Linked just for the funniest line I’ve seen in a while.

There was a demonstration of Microsoft’s Sink…sorry Sync product in Fords. Wow, an MP3 player that hardly anyone owns works in a car that most people wish they didn’t own once they…

It would be a very good move to move fast on this for Microsoft, and take out one of the only good reasons to purchase a PS3. Its a BD player.

Xbox with a BD would really damage PS3 to the point of Sony considering pulling it. In my opinion!

James

CEO and general Manager at the worlds most powerful and pervasive company, a mover and shaker with world changing influence and charisma. Don’t freaking cross me! Microsoft wants to “get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation,” A few of my more memorable quotes: “I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.” “There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.” “What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?” “I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There’s vision, patience, and execution.” “Google is an illusion” “I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.” “We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.” “That whole monkey-boy dance thing never happened, that wasn’t me, I was in Hardeeville that day” “I never threw a chair, uh, all of the chairs in my office are bolted down, so there!”"Linux is a cancer…”

“If Steve Jobs got on a stage and showed off a voice controlled car messaging and entertainment system, prototype camera phone with HUD […] the fanboys would be twitching in pools of drool.”

That’s because if Steve Jobs showed that stuff, you’d be able to buy most of it that day.”

Damn straight, Dan, right on the money.”Real artists ship”.

Seems? They “seem” like they aren’t as exciting (Microsoft Keynotes) because, people, the turth is they suck. Would anyone care to run down the list of dorky vapourware one-ofs that Microsoft perenially introduces, only to watch as the product disappears, never to be heard of again?

Anyone here have a Mira? A copy of Microsoft Bob? One of those idiotic watches? How many Origami devices got sold?

And seriously people. Apple gave us the iPhone and Microsoft demoes a giant table that isn’t actually a touch device, but hides a Vista PC with a projector and a collection of infra red detectors?

Give it a rest. There is no need to defend the Microsoft CES Keynotes because there is nothing to defend.

You want to see where the personal computer and consumer electronics are going? You watch Steve Jobs and Apple. It’s that simple.

Bill’s saying that within the next 5 years there will be thousands of people using touch technology to interface with their computers. Yeah Bill, you bet. It’s called the ‘iPhone’ !

Microsoft’s great ideas ? Tablet PCs ? SPOT ? or – god forbid – Bob ???

@andy, you wrote:
“Windows Server 2008 (think Server Core and Virtualisation), Visual Studio 2008 (easy .NET 3.5 web services) and IIS 7 (think lightweight easy deployment) could reignite interest in using .NET and Microsoft products as the technology stack for Web 2.0.”

You need to be Microsoft certified just to understand half that crap.

Is this a new development? Or is it 1990 through 2007 aqain?

ur article seems to point that MS Sync will only work with zune. that is incorrect. sync works with all players including ipod

if not, then that indeed would “suck”

That said, in my MS days, when we’d all got to the US for internal love-ins, Bill was always a bit of an anti-climax. I’m a BillG fanboy but he has the charisma of a used tissue. And the more his speeches got scripted by the PR dept, the less interesting he became. Post-DOJ it became pretty dull.

Ballmer was always the one who kept you awake for hours and hours and hours with his ranting and bouncing and screaming. I remember him giving a three hour talk once in New Orleans. 98 I think it was. Finished about 2am. Unbelievable.

That’s because if Steve Jobs showed that stuff, you’d be able to buy most of it that day.

Oh Duncan, you Holden fanboy

He’s a college drop-out who wrote a few lines of code when he was young. His crowning achievement was selling IBM an operating system his company didn’t even own at the time – and then going out and buying it.

None of this has anything to do with engineering. It’s amazing that people believe this line. It’s exactly what he wants you to believe, that he’s just a nerd who cares about software. And that is total BS.

His talent is licensing software on his terms. Oh, and lying to IBM. And generally screwing people over for money by over-promising and under-delivering.