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Hasn't anyone learned yet... the consumers decide, not you corporations. You predicted about the Desktops' demise... you were wrong, you predicted about the pads' and tablets' not going anywhere... you were wrong, You predicted that Windows Vista and ME would be a hit... need I say more.
where Microsoft rules.
It's okay to mention the losses, but if you're going to fair and honest, then you have to mention the big winners that Microsoft has created.
It's like you talking about a baseball team, that wins 80% of it's games, but you only mention the other 20% to talk about how bad he team is.
It's okay to mention the losses, but if you're going to fair and honest, then you have to mention the big winners that Microsoft has created.
It's like you talking about a baseball team, that wins 80% of it's games, but you only mention the other 20% to talk about how bad he team is.
That's True... I absolutely agree.... but I never intended to put microsoft down, Just their highly noted predictions.
innovation.
Everybody makes predictions, and without the hope of changing the future, the whole world stagnates. Furthermore, all companies in technology had better be making predictions about where their technology is heading, and Microsoft is probably better equipped than any other company to make their predictions turn into reality.
Everybody makes predictions, and without the hope of changing the future, the whole world stagnates. Furthermore, all companies in technology had better be making predictions about where their technology is heading, and Microsoft is probably better equipped than any other company to make their predictions turn into reality.
Tablets...aren't....going anywhere. They won't for years, this isn't Star Trek/Stargate Atlantis.
The developers and content creators in this video? I would assume all MS internal devs are already doing all their work on a touch-screen. I'd assume the video was produced entirely on a tablet using a touch interface. ......
Please ... can somebody credible predict the future - without Microsoft OS?
Everyone assumes that we all want to be Larry Ellison, and have life completely automated. However the problem is that life cannot be automated; only tasks can. These tasks must first be decided upon by humans, and we know that circumstances change by the minute. No thanks, I want to set my alarm clock, stock my fridge on my own and carrying my information in my wallet or in my notebook is preferable to having a third party manage it for me...
They'll all have Genuine People Personalities (GPP)!
And GPP in cars, too. Imagine -- you car actually telling you that you need to fasten your seat belt! Isn't that a great idea?
And GPP in cars, too. Imagine -- you car actually telling you that you need to fasten your seat belt! Isn't that a great idea?
I guess.... But imagine it tells you to slow down... despite the tornado behind you, because it doesn't think it's safe on a gravel road, then because you refuse too, it slaps on the breaks it's self?
...is the future!
Why must 'future' mean 50 years time? Besides 5yrs IS just round the corner.
It'll be interesting to see if/how the wireless infrastructure required for the majority of the ideas will cope.
As for a future without Microsoft.
Alongside Microsoft only Apple and Google currently have the wherewithall and consumer focus to achieve the entire concept of what's proposed. To drive any future vision we need these three and more to be competing tooth and nail.
Long may it stay that way.
Why must 'future' mean 50 years time? Besides 5yrs IS just round the corner.
It'll be interesting to see if/how the wireless infrastructure required for the majority of the ideas will cope.
As for a future without Microsoft.
Alongside Microsoft only Apple and Google currently have the wherewithall and consumer focus to achieve the entire concept of what's proposed. To drive any future vision we need these three and more to be competing tooth and nail.
Long may it stay that way.
Infrastructure cannot handle that level in the near future. But even worse... Who trusts the "big 3" to keep our information secure, and reimburse us for loss, if it is even possible (loss of non-replaceable items). I have had 3 instances in the last 2 years of my bank giving me a new credit card number because they were hacked / "had an exposure". I lost nothing. How forthcoming does anyone think they would be to admitting "instantly" that they were hacked, and even more to expect them to do anything for you about it. You all know their "shrink-wrap get (them) out of jail free" cards. Does anyone really think they are going to help. As in the latest with Google saying if you post photos "they are ours" forever, royalty free, even if you stop using our service, forever. Does this Sound like someone you would trust with patentable ideas, financial information, etc? Finally, I said if... The question is when and how many times, not if, they will be hacked. I was in MI in the army, we ALWAYS operated under the assumption that anything one man can conceive, another can circumvent. All you can do is slow the burglar down, you cannot stop him/her. All of everyone's "stuff" THAT would be the Holy Grail of hacking.
Google and Apple are certainly innovators, but for as long as I can remember Microsoft has simply copied what others had already done.
Microsoft predicts something I already experience.
1.
Does MS people not travel around the world ?
