Digital Living

Would You Like To Try An "iBeer" Sir ? ... :-D

Human creativity sometimes took "a creative juncture" that you could never predict.

This surprising application for iPhone for example. It simulates the process of drinking beer. Embracing the "tilt sensor" that iPhone had, this application let your friends experience the process of seeing you "drinking beer" ... while actually you don't. :-D

I am not exactly sure what this application is really useful for [in real life] :-) but as a "cute", fun idea, it's quite OK lah. We respect the spark of creativity that surround it. :-)

Does anyone have an idea of creating and "selling" an "iCola" ?? I probably buy one. :-) *hahahaha*

Microsoft Become "IDIOT" Company When Mr. Ballmer Takes Over!

Microsoft was a great company when a "strategic, entrepreneurial programmer" (aka Bill Gates) was incharge. Microsoft becomes an "idiot" company when a "businessman" (aka Steve Ballmer) takes over.

Take a look what Mr. Ballmer and Carl Icahn try to do "lately": they try to get rid of Jerry Yang off the Yahoo! board!!

Their devilistic PLOT basically is as follow:

1. Icahn takes the "role and responsibility" of getting rid of Jerry Yang from Yahoo board.
2. The devilistic Mr. Ballmer promise that the Microsoft money will be ready to be delivered to the "new entity" when removal of Yang from the board of Yahoo has been successful.

Microsoft might eventually win in this "brave" attempt, or they might also loose it. But whether they win or loose the battle, one thing is clear for now: many people and many company loose respect of what they try to do. You win the battle but lost the "war". Only "idiotic" people do this! (to try to win the "battle" but lost the "war").

Looking at the "cruel" nature of this deal, perhaps -- beside being "idiotic" and "less hearted" -- Mr. Ballmer really deserve the title "D.E.O" (Devil Executive Officer) of the century!

ps: Read here for a complete ZDNet converage.

Microsoft After Gates

8 days after Bill Gates leaving Microsoft, Microsoft -- the company that he founded -- are still busy promoting "fighting viruses" and "get rid of spam".

These Ballmerian Microsoft really got it mixed up. While in the past customer doesn't have any choices (except to use Microsoft OS and software), in today's era -- where people get exposure to MacOS, Linuxes and stuff -- why people need to "fight virus" if "avoiding virus" could be the best remedy?

They really still "get mixed" up in the past. If someone can consistently effectively trace this out, Microsoft is out.

Ballmer: You Can Buy Vista And Downgrade To XP For Free! (What???)

As we know Mr. Ballmer looks like a disaster for today's Microsoft. His arrogant style, his behavior of "pooh pooh"-ing competitor's better product, his monkey dance; these all really drive us crazy.

But recently I just found an old video that depicts him during his youthful years. After seeing that video, with all honesty I have to admit that I feel during those times he doesn't seem that bad (yet) after all.

Yet again, if we fast forward the time back to today, when we start hearing again his "greatest pitch" (or the most "ridiculous" pitch) for Vista these days; where he contextually (and essentially) express: "You can buy Vista and downgrade to XP for free!", ... my heart strongly responded with surprising confusion, and a resounding: "WHAT????".

"BUY VISTA AND DOWNGRADE TO XP FOR FREE???"

Am I not hearing something really really wrong here???

The essence of that statement is perhaps the "strangest" and the "silliest" (and most ridiculous) anomalic, arrogant, (and actually stupid) sales pitch I have ever heard!

Why would (or why should) a customer buy Vista, and pay Vista's higher price tag, if what they want to do is just to downgrade it to XP? Why not just Microsoft continue sell those XP at lower price ?? ... or even ... just give it for free??

Mr. Ballmer, many times really seems unbelievable. But the context of this statement is really awfully "crazy".

We shall see whether by the end of this June (aka June 30), Windows XP will really be terminated by Microsoft, or whether it would be taking a "new live form" as "free downgraded version" of Vista!

What a ridiculously unfunny "joke" Mr. Ballmer really made. :-)

Vista Yoga & Vista Blues... !!!

If with XP we can have a minor "broken windows", with Vista we can have: a "broken heart". Take a look at the "parodic" video below. Interestingly, while the parody is funny, the statement and expressions that comes with it is NOT all that wrong. It reflects what Vista situation really is today.

Oh Vista, Vista. How sad ....

Perhaps it's about time Mr. Ballmer should step down (and Bill Gates shall be back).

Ask Not What Vista Can Do For Your Computer ... Ask What YOUR COMPUTER Can Do For Vista!!! -- The Microsoft Vista Debacle :-(

Microsoft tried so hard to brand "Vista" as the "most successful operating system ever". A couple of months ago, Mr. Ballmer with their greatest joy and hurah-hurah style claimed that Microsoft has just the best sales performance in its years of history in business; and such happened because of Vista.

Months later -- which bring us into today -- everybody understand one thing: that a truly great product will really become successful, and the rotten-ones, no matter how much "odor" you try to put into it, will still "stinks" at the end.

That's what happen with Vista today. Marketing wise Microsoft keep pushing Vista ahead while preparing it's future release (Windows 7), and at the same time "silently" allow customer (or "give them option") to downgrade their Vista to XP.

As long as the new sales figure still registered under "Vista", it doesn't really matter that actually the customer is downgrading it back to XP!

What a shame!

People doubt Vista for its awful memory hungry requirement. People doubt Vista for its lack of truly creative innovation. People doubt Vista for its incompatibility with current trends.

