More Microsoft Bashing....
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Your definition of momentum is right. However momentum is being used wrongly in the statement. Microsoft's momentum means that it is not flexible to change direction. Due to beauracracy etc any large company becomes less flexible. Imagine if at CP to create a new emoticon it had to be approved by various sub-committees and took a few months. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
Ooh! Ooh! Dueling physicists! ColinDavies wrote: Microsoft's momentum inertia means that it is not flexible to change direction Mr. Newton, anyone? :laugh:
Software Zen:
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Ooh! Ooh! Dueling physicists! ColinDavies wrote: Microsoft's momentum inertia means that it is not flexible to change direction Mr. Newton, anyone? :laugh:
Software Zen:
delete this;Since momentum is a conservative property, Colin has the right of it. It's also a vector quantity, so not only is it difficult to slow or accelerate, but equally difficult to change its direction. Look for more of the same from our favorite behemoth.:-D "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
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I find this kind of funny. A friend of mine who hates "M$" sent this to me. I find it funny how all these companies and people are so focused on taking down Microsoft. I like Mac's, UNIX and Windows. I also get a kick out of people who love to bash "M$". I find it amusing. :laugh: http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/dont_look_now_but_the_coroner_is_measuring_microsoft_for_a_black_suit/
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. We shouldn't assume something's debugged just because everyone in the whole world has access to the source code.
Remove the word Microsoft and this article could be about any other company the writer happens to dislike. What's so absurd, and why the author will never run a successful company, is that he's openly advocating "when the going gets tough, give up." (It's actually worse than that since, for Microsoft, "the going" simply hasn't gotten tough by any measure except in the tiny minds of delusional critics.) (The silliest part is that the author is passing judgement on an operating system that hasn't even gone alpha, let alone beta, and is at least a year out. I wouldn't be surprised if he just took an article about XP from late 1999, changed a few words and republished it.) (This is more than a bit like the product manager who finds a bug in a pre-alpha release and proclaims that the engineers are all idiots, the project should be cancelled and a rewrite outsourced. True story. Guess who's no longer involved in the project.) [Edit: For those who are curious, a year or so ago, I read an article identical in tone concerning Boeing. After regrouping, Boeing is now on a serious rebound.] Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Your definition of momentum is right. However momentum is being used wrongly in the statement. Microsoft's momentum means that it is not flexible to change direction. Due to beauracracy etc any large company becomes less flexible. Imagine if at CP to create a new emoticon it had to be approved by various sub-committees and took a few months. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
The argument was that Microsoft has no momentum in growth/new releases/rabid fan base/whatever, and that Apple has tons of it. Angular momentum still depends on mass, but to stretch the analogy Apple is small in mass (and hence momentum) so, as you seemingly imply, is able to change it's direction of motion faster than Microsoft. If forced to change Microsoft, to really push things, will have a bigger moment than Apple. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Your definition of momentum is right. However momentum is being used wrongly in the statement. Microsoft's momentum means that it is not flexible to change direction. Due to beauracracy etc any large company becomes less flexible. Imagine if at CP to create a new emoticon it had to be approved by various sub-committees and took a few months. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
ColinDavies wrote: Microsoft's momentum means that it is not flexible to change direction. Due to beauracracy etc any large company becomes less flexible. Actually, I think Microsoft continues to show extraordinary flexibility. The whole .NET thing has been a gigantic change. If I was to criticise Microsoft, it would be for changing too rapidly to really design things well and work out the bugs. But that is simply my preference as a consumer. I couldn't argue that Microsoft's actual strategy has been less than a stunning success commercially. John Carson "The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has survived for centuries wihout smileys. Only the new crop of modern computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not Clearly Labelled as such." Ray Shea
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I find XP's UI repulsive and "The PlaySchool look" is a perfect description of it ! On every XP machine I have dealt with I immediately change to the "classic" theme and add my own color preferences.
So by your own admission you haven't actually worked with it? It takes a day and then you start to notice the improvements: faster identification of items, tasks, commands and purpose throughout the operating system. Did you think they changed the UI on a marketing whim?
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (QT)
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So by your own admission you haven't actually worked with it? It takes a day and then you start to notice the improvements: faster identification of items, tasks, commands and purpose throughout the operating system. Did you think they changed the UI on a marketing whim?
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (QT)
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I tried it when I first got a machine with XP on it and even with a color theme change I didn't like it. And yes, I DID think they changed it on a marketing whim.
Well the first part is up to you. I have seen all the die hard XP-theme haters I've worked with convert after giving a real try, you are obviously different. As to the second. it certainly wasn't done on a marketing whim. There is loads of information on the Microsoft Research site about inductive UIs if you want to learn more, and there was a lot of information going about at the time of its release.
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (QT)