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| Time: 10:48 EST/15:48 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer yesterday openly acknowledged Apple's "thriving" success in the lucrative consumer market. Historically, Ballmer has not often taken Apple seriously as a competitor. Well, apart from dismissing the iPhone as "niche" and iPod owners being thieves of course. |
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| #1 By 8556 (12.206.195.4) at Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:03:52 AM |
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FYI: As of 7-24-08 11 AM the link was giving a 404 error message. The error seems to be on the Register's site, not ActiveWin since they have a link on the 404 page to the story that also did not work at 11:05 AM. This post was edited by bobsireno on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 11:05. |
| #2 By 3 (86.1.38.147) at Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:22:18 AM |
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| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:33:40 PM |
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That's his job, to slam the competition and pump up his own company. If Apple came out with a machine that turned poop into gold, Ballmer would complain it only came in 3 colours.
I almost spit out my drink when I read, "Because [Apple is] good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience". Commitment to choice?? Hobson's Choice, maybe. I had to double-check that I was still reading a Ballmer quote. Perhaps he meant all the Vista SKUs when he was talking about choice. Choose any flavour of Vista you want. |
| #4 By 82766 (202.154.80.82) at Thursday, July 24, 2008 05:43:40 PM |
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Latch,
Its the responsibility of any CxOetc to "slam the competition and pump up his own company"... Apple's 'getamac' TV adverts show that Apple does no difference. I think you're nit picking and working on semantics... the world is not black and white ok? If you want to nit pick... then it's the same "choice" that Apple offers within its own product range. They only offer OSX for their own-made hardware (Mac and iPhone) ... while from Microsoft offers (in the sense of OS only); WinXP (in multiple flavours - YES you can easily still buy XP) Vista (in multiple flavours - with some extra versions due to various court cases in EU and Intel pulling Microsoft's strings) Media Center's Server 2003 (in multiple flavours) Server 2008 (in multiple flavours) Windows Home Server Windows CE Windows Mobile Now... whats your problem again? This post was edited by MyBlueRex on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 17:46. |
| #5 By 15406 (99.224.112.94) at Thursday, July 24, 2008 09:05:54 PM |
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#4: Apple's 'getamac' TV adverts show that Apple does no difference.
I don't disagree. I wasn't slamming Ballmer when I said he disparages competitors and pumps up MS because inspiring the troops is what a good CEO does. It's part of the job and not a negative thing at all. After I posted #3, I dawned on me (slowly, slowly) that Ballmer meant 'choice' in the context of hardware support from vendors. I'm just not used to seeing 'Microsoft' and 'choice' in the same sentence. |
| #6 By 2960 (70.177.180.170) at Friday, July 25, 2008 09:30:59 AM |
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Microsoft's biggest hurdle will be learning how to treat customers like CUSTOMERS, and not tied-to-the-tree corporate clients.
I'm not sure the culture at Microsoft can overcome this. TL |