I experience already in many hotels : " .... you can walk into a hotel room and the television immediately displays your favourite channel; the alarm clock sets itself to your preferred time to wake up; the coffee machine works out whether you prefer black or white coffee and begins making you a cup ..... "
2.
It is fine to relay at outside sources for your IT.
Of course you need " .... powerful computers will be embedded in the world around us ... ".
But what about the certainty to have :
- the electric power available
- the network connection working.
Travelling a lot, I experienced in South-East Asia and the Far East many times that one of the 2 above points did not allow me to be connected on internet. Even in the West.
3
In the future,
do we not need to take into consideration :
1. the overloaded power grids ?
2. the "even better performing" hackers to annoy those " .... powerful computers will be embedded in the world ... " ?
3. the increasing security breaches of messages on internet
Another such forecast :
The paperless world.
I hear that already in the 80ties.
Good Marketers & Salesmen are selling what you do not need.
1.
Does MS people not travel around the world ?
I experience already in many hotels : " .... you can walk into a hotel room and the television immediately displays your favourite channel; the alarm clock sets itself to your preferred time to wake up; the coffee machine works out whether you prefer black or white coffee and begins making you a cup ..... "
2.
It is fine to relay at outside sources for your IT.
Of course you need " .... powerful computers will be embedded in the world around us ... ".
But what about the certainty to have :
- the electric power available
- the network connection working.
Travelling a lot, I experienced in South-East Asia and the Far East many times that one of the 2 above points did not allow me to be connected on internet. Even in the West.
3
In the future,
do we not need to take into consideration :
1. the overloaded power grids ?
2. the "even better performing" hackers to annoy those " .... powerful computers will be embedded in the world ... " ?
3. the increasing security breaches of messages on internet
Another such forecast :
The paperless world.
I hear that already in the 80ties.
Good Marketers & Salesmen are selling what you do not need.
Speaking to your point #1,
1. Where have you stored that information?
2. Why do these hotels have access to it?
3. What other information do they have access to?
1. Where have you stored that information?
2. Why do these hotels have access to it?
3. What other information do they have access to?
On the network connection thing, this is the whole problem with cloud computing. Moreover even if you do get a connection, the hotel is going to charge you and I can't see that ever changing. And not only that, but do you really trust the hotel internet connection? Especially WiFi. Another issue looking at the screenshot from the car are roaming issues - do you have a data package on your device(s) that doesn't cost an arm and leg when you're abroad?
These are issues I face all the time. Microsoft just seems to assume that magically all of these internet connection issues will disappear in the next couple of years, which they won't, because especially in European countries with heavily built up areas (i.e. blocking 3G and WiFi reception) and very old infrastructure (i.e. hard to put cable in, which is why DSL came about) it's hard to fix them. Also a lot of countries have state-run monopolies on telecommunications who really don't give a damn about everyone having a 100 Mbps connection to their homes. Look at what happened in Mexico when the state-run electricity provider was broken up - the amount of time it took to get a hook up dropped from months to weeks.
Microsoft just seems to be trying to leverage a technology that doesn't exist yet, i.e. super reliable low cost high-speed networks.
These are issues I face all the time. Microsoft just seems to assume that magically all of these internet connection issues will disappear in the next couple of years, which they won't, because especially in European countries with heavily built up areas (i.e. blocking 3G and WiFi reception) and very old infrastructure (i.e. hard to put cable in, which is why DSL came about) it's hard to fix them. Also a lot of countries have state-run monopolies on telecommunications who really don't give a damn about everyone having a 100 Mbps connection to their homes. Look at what happened in Mexico when the state-run electricity provider was broken up - the amount of time it took to get a hook up dropped from months to weeks.
Microsoft just seems to be trying to leverage a technology that doesn't exist yet, i.e. super reliable low cost high-speed networks.
What dimension do you vacation/travel in? Unless you have nanomachines in you and there is a lot of scifi tech around that we don't know about, or you are the CEO of the hotel and your personality is programmed into the tech, I call bollocks.
I confidently predict a past without computers. I can also make a 99.99% certainty prediction of a future without humans.
100% certain that today I will go to work and drink coffee, continue reading things, looking things up, and working on an 11 year old Dell laptop which does everything I need, including not running any bloat malware from Microsucks "Microsoft predicts".. when they have something to sell which other people have developed and thought up, then bought them out or litigated them into the ground of course they "predict" .. after all it's not about us, it's about their bottom line.
