Wow, people sure are anti-MS and anti-x86 for mysterious reasons.
Equally Microsoft must be coming to terms with it all too. Their thousands of X86 programs are meaning less and less now, out dated and superior software appearing on phones!
I don't know about "their" thousands of x86 programs but I do know that MS has been supporting ARM on phones for years just like everyone else, with WinCE/Mobile and now WP7. It's a little cruel to blame MS for an alleged superiority of apps over desktop programs. It's an extremely broad and not especially fair comparison anyway.. the form factors are both better suited to different things and the markets have different potentials. A lot of great things are being done on phones and tablets these days but most of us are still using computers for at least something. And you don't really need thousands of apps for the core of what you do, just a few.
They desperately hang to their old and crappy products.
Their "old and crappy" product lines are what sell - Windows 7 is MS's biggest moneymaker by far right now and Office continues to be strong. Meanwhile, MS is known for losing huge money on all sorts of new endeavors. Not that they don't try. But there's nothing wrong with continually playing to their strengths when it's what the market wants.
x86_64 (thanks AMD) have nice days left, but the final countdown is on. I'm convinced AMD ARM/MIPS will come soon.
Interesting, you praise AMD solely for making x86 64-bit (okay, there were some other changes but I doubt you care as much) but stand by ARM which is still 32-bit at a point where it probably needs to move to 64-bit pretty soon.
AMD has
three new x86 cores, I don't think they'd like to spread themselves even thinner by licensing more tech. They'll probably instead do their best to move Bobcat further down, which is a process already underway. If the entire world uses nothing but < 1W CPUs for anything then there'll be a problem for companies like them but I definitely can't see this happening regardless of the current smart phone and tablet euphoria. That growth is going to plateau and people will still use their computers.
Windows is dead : they can't port it to ARM, because they have bad engineers, so it's a vaporware.
Gee, Windows 7 sales are doing well and meanwhile MS announced Windows 8 is coming to ARM. But they can't port it because they have "bad engineers", so that's an empty threat, right? I know some people who work at MS, I wonder just what you think of them. Apparently that doing a complex OS is possible but porting it to ARM is beyond their capabilities.
And Linux is almost 20 years ahead.
How in the world do you qualify a statement like that? Maybe in 20 years you could draw some data showing it.. at any rate, more vague superiority claims without any real substance. Can you start listing tangible complaints and praise or have you just been running on autopilot for a while now?
They were forced to put kinect on the market (i'm sure this device was ready little time after wiimote), their last joker.
Kinect is doing great. Not just in sales, but the hacker crowd is going nuts over it. Can't really complain there. Even my MS-hating coworker has it. It really opens up way more than Wii did, and in the gaming market complaining about who came up with what first is appropriate for companies trying to market sour grapes. All that matters is who has what right now, and Kinect is anything but late. Besides, I don't see criticism for Playstation Move paired with your Kinect hate..
And windows phone is an epic failure.
http://mashable.com/2010/12/21/windows-phone-7-sales/
1.5 million sales in 6 weeks is not groundbreaking but it's definitely not what I'd consider an "epic failure." It'll probably remain third tier (if not fourth) but so long as it has enough of a market to justify its costs it won't be a failure. Of course, MS does have a habit of spending far too much to win a market and then ending up far in debt (see original XBox), so it remains to be seen if WP7 turns out like this.
Gates and Ballmer sold many shares, and high executives are living the company... No need to say more.
If you think MS is making bad decisions it'd stand to reason that high executives leaving would be a good thing. It's strange that someone like yourself would judge a company's merit based on its stock activity...
