Mark Simms
marksimms at verizon.net
Fri Jul 20 05:24:13 CDT 2012
Hans, that's a great mission statement. However, you'll never see Balmer embracing it. Microsoft cannot support what they already have. 1) My client's site has Server 2008 running and we cannot get our task scheduled Access process to email an alert if it fails. This was in Linux years ago. 2) Office 2010 has a beautiful façade, but if you start to automate it with VBA, you'll discover it's putrid - just a completely bug-ridden mess. So much so, that MSFT has not been able to issue any service packs past SP1. They've just been cobbling a punch of hot-fixes that get secretly issued. 3) This says it all: 1st loss since 1986. Ominous (remember RIMM ?). http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/can-microsoft-bounce-back-from-this-loss. html/ > If I envision a post-Windows world, it is a world where Microsoft > focuses > entirely on selling productivity software, software development > platforms/databases and enterprise applications that run on many > platforms. > > Imagine that... if Microsoft actually focused on the stuff they excel > at, > how cool would that be? Everyone would benefit, Microsoft especially. > > Hans