Bill & Jerry's Excellent Adventure.
If those guys decided to do a half hour every week I would be happy to tune in. Speaking of M$oft, the latest BusinessWeek has an article (p.84, Sept. 2008) that talks about HP's efforts to both rewrite sections of Vista to be more friendly and that they are apparently working to make a flavor of very easy to use Linux for some of their future PC's. Very interesting.
That same article says that M$oft are about to spend $300 million on advertising for Vista. Here's my take on what M$oft needs to do to repair some of the damage they have done with Vista.
A) Mea Culpa. Admit their bad on this one and simply pay back the cash with a promise not to do it again.
B) Start selling XP again. We like it, many of us in fact like it so much that companies like Dell started offering it on machines again even after Vista was released. Back by popular demand kind of thing. Windows classic.
C) Polish XP some more - it's not perfect, but it's pretty good. Make it boot to a browser in a hurry - look at what Splashtop has done in this regards - while bringing up the desktop slowly in the background. Make the OS more transparent. I want to know, definitively, what app's are being started on my machine and what is running in the background.
D) Stay out of DRM. I know you feel a need to get into IP protection so you can sell other services. Here's a novel idea. Sell and support a really good OS on just about every machine on the planet for ever more. You already have that business in hand... just stop screwing it up or, no kidding, sooner or later everybody is going to figure out that Linux is capable, free, doesn't impose DRM and isn't going to drastically change every few years to support some corporate agenda that has nothing to do with making a good and stable OS.
Man. I feel better now.
Peace,
L.
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