Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Jun 12 10:50:51 CDT 2013
Hi Martin: I do not complain about Microsoft for what they are. Over the years Microsoft has been very good to me. That said, though, many of Microsoft's moves in the industry have been very stupid. There are real reasons why Microsoft went from around 95 percent of the market to 30 percent. The Xbox design is the latest blunder and it is going to cost them plenty. It didn't take no business guru to realize that they had pushed things just too far. I am not condemning all of Microsoft just the dumb stunts they do. These errors that they have been making, in the last ten years, are at the management level. The management just doesn't quite get it as they are a little out of phase with reality. What Microsoft has in their favour is their technical excellence. I do not believe that Microsoft will ever disappear but their current management could not disappear soon enough. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin Reid Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:22 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The new XBox has been holding the gamer to ransom but You know this argument from some of you reminds me of the early days of the peace process here. Being a nationalist community member the only thing that would have made Unionists happy was if we had stripped naked and marched to Downing Street on our Knees. No matter what was offered or done it made little to no difference to some of them? I get the same feeling here. No matter what MS do or don't do it will never be enough for some of you. Well other than going out of existence. I really cannot see what the problem is with this company that makes people hate it so much. Personally I don't care what software we use. The strategic direction we have taken is MS. So what! It does what it says it will do and for us it does it very very well, they are here when required to sort out what doesn't. We have the good fortune to get very preferential pricing of course which influences the choices, I grant that. Do we have issues yes of course we do and do those issues require extra development effort yip they do but everything does anyway. We have yet to meet an issue we cannot resolve and we support every browser under the sun. Mobile devices of all sorts, email clients of all types and multiple operating systems from server to client. Oh and from what I hear from my kids and their mates the only issue they have with XBOX 1 is the price. Not that it matters to them of course as I will be paying for it should they upgrade!! Well santa will deliver it of course! Martin -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian Andersen Sent: 12 June 2013 07:04 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The new XBox has been holding the gamer to ransom but Yeah. Pretty much everyone is outraged against the Xbox One (and what a stupid name for a console. What do you call the original Xbox now?). I don't have an Xbox, so it doesn't really affect me, but this is the general sentiment I get across the board from every social media site I frequent. Anger towards Microsoft and enthusiasm for Sony. Microsoft has really screwed up here as well - which is a shame. The Xbox was a symbol of a Microsoft turning a new leaf. Oh well. I hope they come to their senses and do a 180. - Hans On 2013-06-11, at 10:56 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > ...Sony sucker-punches Xbox on price, specs, DRM-free gaming. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/11/sony_undercuts_outpowers_xboxone_dis > misses_drm/ > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com