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Perhaps 'now' is one of the most challenging era for Microsoft.

At the front-end (cool consumer device, mobile internet front-end, portable client computer, smart phone) they are facing Apple, at the back-end (search, cloud computing, internet ad business) they are facing Google.

How would Microsoft fit-in, into the groundbreaking computing trend of the future? Or are we start seeing the early sign of the 'possible birth' of the 'next dinosaur' ??

Some 'thinking slides' attached:

         

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Where_Does_Microsoft_Fits_In.zip (392 KB)

Quick draft narration to the slides:

• Slide 1: There's change coming, and everybody have to relook their option.
• Slide 2: Yet, dinosaurs (tend to) persist, they said the 'meteor' is not coming.
  
• Slide 3: Microsoft might seriously need to change the world once more, if not they are doomed.
  
• Slide 4: Apple is a great possible option.
  
• Slide 5: Google + Apple is even a bigger, greater possible option, ever!

How would Microsoft fit in ... ? software + services? surface computing? silverlights? tablets?

(And how 'soon') ??

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Long long time ago, big huge powerful dinosaurs live big around the earth and dominate the land to each other.
Meanwhile, plants are just small, spread everywhere, being shallow, 'puny' and tiny.
 
When sudden climate change come, the big heavy less adaptable dinosaur dies.
Nobody believe it can happen, but it dies.
The big huge powerful dominating dinosaur extinct.
 
Meanwhile, the adaptive plants lives on.

• Is Microsoft & its Closed-Computing concept (aka 'everything only run on Windows') the gigantic dinosaur of our software industry today?
• Is the internet & open connectivity the 'meteoric changes' that changes the total climate of the industry?
• Is OpenComputing (aka 'everything runs anywhere anytime on any device and any platform') is the flexible adaptive future-ready plants that spread and seed around?

We'll see.
 
As Darwin says: "Only the most adaptive survive".
 
-arv

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Microsoft vs. Yahoo ?? (Round 3)
 
Micro-hoo -- part 3?
 
What would happen when people type www.yahoo.com, and the first page that appear is: "do you want to install silverlight" ?? :-O what would happen when people activate their YM, and the first message that appear is: "Are you a PC" ??
 
I seriously wonder what's so cool about Microsoft buying Yahoo, except that Carl Ichan now has his "money making objective" happen, and Mr Ballmer has his "apetite" to "eat Yahoo" (and later to have a chance to beat Google) fulfilled?
 
History shows that under Mr. Ball** leadership, the bigger Microsoft become, the slower it innovate in ways that changes society for the better.
 
Only when Microsoft had a leader that enable the company to innovate greatly once more, such acquisition matters. If not, perhaps it'd just be "monsterous distruction" to the great innovation potential of the world software industry. A step back to the world's global innovation potential, rather than a meaningful giant leap forward.
 
-arv

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The Blackberry Storm is coming. This one seems much much better and greater than the Blacberry Bold the precedes it.
 
Now the equation is complete:
 
1. BB has Storm.
2. Apple has iPhone.
3. Google has T1.
 
When traditional Microsoft manufacturers (HTC, Samsung) start migrating from the boring complex complicated Windows Mobile to the simpler, friendlier Google Android OS, then we'll see something truly great and exciting is happening.
 
I seriously wonder, WHY M**sft under Mr. Ball** leadership seriously can not change those cluncky complicated antiquated interfaces that is more suitable for modern human being.
 
What's really happening at Redmond??
 
Have they loose their competitive edge and ability to simplify things and make things workable??
 
M**sft under Mr. Ball** seems getting more and more slow, less innovative and retarded as ever. Perhaps we need Bill Gates back then M**sft would become as exciting as it was, once more.
 
I seriously wonder, and 'puzzled' :'(

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