 22%), Microsoft’s dominance of the OS and office software suite scenes has transformed it into a many-multibillion dollar success story, now with fingers in many different pies. This has given it the financial and business muscle power to get its own way with computer manufacturers and the power to overcome competitors such as Netscape with ruthless efficiency – a quality it would have been better off applying in the creation of Windows Vista, instead of being forced to catch up with Windows 7 nearly three years later. With the threat of a constantly improving range of free Linux distros gaining more success in the marketplace, and companies like Dell and others expanding the number of countries in which they sell Linux pre-loaded on PCs to consumers, the Linux threat has grown ever larger for Microsoft. Now, in mid-2009, Microsoft’s dominance is being threatened by Google, Apple, Linux and others like never before, on ever more fronts, on the desktop or in the cloud, the OS, software, hardware, online services, gaming and elsewhere – and now by the unexpected success of - at last - a cheap netbook platform. Continued on page 3, please read on! |
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