Digital Living

What If "Cool Product" + "Trying To Be Cool" Product Combined ?

Recently I come to a conclusion that Microsoft perhaps can be best described as a "work productivity" company, it's product is "working stuff, input, document". Apple is a "life experiences company", it's product is "sound, picture, expressive medium".

Microsoft is trying to be cool through these set of product:

Apple is simply cool through these set of product:

Now imagine what would happen if an integrated-work-processing company can transform Apple's great life experiences product to become integrated part of work productivity activities, and in the process connecting Apple's life experiences product ..

• ... seamlessly with Microsoft's work productivity tools and activities (where necessary).

• ... seamlessly with Open Computing's work productivity tools and activities such as: OpenOffice.org [Office], Firefox [Browser], Thunderbird [Email] .

The synergic transformation would be wonderful.

iPhone 3G Is Released Today!

Apple 3G is released today. And with it comes a new way to take a look at the internet from a totally different view, experience and perspective.

Not only the device is a 3G device. It is also offering a new whole way to buy and experience application, on and off the net. Awesome.

Mr. Ballmer will need to start "photocopying" these concept again I assume, and -- while his troop is busy photocopying -- he will, as usual, start announcing his "pooh pooh" statement of what his lauzy Windows mobile system can do (better?) against Apple iphone/itouch system.

What a lauzy leader.

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.

Samsung Instinct & HTC Touch Diamon Is Coming!

If iPhone is not moving fast to dominate the market, these iPhone-look-alike might eventually creeping in.

 

The Last Week Of Bill Gates At Microsoft

This would probably be the last week of Bill Gates at Microsoft.
Here's a link to his whole fascinating "career", passion, strategy and story.

And this is one his best best best vision ever; of how computing could be, at those momentous, daring, beautiful time:

Microsoft in the 80s, 90s, early 2000s (when they massively shift to the internet) -- all under Bill Gates direct, intense, passionate leadership -- is really really passionately awesome.

And to those great works and passion which has changed society and humanity for the better, there's only one proper deep word to say:

THANK YOU.

The world is one step ahead to become a better place for everybody.

 

"You don't get it. You don't get it. We are going to put a computer on every desk and in every home". -Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer, back in the early days of Microsoft.

June 30: Bill Gates Officially Leaves Microsoft & Final Day Of Windows XP

Photo of Microsoft whole team - 1978
The Microsoft that we all (once) love

June 30, 2008 would be an important date that the world would remember. It would be the date when Bill Gates -- the founder and key driver of Microsoft would officially leave Microsoft. At the same time it is also planned to be the date when Windows XP would be stopped released from the marketplace.

This becomes significant because it might marks a new era. A day when the great entrepreneur and business builder start to focus/pursue on his other interest; also the day when the greatest hits of his long term works being replaced by a new "era" that still have to found its relevance and meaning.

After Gates, new leadership such as Mr. Ballmer, Ray Ozzie and the likes will start take over. So far, they haven't got any great hit product yet. Gates legacy is still what makes Microsoft great. DOS, Windows, Office , IE, XBOX -- these are all happening during the great Gates era.

OOXML, Office 2007 new interface, Vista, Zune -- these "floppy" failure (or "delayed success"?? -- as Mr.Ballmer would always love to "phrase" it?) are all happening during the "post Gates era".

We shall see how the days at Microsoft goes after Gates left. The long time veterans of Microsofts now will take over, later even the new comers will start to take over.

Whether Microsoft will stay relevance and exciting as a company after the post-Gates era remain to be seen. But for sure Bill Gates is one of the greatest entrepreneur of all time. The era of the 80s and 90s are still -- after all these years -- the best era, when we see Microsoft as our greatest company that we would fully support with our heart, the same way we get excited, dedicated and support open computing, horizontal scaling architecture, innovation and dedication to great software craftmanship that is happening in the world today.

Larry Dignan of ZDNet writes a great video wrap-up about the many hits (and few misses) of Gates works. It worth to take a look. Although -- to be in all fairness -- in my opinion, many of the failure I think is really happening more in the "new Microsoft leadership era" (which is not Bill Gates') rather than being Bill Gate's misses.

Here's the link to the video: http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-207992.html?tag=nl.e539

Firefox Sets A New Guiness-Book World Record As The Most Downloaded New Released Software!