Vista becomes a "big ugly monsterous alien" in a new changing world. For example: when people and the industry start leaning towards internet-focused sub-note PC that brings in a new smaller size, smaller screen, smaller memory and lower CPU PC model to the market, Vista requires a totally memory hog operating environment that won't fit to any of these! When people and the industry wants simple, easy to use, intuitive, fresh, fascinating looking operating environment, Vista comes up with a "quite OK interface" that resembles alot of Mac OS X copycats -- an imitation that is -- of course -- would never be as quite good as the original one.

We're not sure what really happening at Redmond today. But increasingly we saw how in many innovative fronts, the once great software product company is really now totally lag behind.

Does Vista PHOTOCOPY The Mac Feature ??

We will see what the future will be. Whether the Vista debacle will soon be over. Or whether the fateful transitioning story of Vista actually marks an END of a great (Windows) era, or -- instead -- it is marking a great decisive beginning of the next one.

In the "new" computer world structure that is recently formed, whereby customer and people around the world has possible alternatives of switching their systems and operating environment to the "high end beautiful" Mac OS X, or to adopt the "entry level acceptable" Linux desktop, Microsoft comes up with a "Mac-copy-cat" product and "Memory hog Linux" that is called Vista?

What a real shame that Microsoft today's  management seem truly ineffective in driving and running the company forward.

Even worse:

How The Microsoft PR Still Try (So Hard) To Defend Vista

Microsoft, please wake up, face reality as it is and do your great system overhaul & core architectural innovation once more. Unless:  this once great company seem to really have a great risk of eventually becoming forgotten, irrelevant, and deem ""doomed"" from the core of its industrial epicenter.

Again and again, may be it is really about time for Mr. Ballmer to step down. (And put Bill Gates back in the line). It has been 8 years since Mr. Ballmer take over, and during this "turmolous" era, Microsoft long term future has never been looked in such a bad mishave shape.

Microsoft Buy Yahoo (Attempt 3): The Most "DEVILISTIC" Business Letter Ever Created -- Of The Century!??

Mr. Ballmer on April 5, 2008 send a letter to Yahoo board, mentioning Microsoft attempt to buy Yahoo -- through the "next means necessary". Please click here to read more.

While business letter is a usual thing to create. The MEAN-ness of the letter and the feel of arrogance of how things being communicated -- I feel -- really deserve this to be the UGLIEST BUSINESS LETTER ever created, in the whole century!

Oh, Mr. Ballmer, I think you're the worst thing for Microsoft today. I don't think the internet would be better, if Yahoo is acquired by Microsoft under the leadership of Mr. Ballmer. He's just no Bill Gates at all.

Somewhere in Microsoft great history, there was a story that fascinate us of how Microsoft buy the core of "DOS" from Tim Paterson at that time, and then build a really huge business with it. That was a great business story that we tell each other from generation to generation.

But the whole aura of that transaction was an aura of a tiny, smart, adaptive, fast moving, responsive business doing business with others in the sense of respectable attitude and in the spirit of respecting each other.

This transaction that Microsoft try to do, seem Ballmerian by nature: it's arrogant, it's "nostalgic" with  something that Microsoft has done successfully in the past (when it was tiny and small), but all and all it lost one of the most importance essence: these transactions (under the leadership of Mr. Ballmer) -- I don't know why -- always feel competitive & EVIL-istic, ... while Microsoft's competitiveness and attempt in the past (when they were tiny -- under the leadership of Bill Gates) is always feel to be something that innovative, pure, smart, competitive yes, but at the same time build the market and/or the future for the better.

33 years after it is being founded, under the leadership of Mr. Ballmer today, Microsoft seem really really changing.

What a pity. (And a shame). I wish one day Bill Gates is back.

This Phone Is NOT An iPhone !!

If you think that this phone below is an iPhone from Apple, pls. take a closer look again! It's NOT. :-)

It's a phone made in China. And rumors said that underneath the Apple-look-a-like interface, the operating system is Windows Mobile 6. Oh, my!

Click here for more info.

Don't Do This If You Have A Bluetooth Headset! :-)

One book that I read once highlight an interesting phenomena that spreads around the globe, of how "strange" it increasingly become to see how the more people are digitally connected, the less they are connected to people that is precisely reside around them!

This is probably one caricatural example:

An awesome wonderful reminder of how to live "digitally perfect", in the "new" digital world that sometimes is "NOT perfect" at all. :-)

Do take a look at this "blue-tooth enabled", "digitally sophisticated" young-person's action & behavior too:

In this new digitally connected world, we are all now increasingly digital, connected and tend to always want to stay in-touch with anybody anywhere at anytime. In doing so, we typically tend to create our own "private virtual space" and time slot. We work where we are, conference where we are, do "productive work things" in places where we happen to be.

But in doing so , perhaps we shall at anytime ensure that we don't "accidentally disturb" other people's "private space and time slot", ... which is sometimes not digital at all!

Microsoft Brand Is In Sharp Decline!

It was published today in Yahoo News that Microsoft Brand is in sharp decline. It was told that according to  a recent study by market research firm CoreBrand, Microsoft's brand power has been in sharp decline over the past four years, an indication the company is losing credibility and mindshare with U.S. business users.

But the biggest story here is not about the Microsoft's brand sharp decline itself, but it's about the fact that such information is being published in YAHOO news site -- business unit of YAHOO Inc, the exact same YAHOO company that Microsoft eagerly wants to buy!

One sided love is never easy. :-)

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