Bad marketing

When you make a major change to a product that requires the user to relearn it, you lose any advantage you had over your competitors.

If you have to relearn Office you might as well consider OpenOffice, etc. too. A major change in Windows? consider a Mac or Linux as well. Vista was a great example. Make big changes to usability, for better or worse, and have people look at alternatives. Many of those flocked to the Mac and they ain't coming back. If M$ had cleaned up XP a little that wouldn't have happened.

Few people want change. Most just want to get the job done. We live in a world of forced upgrades. Your ten year old XP machine died and you want a replacement? Its Win7 or nothing. Which means your old, perfectly fine software will probably need replacement. Which means retraining. All of which adds up to extra cost that pisses customers off. Many are wising up and shopping elsewhere.

Ironically, the Mac version of Office (2011) can have the ribbon turned off and all the old buttons restored.

Gartner to publish something relevent in 2039

"The main reason for Android’s market share growth will, Gartner VP Ken Dulaney told website AppleInsider, be because “unlike Apple, they [Google] license their OS to multiple OEMs”."

Oh, so like Palm did? Or Microsoft? What's their market share now?

"Windows Mobile's share will grow from 10.3 per cent to 12.8 per cent during the same quarters, Gartner added, which will see it remain as the fourth most popular phone-based OS."

The only operators selling WM are ones that couldn't get the iPhone and needed an alternative to Palm. The only people buying WM are wintards that think having Windows on their phone is more important than usability.

Well

It can't be any worse than the last re-imagining. That shite had less more talking and less action than the shopping channel.

Great

Now I'll have to remember to uncheck Outlook instead of Entourage when doing installs. How about a basic Word and Excel only version for people that want to get work done without useless crap wanted by MS fanboy sysadmins?

One of the greatest things about the Mac was that it didn't have MS Outhouse.

So use Firefox then

...and quit your whining.

Comparison?

"it underperforms when compared to ... solutions such as Norton AntiVirus"

So it does less than nothing? Thats an achievement, even for Microsoft.

Think crying clowns and primary colors

So the desktop will be a photo of typical Windows users?

Re: uniforms

Yeah, yeah, let's get back to skirts.

If Milla Jovovich can kick ass in a skirt why can't the ladies in blue? Poor training?

A great addition for WM users

My only question is if the Reg owns a WM phone, who owns the other one?

err, ok

So the only way to "outsell" the iPhone is to give your product away? Now there's a company I want to buy shares in.

Huh?

"you would help raise awareness about the cruelty involved in the pet trade and encourage your millions of fans to consider giving a home to an abandoned or unwanted animal from an animal shelter"

When I was shopping for a dog I tried all the shelters, pounds and rescue agencies within 100 miles. I could get a purebred from a breeder for less money than a unknown breed, unknown age, unknown health and unknown temperament mutt. They complain that they need more homes for these animals but then demand over $250 for them.

user experience

If I hear that term one more time I'm gonna barf.

I blame Gates for that load of verbal diarrhea. It's a freakin user interface, not an amusement ride. Nice to see the freetards copying M$.

@Stuart Van Onselen

While you've been keeping your head in the sand, others have been benefiting from the iPhone's many good points.

Cut and paste? A small annoyance. Tethering? I was worried about that until I realized that with all the iPhone's features and apps I had no need to keep a laptop around. MMS? If you are over 12 years old you're big enough to use email like the big boys. What we need is a way to delete the SMS app off the phone. One app open at a time? Never noticed.

A lot of phones are available on only one network. The only phone I've found that was truly open for apps was the Treo. The app store is a lot less hassle for finding apps and keeping them updated. Why would you pay twice for the same song? Most people would take a clip of the song to use as a ringtone. You *could* pay for a ringtone, just like any other phone, if you didn't want to make one yourself, but nobody is making you do it.

Maybe if you admittedly know nothing about the iPhone, you should refrain from criticizing it.

But really

How many people does this really affect? 5? 10? Maybe a dozen at the most. Can't be any more that that still using Norton crapware.

Spending

How about RIM spending some money on quality control instead of lame ads. Can't get the freaking things to last more than six months. Even our Treos are more reliable.

But really...

if you're running Vista we know what kind of personality type you are already.

Dell licensed to install OS X?

If not, it CAN'T BE A FREAKING MACBOOK AIR KILLER!

You're comparing apples to a pile of dog crap, or steaming pile of dog crap if it's running Vista.

Analyst predicts Rex Sox to win Super Bowl

Data Plan 'Light' est. $15/mo

Carriers Rogers

Looks like someone is smokin the bananas, again. Try $40 for 'Light' with a three year contract.

Perfume on a pig

If only RIM could get rid of the stupid trackball or even make a Curve that can last over six months, I'd be impressed.

We have 12 Blackberries. Only one has made it a year without repairs. We're averaging 2 repairs every 3 months for such things as trackball problems, charging issues, freezing and sync problems. Our previous Blackberries with thumbwheels had 3 failures in 3 years. How they can retain their market share while letting reliability slide is astonishing.

@Lionel Baden

"Guys its really is just the plain simple fact that

windows will run on 90% computers without any problems !

Unix runs on 99% of computers with problems on 95% of them

Mac runs on 3% of computer with problems on .9% of them"

Hey, the 90's called, they want their statistics back.

Fact. I have had to throw out more perfectly usable devices because of lack of driver updates for Windows than any other OS.

Fact. Unix is usable on far more systems than Windows.

Fact. None of this matters. Users don't like change. They've learned to live at the bottom of a hole and would rather put up pictures than dig themselves out.

zunePhone? Phune?

A phone tacked onto a player that nobody wants from a company nobody cares about. Except Steve's kids. Maybe a catchy name that instills confidence will make people buy it. How about VistaPhone? Err, maybe not.

Greed

Another example of a company so concerned that someone might be getting something for free that they are willing to put their entire customer base at risk.

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