Microsoft Explains Why the Start Menu Needed to Die

[ondeadlin]

Maybe in a year or two, sadly due to the recent loss of Steve Jobs, Apple will do what they could have done for years and license their interface to non-Apple companies. They could own the PC desktop / laptop / tablet / netbook world if they do. Mr Jobs just would never allow it (he liked the total control) but it is money waiting for them in the billions as well as prestige if they ever do it. I for one wold love to see it happen then let the true innovators of today - Apple & Google along with tiny players like WebOS - fight it out. We'd all be better off.

I wonder if the moment has really passed for any sort of licensing bonanza for Apple. The move these days is firmly away from desktop and laptop PCs and toward mobile devices of various sorts, where Apple obviously already does quite well. There will, of course, always be some market of desktops/laptops, and there's clearly money to be made for all involved, but I'm just not sure how big the money would be. OTOH, you could argue that now's the time to do it, before the market shrinks even more.

 

[Corman]

wow, I never realised there were soooo many Isheep here. Many seem to have consumed their fair share of Apple's special kool aid.
Been using Vista for 4 years, it just works, no bugs. I am eager to see what MS has in store for me in the future

 

[pjrose]

You can often tell where the Windows OS is going by looking where the mac OS has been

 

[Cheryl20772]

John Scully, former Apple CEO:
The legendary statement about Microsoft, which is mostly true, is that they get it right the third time.

Ah, you mean we should go back to Windows 3.0 :rofl:

 

[Clemson Fan]

Duplicate post - sorry

 

[Clemson Fan]

wow, I never realised there were soooo many Isheep here. Many seem to have consumed their fair share of Apple's special kool aid.
Been using Vista for 4 years, it just works, no bugs. I am eager to see what MS has in store for me in the future

Vista was horrible!!! I had it for about a year on a new desktop and laptop and I finally got so pissed off with it (it completely crashed on me multiple times on both computers) that I just gave away that desktop and laptop and purchased my very first iMac.

I've since purchased a laptop about a year or so ago with W7 on it which is far better then Vista. I actually like W7 a lot and I like it better then Mac OS X although the iLife suite of programs on the iMac is better then anything MS offers. I just like the underlying interface of W7 a little better. I'm not looking forward to W8 and really would prefer to just stick with W7.