[dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1

Pretty soon they'll be giving them away for free with an order of fries at McDonalds. :p

How well are Windows 8 Surface tablets selling anyways? Last i heard, none too well either.

- Hans


On 2013-06-03, at 9:34 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi John:
> 
> Along with your new tag, you have brought up a very interesting subject. It
> may be a little out of step for this list but it is definitely tech related.
> 
> Large tech firms all become arrogant and as they grow they forget who put
> them on the top. Many such companies have come and gone...Borland, VAX,
> Lotus, Novell, SCO and so on...they were momentarily huge but are now mostly
> gone and forgotten.
> 
> For decades Microsoft was run by a tough and shrewd business man, along with
> his sidekick (Sancho Panza(?)). Now his old sidekick is trying to run
> things. The new man is not an equal, not a visionary and viewed more as a
> court-jester. Ballmer's running of the company has caused it to stagger from
> one disaster to another. The only thing that has kept the company from
> collapsing has been the huge cash cows like Office and a stable of some of
> the finest developers and managers in the business. The truth is that MS
> could go on for a long long time with this type of leadership but it will
> never regain its once held position in the market and will just slowly
> erode.
> 
> Ballmer's latest disaster is Windows RT. 
> http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/03/microsoft-stop-trying-to-make-windows-rt-ha
> ppen/
> 
> Microsoft could have easily solved the new low powered chip issues like
> Linux did by simply making the OS handle it.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> jbartow at winhaven.net
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:42 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1
> 
> Name a company that doesn't do this. Has Google ever released anything not
> in "Beta"?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:20 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1
> 
> <rant mode on>
> Microsoft has violated one of the major laws of development:
> 
> "Treat your users as co-developers."
> 
> 
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