Google's Envy - Microsoft's Pride

Microsoft is befriending Open [all is fair in love and war]

1. Outercurve is the torch bearer of the new open MS
2. Play fair and square with competing/upcoming tech on Azure - Hadoop , Linux , Java , PHP , NodeJS...
3. Advocate of DNT and other pro-consumer privacy policies
4. Contribute to and get leverage from FOSS [linux, webmatrix, mvc, razor, jquery, orchard...]
5. Participate in Google Summer of Code
6. OData

Microsoft is Kool

1. XBox
2. Kinect
3. Smart Glass
4. Kinect Glasses
5. Metro
6. Surface
7. Bing
8. Geeky stuff: Nuget , Powershell , MVC , Razor
9. Strong vibrant socialized community in MSDN, Stackoverflow, Codeplex
10. on{X}
11. Creates apps for Android and IOS
12. Mayhem

Microsoft is on par with respect to Web stuff

1. Html and Web standards are no longer foster children or an after thought. They have equal status to biological children such as Silverlight
2. IE 10 is on par [99.999%] to chrome, firefox, etc with respect to web standards
3. ASP.net has native support for; and encourages trendy kool kids of javascript world such as modernizr, jquery, etc
4. ASP.net now sees its RESTful architectures [web-api] as first class citizens

Samsung : Torch bearer of InfoTech and Consumer Electronics

You cant help but wonder at the journey of Samsung !

1. World's-largest IT producer, surpassing the previous leader, HP in 2009
2. Dominates the world TV market since 2006
3. Maintains the leading sales position for eight years in a row in LCD panels
4. With Galaxy Sxx , the company's SMARTPHONE lineup was first place in global sales figures since 2011
5. Top supplier in the HOME APPLIANCES market.
6. Among top 20 brands respected and recognized world over.
7. LEDs + Mem Chips [dram,sram] + Basic Phones + PCs
8. Sponsor of 2012 Olympics
9. Has "Admiration, Trust, Good Feeling and Overall Esteem" world over
10. Consumer Electronics - dvd, mp3, air conditioners
11. Supplies key components to all major mobile hardware companies.
12. Employees: 160,000   [ MS - 92,000    Apple - 60,400    Google - 33,000 ]
13. Friends of Google and whatever it takes to succeed; market driven partnerships with MS and Apple.


Silly people think google or microsoft will take over the home.

Microsoft owns living room because of XBox ! naaah

1. PC/Console Video game sales FALL ! 
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-game-sales-20120615,0,1688901.story

2. Mobile/Social games are IN
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-12-16-zynga-makes-USD1-billion-with-USD10-share-price
http://www.intomobile.com/2012/04/18/bloomberg-rovio-turned-down-2-billion-zynga/

3. We DO NOT need a Hardware/Console to play future AAA games.
XBox and PS3 are gonna get punched just like PC was knocked out by Web.
https://www.onlive.com/games/featuredgames#&tab=top_games

4. In a RECESSION [sorry for calling out the  Thing-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named], obviously versatility matters.

5. Samsung, Apple and Google are not fools sitting idly. [samsung is smart, google+sony , apple+jobs_nailed_tv , ... ]

The game is about what you catch, not what you spill

"When you have a bunch of smart people with a broad enough charter, you will always get something good out of it," Nathan Myhrvold, formerly a senior executive at Microsoft, argues. "It's one of the best investments you could possibly make—but only if you chose to value it in terms of successes. If you chose to evaluate it in terms of how many times you failed, or times you could have succeeded and didn't, then you are bound to be unhappy. Innovation is an unruly thing. There will be some ideas that don't get caught in your cup. But that's not what the game is about. The game is what you catch, not what you spill."

For W8 not to flop, Microsoft must talk openly and crowd source Metro-UI-Changes

Microsoft is doing a good job recently being open [participating/befriending in FOSS, announcing VS 2012 express for desktop apps ]

Now its time for that to come good and save itself from the windows 8 party crash.

I wish microsoft would listen to feedback not only from huge army of testers [wonder how many do usability testing ?]
but also from bloggers, media and general public all over the web and building-windows-8-blog in particular.

1. Clarify use-case scenarios for desktop use & metro use for different people in the society.

2. Make a wish-list / survey of expected changes as soon as possible.

3. Crowd source or invite suggestions from community. [remember 'I am a PC' and 'Smoked by WP7'] - wheres Ben - The PC guy when all major tech reviewers are blasting usability of upcoming W8 PC's.

4. Ofcourse we understand there are no qualms from a tablet perspective, only from desktop perspective.

5. why not 3 versions of win8: 1. only metro 2. only desktop 3. both.
   [sorry ! but I am desperate]

6. consult scott guthrie of asp and azure fame
Hope somebody at MS is listening

7. may be we can start by adding a start button of some kind ???

8. where are the howto videos / help and assistants like clippy ?

Google made the right moves but missed the Social boat

Google identified where people are flocking to on the internet - BlogSpot, Youtube, Mail, etc

and took them over ! They failed to link the people and data through relations and interests and are now

getting it right with Google+ as the fabric.