100% certain that today I will go to work and drink coffee, continue reading things, looking things up, and working on an 11 year old Dell laptop which does everything I need, including not running any bloat malware from Microsucks
"Microsoft predicts".. when they have something to sell which other people have developed and thought up, then bought them out or litigated them into the ground of course they "predict" .. after all it's not about us, it's about their bottom line. 
Just imagine what will happen when the MS based system hangs. At least today we have Ctrl+_Alt+ Del. In future, we may have to bang our head, twist our hand and stomp - all at once to reset the device !
In the past the driver for mass take up of new technoolgy has always been the "killer app". I don't see it here.
Neither iPhone nor iPad start out with any killer app. They all started with ordinary every day fart apps.
So you're saying "fart apps" are all they need to drive what will obviously be many thousands of dollars of investment at every location around the world? Sorry, I have to raise the marketing BS flag. This is far more than gadgets and toys like smart phones and tablets. They're trying to sell us stuff we don't need and we may realize we don't want. I predict this will go into the same file as jetpacks and flying cars. We may see some parts of this, but nowhere near this unified scenario.
If you have fart apps, you need a fart pad.
Google it. Somebody has actually designed a carbon mesh fart pad. I kid you not.
The developers of this product only forgot proper marketing. The pad should have Steve Jobs face on it.
Google it. Somebody has actually designed a carbon mesh fart pad. I kid you not.
The developers of this product only forgot proper marketing. The pad should have Steve Jobs face on it.
Ben Franklin, the great American scientist, inventor, statesman, humorist, and [very much else] wrote "A Letter To A Royal Academy" in 1781, wherein he suggests that the Royal Academy of Brusselles offer a prize:
"To discover some Drug wholesome and not disagreeable, to be mixed with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the Natural Discharges, of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreeable as Perfumes."
"To discover some Drug wholesome and not disagreeable, to be mixed with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the Natural Discharges, of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreeable as Perfumes."
There are a lot of things, a lot of them technology based, that weren't needed or wanted, until somebody came up with the idea and/or invention, and then, everybody wanted one. Texting wasn't a killer app, until somebody thought of it and created it. GPS wasn't a killer app, until somebody took the idea and put it on a small device, and then, millions of people wanted it.
...Ubiquity. All of the computer resources you need to perform any task possible with a computer, available to you all the time, everywhere you go. That's the ultimate killer app.
All very well for people who wear glasses, but what about us guys with perfect 20/20 vision...
Going by the way screens dominate our life - phones, TV, computers, tablets - we all will need glasses by the end of this year - so its not far fetched to imagine every one wearing glasses !
It's rare that anyone who has 20/20 vision today won't someday require glasses. It affects us all. Just hang around a bit - you'll see.
Better yet - ask your doctor or someone older than 50 if you don't believe me.
Better yet - ask your doctor or someone older than 50 if you don't believe me.
Glasses were just given as a possible example of how future tech might be utilized not as a concrete technology.
So we're going to put microsoft networked computers in everything to save us all the time and effort of setting our alarm clocks or picking what channel the TV is on, or turning on the coffee maker? That's just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I'd like to see a digital interface for my alarm clock that would allow me to enter my numbers without going through a whole sequence of sixty minutes and having to go through them again if I overshoot when setting. That would be very practical, and a great convenience, but it wouldn't require a networked proprietary operating system, so according to microsoft's version of the future, it's not in the cards. A coffee maker that dispenses lattes automatically would be pretty cool. Why are we putting a computer in it again?
Probably something to do with new sources of ad revenue.
I'd like to see a digital interface for my alarm clock that would allow me to enter my numbers without going through a whole sequence of sixty minutes and having to go through them again if I overshoot when setting. That would be very practical, and a great convenience, but it wouldn't require a networked proprietary operating system, so according to microsoft's version of the future, it's not in the cards. A coffee maker that dispenses lattes automatically would be pretty cool. Why are we putting a computer in it again?
Probably something to do with new sources of ad revenue.
Instead of criticism, Consumers & Critics would be fawning over this ...
My laptop running WIN 7 has hung up several times, and Ctrl+Alt+Del failed to have any effect, and I had to unplug power cord,and remove battery pack, forcing a shutdown. Just wait 25 seconds and restart with problem gone! David E. Morehouse ret.
Next time instead of hard resetting try pressing Shift+Ctrl+Delete its different on Windows 7!
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