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This October would really become a special month for advanced-yet-user-friendly operating systems around the world. Mac OS X Leopard is coming on October 26, and Ubuntu 7 is released tomorrow (Oct 18).
If we take a "peek" at features that these new advanced OSes offer, seems Vista is going to be the most boring one of them all. At its latest release (and fixes) Vista felt clunkiest, the most "unfinished", the least compatible (to older machines). It feels like a random collection of "artificial beautification cosmetics" around a "sad face" ... one disjointed bunch of a "supposed-to-be-really-advanced operating-system" that had to play "catch-up" really fast.
Mr. Ballmer must be really crazy if he still think his Vista stuff (as of today) is the best. The OS hogs my colleague's computer memory like crazy. It's SLLOOOOOW on typical machine we had today. And its beautification cosmetics is just a "so-so" added slapstick lipstick effect added in a rush minute. If Vista is a comedian, it tries to be funny with all the baloon and flashy custome it bring up on stage, ... but -- at its core essence -- its joke itself is dry, uneducated ... and not experiencedly funny at all! As a "joker", it flops at the heart of its most crucial juncture. Rotten "apple" is not such a bad "award" to be thrown at.
Microsoft confusing Vista variants (Half Leopard, Half Vista ...Oh My!)
As the battle of the "great OSes" reveal this October (and into the 2008), we'll see how Vista would respond to the 300 new cool feature of Leopard, and to the free friendly feature of Ubuntu 7. The new OSes offer ease of use, advanced features (such as cover flow navigation on Mac OS X and really cool Berryl 3D navigation system on Ubuntu 7). Vista simply doesn't have that (as of now).
On a more "serious" personal side, I really wonder how Microsoft and Vista -- under the leadership of Mr Ballmer -- would eventually respond as the world move forward. If Mr Ballmer still responded by "poooh pooh ing" the better product (instead of rapidly competing and innovating around it) .. or simply responding by suing everybody ... then he must be really crazy. Microsoft empire -- as far as we remember -- was not built really fast in the past based on those "rotten" and "crazy" values. (At least not until Mr Ballmer takes the CEO role from Bill Gates a few years ago).
With 85% accuracy, it might be true across history that Microsoft that we knew was never really a "new stuff breakthrough maker or 'new stuff innovator'" since it's birth. (Although -- no doubt -- it indeed innovate by providing us the best DOS, Windows and Office system at one point in time, though). Microsoft traditionally always do best in refining stuff that already existed. But still it was the darling of the industry that we (once) love and admire (in the past) because of its ability to resonate well with the rest of us and because of its ability to "pinpoint the most crucial solution to the problem" that resonates really well the heartbeat of the rest of the industry.
Microsoft once has the "great instinct" to know "what matter the most for the people and the rest of us". Although its superbly competitive and kills its competition at the end, overall we -- coders around the world at those time -- still like Microsoft and fully support its cause because we can feel its humble, hardworking, contributing, well-attitude character inside.
Under Mr. Ballmer today, seems the word "evil" really fits in into the heart and soul of Microsoft. I guess too much 'monkey dance' is bad for one's health (as in the case of Mr Ballmer). When he speak "developers, developers, developers" with such kind of arrogance, my heart beats strong: "Gosh, bring back the humble Microsoft it once was". How sad to see how the character of once a great darling company has changed under such vicious "monster" that seems has forgotten the very root of Microsoft existence, and what it was all about.
How sad for Microsoft to had such unfortunate leader at this juncture. A non-Microsoft-attitude leader at the midst of great change of the industry into the future :-(
The world probably need Bill Gates back into the realm ... and bring the "true" value system of "competitiveness, humbleness, hardworking, never under estimate competition, contribute a real thing fast" back.
SIOOMA Mr Ballmer .... SIOOMA. Get back to Microsoft real simple-honest-humble-hardworking- competitive-yet-contributing value system. Or be remembered as the biggest strange clunky boldy "bastard" in business history.
Mr Steve Ballmer - the man who is destroying the worlds largest business empire as fast as Bill Gates built it?
How un-fun! And how totally un-cool "title" to be.
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