From the “No body needs that, so please don’t” department: At CES 2020 Lenovo announced a new ThinkBook Plus with a 10.8-inch E ink display on the lid. This is a really really bad idea that is a very bad User eXperience (UX) design. This is what happens when tech companies do something just because they can, even when they shouldn’t.
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Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green in March 2012 With the massive failure of Surface, the upheaval in management and the comically embarrassing fumble with Windows RT, it’s time. Microsoft may be finally ready to kill Windows RT. At a UBS seminar Microsoft senior executive, Julie Larson-Green, appears to have admitted the failure of …
Microsoft announced today they are buying Nokia’s Devices & Services business. Effectively copying Apple again by trying to own the smartphone product end to end. Just like Apple does. Apparently the fragmented strategy that MS has used from day one, and the one that Google has employed with Android, just …
It seems not Wall Street, nor even Microsoft employees will miss Steve Ballmer. After the announcement that Ballmer will be retiring within the next year, Wall Street said YIPPY Party Time !!!! M$ stock jumped up. Meantime, not even Microsoft employees will miss the big teddy bear. It seems Big …
Still crazy, after all these years A lot of speculation has been floating around lately, about whether Steve Ballmer would be fired from Microsoft due to the recent Windows 8 and Surface fiascos being the last straw. Well, the wondering can end. Big B is gonna retire within a year. …
Read MoreMicrosoft won’t have to fire Ballmer. He’s retiring
This Computerworld article reports that: Buyers reject touchscreen notebooks, spooked by higher prices and concerns about value of Windows 8’s touch UI The article makes a number of interesting points. But I think doesn’t go into the most important reason why Windows 8 touch devices and Surface RT are failing. The …
Big M just can’t get a break. (Can’t escape from their mighty screw ups) Apparently some Microsoft shareholders think that Ballmer and friends lied about how big of a disaster the Surface RT was, and they want some payback. The suit claims that: “[Microsoft] led the market to believe that …
A MacRumors report rounds up the estimates on Microsoft Surface sales. And it’s not good for the Big M. While Microsoft did not reveal how many Surface units it sold, GeekWire does estimate that it sold approximately 1.7 million units by the end of June, which roughly corroborates a Bloomberg …
In a report from The Verge Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer finally admits during an internal town hall event earlier this week that: “We built a few more devices than we could sell” Well done Captain Obvious !!! But wait…. There’s more. Stevie B also apparently had another epiphany, cause he also said: …
Read MoreBallmer finally admits Microsoft having problems selling Surface and Windows 8
With Microsoft’s latest anti-iPad ad, they are starting to look sad and pathetic. (I’m being generous here – they’ve look sad from the beginning). Microsoft Releases New Anti-iPad Ad Highlighting Surface Accessories MacRumors – Friday July 19, 2013 This one highlights the Surface stand, keyboard and USB port. It’s sad cause …
Microsoft ads say….. Surface is better than iPad. Microsoft actions say….. Well…. Actually…..Aaaaa. No, not really. The Surface sucks so bad we have to slash prices. Microsoft Shuffles Executives MacRumors – Thursday, July 11, 2013 Microsoft is stealing from Apple again… “Microsoft hopes that its new focus on unity may help …
Read MoreMicrosoft Forced to Slash Surface RT Prices & Reorganize company
If you haven’t been tracking the market, MS, Sony and maybe even Apple are on the verge of releasing new gaming platforms. The one area where Microsoft isn’t sucking giant elephant ass :-)) and it looks like they’re starting to screw that market up too. The good old Redmond magic …
It’s not just that Windows 8 & RT sucks giant elephant ass !!! It’s that there’s just no THERE there….. There’s no touch apps there. Not enough anyway. And…. Nobody cares anymore. They misfired soooo many times for 2 decades now on the tablet thing, and about half that long …
More stats to support a Post PC Era paradigm shift. Tablet’s forecasted to blow past PCs – From this story on MacRumors. (Blue line in the graph on the right) From April: Research Firm: PC Sales Plunge as Windows 8 Flops “Unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only …
Read MoreTablet Market Projected to Surpass Notebooks in 2013, Total PC Market in 2015
More evidence that we are in a post PC world ? PC market share drops 14% and Windows 8 is sucking. So I suggest, if you’re not already, that you ready your career for this paradigm shift and invest money and skills development in both Apple iOS and Android. You …
Read MoreMobile killing PCs ? – Overall PC Market Plunges 14% Year-Over-Year
MS death watch ? Perhaps. If they don’t do something in phones and tablets that’s worth a crap. From Splat F, No mobile comeback for Microsoft. “We’re only talking about the world’s biggest software company and the future of computers. So far, (Microsoft is) still basically irrelevant.” “…the momentum Microsoft …