Comments on: On Win8 launch day a look back at Steve Ballmer, circa 2001 http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001 on technology Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:21:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Adil http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56583 Adil Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:04:55 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56583 If this ever becomes a reailty I wouldn't want to be a part of it. People these days are already way too dependent on technology. Everyone will be overweight from lack of what we think to be everyday activities. There will also be less jobs out there, but more people. I don't see a way for that to work.

]]> If this ever becomes a reailty I wouldn’t want to be a part of it. People these days are already way too dependent on technology. Everyone will be overweight from lack of what we think to be everyday activities. There will also be less jobs out there, but more people. I don’t see a way for that to work.

]]> By: Aditya http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56582 Aditya Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:25:39 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56582 okay . cool technology, but if you look at these pelopes lives, they are SO simple, that, its almost a waste of life . why would u wanna go through life with everything easy, it would be boring. its like a game filled with cheats. its fun for the first half hour, then it just gets boring and it sucks. by the time this comes to reality, there wont be people working at those jobs, it will be run by a computer. lol.

]]> okay . cool technology, but if you look at these pelopes lives, they are SO simple, that, its almost a waste of life . why would u wanna go through life with everything easy, it would be boring. its like a game filled with cheats. its fun for the first half hour, then it just gets boring and it sucks. by the time this comes to reality, there wont be people working at those jobs, it will be run by a computer. lol.

]]> By: Ronc http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56581 Ronc Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:38:23 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56581 Paul Thurrott has just come out with some concluding remarks about Windows 8. Although he acknowledges that not everyone will choose to upgrade, overall it was a necessary step to the future: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-review-part-8-verdict-144708 , concluding with "And Windows 8 was made for the future, not the past. This is exactly as it should be."

]]> Paul Thurrott has just come out with some concluding remarks about Windows 8. Although he acknowledges that not everyone will choose to upgrade, overall it was a necessary step to the future: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-review-part-8-verdict-144708 , concluding with “And Windows 8 was made for the future, not the past. This is exactly as it should be.”

]]> By: hoppy http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56580 hoppy Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:37:37 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56580 With Ballmer its a kinda mixed bag of emotions, he has made MS a better company in many ways but he has also had some right clangers. It looks like he will continue the "one good OS, one bad OS" routine, Vista was terrible, 7 was Vista on a fitness plan and 8 is just a complete mess. (that's from a desktop point of view). A still don't understand why MS are enforcing desktop users to work with no start menu or allowing Metro and touch components to be switched off. When MS force changes in their OS, people ignore that OS and 8 does a good job at ignoring its traditional users needs. Now before anyone starts that lemon of a argument about "fear of change", i have no problem and even enjoy learning new tech, but with Windows i just want to get my work done as quickly and stress free as possible, i don't want to play "hunt the settings game" anymore and 8 takes that to a new level. Ballmer has missed the point of tablets, a light OS for a light device with small apps and not dragging a thousand years of legacy crap behind it. The "one size fits all" approach is Ballmer believing that everything is based around Windows when the tablet market has done fine with no Windows devices. MS need big changes and when you have someone like Ballmer in charge those changes will never come as he can't think outside Windows, he still thinks that bringing out a new OS every 3/4 years is a good idea, this time it may see him finally leaving as MS wont get away with producing another broken operating system....

]]> With Ballmer its a kinda mixed bag of emotions, he has made MS a better company in many ways but he has also had some right clangers.
It looks like he will continue the “one good OS, one bad OS” routine, Vista was terrible, 7 was Vista on a fitness plan and 8 is just a complete mess. (that’s from a desktop point of view).

A still don’t understand why MS are enforcing desktop users to work with no start menu or allowing Metro and touch components to be switched off.
When MS force changes in their OS, people ignore that OS and 8 does a good job at ignoring its traditional users needs.
Now before anyone starts that lemon of a argument about “fear of change”, i have no problem and even enjoy learning new tech, but with Windows i just want to get my work done as quickly and stress free as possible, i don’t want to play “hunt the settings game” anymore and 8 takes that to a new level.

Ballmer has missed the point of tablets, a light OS for a light device with small apps and not dragging a thousand years of legacy crap behind it.
The “one size fits all” approach is Ballmer believing that everything is based around Windows when the tablet market has done fine with no Windows devices.
MS need big changes and when you have someone like Ballmer in charge those changes will never come as he can’t think outside Windows, he still thinks that bringing out a new OS every 3/4 years is a good idea, this time it may see him finally leaving as MS wont get away with producing another broken operating system….

]]> By: A Different Russ http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56579 A Different Russ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:41:07 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56579 I'm not Ballmer's biggest fan, but I have to give him cred for being friendly. I met him in the early 90s, and even though I was just a flunkie working in a hotel he let me play with his laptop for a couple minutes, the first I'd ever seen with a color screen.

]]> I’m not Ballmer’s biggest fan, but I have to give him cred for being friendly. I met him in the early 90s, and even though I was just a flunkie working in a hotel he let me play with his laptop for a couple minutes, the first I’d ever seen with a color screen.

]]> By: Freemon Sandlewould http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56578 Freemon Sandlewould Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:28:29 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56578 At least Bill Gates while arrogant is competent also...........unlike Obama who is only arrogant. Do the right thing. Vote Obama out of office.

]]> At least Bill Gates while arrogant is competent also………..unlike Obama who is only arrogant.

Do the right thing. Vote Obama out of office.

]]> By: Elvis Presley http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56577 Elvis Presley Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:57:36 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56577 The real Dr John replying to the real paul allen? Awesome!

]]> The real Dr John replying to the real paul allen? Awesome!

]]> By: Reinier http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56576 Reinier Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:46:40 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56576 Did you wrote "Post-PC" in your article? I wonder what you meant by that at the time.

]]> Did you wrote “Post-PC” in your article? I wonder what you meant by that at the time.

]]> By: Ronc http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56575 Ronc Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:57:19 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56575 Bob's main point "And Ballmer has guts, once taking an individual business risk..." is that it was risky since the value of the stock is only obvious in hindsight. True, one could argue that anyone who invests money in his own company has insider knowledge but that's what the legal system is for...to decide whether or not a law was broken and to what extent.

]]> Bob’s main point “And Ballmer has guts, once taking an individual business risk…” is that it was risky since the value of the stock is only obvious in hindsight. True, one could argue that anyone who invests money in his own company has insider knowledge but that’s what the legal system is for…to decide whether or not a law was broken and to what extent.

]]> By: Dave http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/#comment-56574 Dave Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:20:46 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4948#comment-56574 Maybe Balmer should Skilling? Its called insider trading? "In the late 1980s, when Microsoft was approaching the release of Windows 3.0 — the first version of the software to do more or less what it claimed — Ballmer borrowed almost $50 million against his Microsoft stock and anything else he owned, using the money to buy more Microsoft shares."

]]> Maybe Balmer should Skilling? Its called insider trading?

“In the late 1980s, when Microsoft was approaching the release of Windows 3.0 — the first version of the software to do more or less what it claimed — Ballmer borrowed almost $50 million against his Microsoft stock and anything else he owned, using the money to buy more Microsoft shares.”

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