NEW ACCREDITATION FOR APPLE TECHS: “MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC ACCREDITED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL”
– Working together, MacTech and Microsoft are making available a new accreditation program for Apple consultants and techs
By Greg Mills
I just read an article where the author listed both the smart and stupid moves Microsoft made for the year. I was struck by the lack of anything revolutionary coming from the intellectually challenged Redmond campus. The Kinect video game sensor more or less topped the list of recently smart moves made by Ballmer. Even Kinect was purchased technology rather than innovation that came out of the massively funded R&D efforts at Microsoft. Microsoft has entered the “declining to irrelevance” phase of tech company evolution.
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By Greg Mills
The high tech miracle, a true cosmic wonder (pictured in the brown jacket), has officially been rendered obsolete. Actually, the high tech wonder on the right is the now obsolete item, Microsoft’s Zune Music Player. Bill Gates, also wearing a brown jacket, shown on the left, is still alive and doing his best to spend his money well, as Ballmer is doing his best to run Microsoft further into the ground. I wonder if Gates will relent now and allow his kids to own an Apple iPod now that the Zune is dead?
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Posted by Greg Mills
The press, especially MSNBC, is loaded these days with glowing stories about Microsoft’s Windows 8. I do not claim to be an expert on anything Microsoft, as I avoid their software like the plague. In my experience, OS X almost never crashes, but when it does go down, it is normally a Microsoft app that did it.
I have noticed interesting differences between Apple and Microsoft in their strategic approach to mobile platforms. That is the focus of this article.
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By Greg Mills
Wow, Microsoft has certainly improved Windows 8. Now, when the obligatory hourly reboot comes up — oh my gosh, did you save your work? — a remodeled “blue screen of death” pops up complete with an artistic flare. The standard blue screen now has some text advising the ever compliant PC user that the time has come again to reboot. (See http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/42056/blue-screen-of-death-windows8 .)
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By Greg Millls
Microsoft, stung by critics and stockholders alike, for missing the mobile revolution, is still playing catch-up on smart phones and now tablet computers. Apple is merging the iOS with OS X in many respects and Microsoft has taken a cue from Apple to do something similar with it’s flagship PC operating system and at least the look and feel of the new Windows Mobile OS, according to reports.
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Posted by Greg Mills
Always hopeful that they can do something right, Microsoft is launching Windows 8 within days. MSNBC, (the MS stands for Microsoft rather than the dreaded disease multiple scololsis), has recently posted a breathlessly hopeful story on the new PC OS. (Keep in mind, the author was told to write a story about a major product sold by the owner of his company.)
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Posted by Greg Mills
Always hopeful that they can do something right, Microsoft is launching Windows 8 within days. MSNBC, (the MS stands for Microsoft rather than the dreaded disease multiple scololsis), has recently posted a breathlessly hopeful story on the new PC OS. (Keep in mind, the author was told to write a story about a major product sold by the owner of his company.)
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By Greg Mills
I was amused by a recent story that was picked up by major news sources as proven fact: that Microsoft Internet Explorer users were less intelligent than those who use other browsers. =CNN, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, Forbes and other major news outlets were also taken in by the hoax. Shades of April Fools’ Day! It all seemed so logical and smacked of serious research. That most people bought the premise is quite telling. (See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14386833.)
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Posted by Greg Mills
Most significant Apple Apps were updated to run on Macs running Lion. Perhaps the most serious lapse was that Microsoft Office has some pretty serious problems that weren’t fixed prior to Lion being launched. Despite a long lead-in period through the Apple Developer program Microsoft’s Apple division allowed its most important Mac software title to go obsolete.
See; http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218618/Microsoft_spells_out_Office_for_Mac_bugs_in_Lion?taxonomyId=123
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Posted by Greg Mills
Microsoft is so inspired by Apple, they seem to copy everything Apple does. Ballmer has recently announced that Microsoft intends to launch at least 75 more Microsoft retail stores, within a couple of years. Ballmer presented a map of the US showing the cities that are soon to be graced with a Microsoft store in the coming year or so.
Not only have previous Microsoft stores been nearly next door or just across the hall from Apple Stores, even the layout and architectural details are borrowed from Apple’s successful retail stores.
Read MoreAddressing rumors of an Apple productivity suite reportedly called iWork, Microsoft said today that it remains on good terms with Apple and is already working on new versions of Office and Virtual PC. “Our relationship with Apple remains productive and strong,” Scott Erickson, group product manager for Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit, told CNET News.com.
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