Comments on: In reply to… http://donburnside.com/archive/in-reply-to/ inter-media-gineering empire of Don Burnside Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:34:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: timmee http://donburnside.com/archive/in-reply-to/comment-page-1/#comment-60470 timmee Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:24:03 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1502#comment-60470 <p>what MS has, in my locality (South Africa), is a huge base of developers, writing bespoke business applications, across all business sectors, for a hungry business consumer base.</p> <p>were it not for the fact that there are excellent third party apps available, many businesses, including my own would not be running the MS OS.</p> <p>I run parallels on my Macbook solely because I have one crucial proprietary application. That runs in XP, not Vista, because XP is faster and less fiddly.</p> what MS has, in my locality (South Africa), is a huge base of developers, writing bespoke business applications, across all business sectors, for a hungry business consumer base.

were it not for the fact that there are excellent third party apps available, many businesses, including my own would not be running the MS OS.

I run parallels on my Macbook solely because I have one crucial proprietary application. That runs in XP, not Vista, because XP is faster and less fiddly.

]]> By: db http://donburnside.com/archive/in-reply-to/comment-page-1/#comment-60450 db Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:10:40 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1502#comment-60450 <blockquote> <p>Thoughtful stuff, db.</p> </blockquote> <p>You too. I was going to leave this as a comment on your site but it just got to long. Like I said, I'm not MS fanboy, just like to make sure the record is kept straight. Besides, if Microsoft wasn't around to make sub-standard products on poor hardware, how would Apple get any business?</p> <p>I'll look for that article. Not a fan of "worshipful accounts" but it sounds like it might be a great read.</p>

Thoughtful stuff, db.

You too. I was going to leave this as a comment on your site but it just got to long. Like I said, I’m not MS fanboy, just like to make sure the record is kept straight. Besides, if Microsoft wasn’t around to make sub-standard products on poor hardware, how would Apple get any business?

I’ll look for that article. Not a fan of “worshipful accounts” but it sounds like it might be a great read.

]]> By: Nathaniel Salzman http://donburnside.com/archive/in-reply-to/comment-page-1/#comment-60440 Nathaniel Salzman Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:22:22 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1502#comment-60440 <p>If you can get your hands on it, you should read that <em>Fast Company</em> article. It's so full of worshipful accounts of Alex Bogusky by internal CP+B people it's kind of sickening. I saw the second ad in the series tonight. Again, well executed, but all it shows me is how the hottest ad agency in the world completely missed the whole point of the Apple campaign in their rebuttal.</p> <p>Counting you, that's two people I know who would actually spend :30 to defend Microsoft for...well, anything. I do give Microsoft credit for having a very different problem to solve from Apple. They've got to build an OS to function on nearly infinite combinations of hardware. Apple doesn't have this problem. However, that's of their own choosing.</p> <p>Thoughtful stuff, db.</p> If you can get your hands on it, you should read that Fast Company article. It’s so full of worshipful accounts of Alex Bogusky by internal CP+B people it’s kind of sickening. I saw the second ad in the series tonight. Again, well executed, but all it shows me is how the hottest ad agency in the world completely missed the whole point of the Apple campaign in their rebuttal.

Counting you, that’s two people I know who would actually spend :30 to defend Microsoft for…well, anything. I do give Microsoft credit for having a very different problem to solve from Apple. They’ve got to build an OS to function on nearly infinite combinations of hardware. Apple doesn’t have this problem. However, that’s of their own choosing.

Thoughtful stuff, db.

]]> By: Josh http://donburnside.com/archive/in-reply-to/comment-page-1/#comment-60434 Josh Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:33:15 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1502#comment-60434 <p><i>And Windows has, essentially, worked exactly the same since Win95.</i></p> <p>That's cuz the code's essentially the same since Win95</p> <p>Microsoft does have their fair share of innovations and triumphs, I will concede them that. But I would also say that right now they're seriously behind, and it's hurting them more than they'd care to admit. The big thing we've yet to see is whether Ballmer will be able to steer the ship without little Billy Gates at the helm or not. <img src="http://filedump.panzerwaffle.org/images/doglaugh.gif"/></p> And Windows has, essentially, worked exactly the same since Win95.

That’s cuz the code’s essentially the same since Win95

Microsoft does have their fair share of innovations and triumphs, I will concede them that. But I would also say that right now they’re seriously behind, and it’s hurting them more than they’d care to admit. The big thing we’ve yet to see is whether Ballmer will be able to steer the ship without little Billy Gates at the helm or not.

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