[dba-Tech] The new XBox has been holding the gamer to ransom but

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
> 
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