The formal announcement is not yet made, but the official is now preparing to announce Firefox as the most downloaded new-release software on the internet.

We always believe in the power of the people. The magical act of people doing things together.

But the way they do it is really really awesome. How they come up with an idea that makes people around the world do something great and really excellent together is really really awesome.

And -- at the end -- the way they let everybody that is involved to keep a "token-of-rememberance" of such world-scale accomplishment is really really wonderful. Truly wonderful too. This is how they did it:

People around the world. We can create truly magical things together.

Truly awesome!!

ps: I'm waiting for my "banner" too :-) Such would be really really awesome to keep and remember. :-) :-) :-) Once, in a lifetime occassion. :-)

Steve Jobs & Bill Gates - The Mind, Vision, Dedication, Works & Passion Of A True Legend!

At D5 last year, two legends talk and share something that the world will listen and will always remember.

Through their separate work, practically these two passionate leaders invent, create, grow, evolve, and innovate the personal computer and the micro computer industry that we can not ever live without today.

Through their style, passion and work, they really produce great awesome accomplishment that enhance and improve the texture and living standard of worldwide society as a whole.

This year, one by one, time by time, each one of them might start to fade away from the world stage that they once crafted, created, nurtured and invented.

Yet, their believe, passion, ideas, work, vision, bet and accomplishment would always be something that world will always remember.

They are just deeply passionate about their work. And they really deeply truly know (and want to) make it really happen!

These are "works" of a legend. And these are "words" that they passionately express, share and say, during the D5 stage talks and discussion, last year:

Steve Jobs Looks So Skinny At WWDC 08 -- I Sincerely Hope He Gets 100% Perfectly Well Soon Once More

Steve Jobs looks very skinny during his WWDC08 performance. I sincerely hope he's really quickly back in perfect health and shape.

He's one hell of a great charismatic IT leader of the century. His ideas, vision, persistence, determination and achievements will always be legendary.

Take a look at some of his magnificent, confident, wonderful, legendary performances:

Truly awesome!

• "When you announce your new groundbreaking great idea, do so with confidence. Don't ask for people to like it -- assume that people will like it!" -- Anonymous

Steve Jobs is one of the great master, excellent executioner and superb practitioner of such magical "craft".

Jobs displays utmost confidence in how his fans will receive his products — stop worrying about the users, stop worrying about the developers, and start trusting his gut -- and that, not merely his presenting style, is what makes him so compelling.

Amazing! This Digital Screen Could Be Folded Like Paper!!

It is amazing to see the form factor, dimension and capability of latest digital screen that Sony produced and reveal to public just recently:

Oh My GOD, can you believe that this ultra-thin, plastis, foldable object is actually a screen???

It is so magical.

People say that this "foldable screen" is made of organic plasma, which is being encapsulated in foldable plastic film. By design it is extremely "paper thin"! People can fold it and carry it around very lightly.

Here's a video that shows that:

Purely magical!

Imagine what would happen if one day this "foldable screen" also become so "affordable" in price, and so "connectable" to the internet.

1. More and more people would eventually more prefer to carry this "foldable digital paper" around,   instead of carrying physical paper anymore, because this digital paper can stream and browse information direct from the net.
2. We no longer need to carry "stack of paper", because everything is now available from the internet's digital realm.
3. Our computer would become thinner and more flexible, and we can fold this "computer" to make it easy to carry around. Then we can "unfold it" quickly when we want to start work at anytime.
4. Eventually we might be able to "write" on top of this "digital paper" computer, and send the result to the net to be stored and saved. We no longer need to carry our today's "thicker, luggable notebook computer" around anymore, because eventually our "digital paper" has become the "computer".

Imagine how a great amazing future it would be!

Through this "digital paper", everything that we want to do suddenly probably could be done more intuitively, more ergonomically, more flexible, powerful and easy than we could done it before.

Everything back become "as easy as paper" once more. The difference is that we are all now doing it "all again" through the new "digital realm" that is made possible by this cute little powerful "magical paper".

Wonderful!

ps:

• Some more information about this "foldable technology" current research state, and its future development, can be found here.
• Also do take a look here to see the latest state about this technology's reincarnation and development.