Microsoft can shrink their $10,000 Surface tables and add a battery. done.

Microsoft can shrink their $10,000 Surface tables and add a battery. done.

It better be a user replaceable battery or it is a deal breaker as far as I am concerned

They have some Surface devices at the local MicroSoft Store, I need to try one out.

Let’s use Apple’s Vampire batteries

As I recall, Microsoft did nothing to “make things happen with” netbooks. They originally shipped with versions of Linux and sold pretty well. Microsoft, acting as usually out of fear, allowed old versions of Win XP to ship with netbooks as Vista was too great a pig to run on them. So, just as with the iPad, Microsoft realizes they are in the process of being upstaged and will act belatedly to stem the bleeding.

Is it me, or does Ballmer look like a dirty old uncle saying “Pull my thumb”?

Mac Observer: there needs a way to submit quotes for your photos.

1. Microsoft had a chance to help make a popular, useful tablet, but blew it by having the tablet use Windows and a stylus, not to mention the weight and short battery life. Now, they’re trying to play catch-up after wasting time and money.

2. “When talking about Bing having doubled the number of searches over the last 13 months since Bing was introduced ...”

Since it started at zero, one would have expected Bing searches to have increased infinitely. Seriously, it’s easy to double a small number.

For quite a while, Microsoft artificially inflated Bing searches through their “cash-back” program. If you searched for a product using Bing, then bought it through their search link, Microsoft would give you a rebate. They would even do this for eBay auctions.

“They’ve sold more than I’d like them to sell.”

Why?!? What’s wrong with Apple selling tablets? Stupid thing to say. Call me crazy, but M$ is a software publisher; why not right software for it and sell it. Remember your cash cow Office? Remember where Word came from? That’s right, it started on the Mac - a computer that has never run Windoze as its default OS.

What a jerk.

Jsk: “why not right software for it and sell it”

Microsoft does write software, just not the “right” software.

Oh my God, we suck. And people are finding out! Hurry, Steal some good ideas from Apple like we always do!

Then, call it your own and the lemmings of the world will think we’re smart!

The only thing more corrupt than Microsoft is Dick Cheney.

Steve Ballmer is channeling his inner Terry Bradshaw in that photo.

Sorry Steve, your time has passed.

MS needs new blood and new ideas. That might or might not be enough, but what you have today is a shrinking dinosaur. Win7 and Office make lots of cash but who has the mindshare ? That is where the future is, and you’re not there

If I was an investor in M$ I would now be seriously worried. This guy is a PR liability - he’s practically admitting that they are going to play catchup in a device category that Apple have already well and truly staked out their territory. If you look at the iPod they played catchup with Zune… iPhone, I don’t even know. And now iPad… This guy needs to retire.

Yes, Microsoft totally made the best app for enabling users to search using Bing.  They own that space.

Now, Ballmer wishes he could translate that success [writing a custom app to access Bing better than their plain web site] to other things, like say, writing a phone or desktop OS, he would have it made.

The problem with Ballmer at the helm of Microsoft is that he is a “Salesman”, not a visionary.

Give it a few weeks, there will be some announcement that Ballmer wants to put Microsoft into debt in order to buy some tablet PC company for $46B so he can get back in the race.

“Ballmer told analysts and investors that working with hardware partners to develop a tablet that is competitive with the iPad has “job one urgency””

Translation: “Hello, Dell? What’s your best price for all of your tablet technology?” “Hello, Acer? What’s your best price.” Hello, India Human Resource Development Minister? About this $35 tablet…”

Ultimately it comes down to this. You had a nice run. But your tech and support are no longer useful.

Take your 8-track player and your zip drives and go home.

Just what MS investors need,  another XBox give away trying enter a market by copying someone else’s successful product, and never being able to catch up. Ballmer is from the Dudley Do-right School of marketing, “Lose on every sale but make it up in the volume”

Someone has got to tell him it’s a lot easier to simply allow his people to be creative and design their own new products.  But of course that would require a CEO that knows and good product from a bad one.

Why is this man still the CEO of an important technology company that is going nowhere

We are working with those partners to deliver something people want to go buy.

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