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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Finally Admits Its Own Operating System Sucks

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Finally Admits Its Own Operating System Sucks
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:09:54 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft: It's Not Our Fault Our Operating System Sucks

,----[ Quote ]
| But how about this: Microsoft admits that Apple's operating system is much 
| easier to use. That's news. And it happens in today's NYT. But the Microsoft 
| executive in question, J Allard, isn't talking about PCs, he's talking about 
| phones. And he's not taking responsibility for the problem, either: instead, 
| he's blaming the wireless carriers.    
`----

http://seekingalpha.com/article/54786-microsoft-it-s-not-our-fault-our-operating-system-sucks?source=yahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2lebz3


Recent:

Reaching for Apple, Falling Short

,----[ Quote ]
| Frankly, Windows Mobile 6 is a mess. Common features require an infinitude of 
| taps and clicks, and the ones you need most are buried in menus. Apparently 
| the Windows Mobile 6 team learned absolutely nothing from Windows Mobile 1, 
| 2, 3, 4 and 5.   
`----

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08pogue.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


Related:

PCs being pushed aside in Japan

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| The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly 
| on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act 
| like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles, 
| digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.   
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs


Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices

,----[ Quote ]
| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we 
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for 
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging 
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of 
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.    
`----

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html


Google's mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying

,----[ Quote ]
| It is also another awe-inspiring -- or terrifying, depending on one's 
| perspective -- display of the engineering and business resources Google can 
| unleash and of the power it has to influence, disrupt and rearrange markets.  
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071106/tc_infoworld/93133


Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile

,----[ Quote ]
| Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional 
| investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech 
| Computer Corpto design a Linux 
| software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.   
`----

http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073


Closed iPhone opens road for Linux phones

,----[ Summary ]
| With iPhone a closed platform, Linux gets an wide-open road for phones and 
| other smart devices 
`----

http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/08/apple_gives_lin.html?source=rss


Microsoft's vision for universal mobile platform a little blurred

,----[ Quote ]
| Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows Mobile is currently not even in the 
| second runner in the smartphone operating systems race. Linux, which is 
| widely used on mobile devices in China, is second to Symbian with more than 
| 13% market share. Windows mobile is a distant third with about 6% share.   
`----                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15017/1023/


After the Desktop -- What?

,----[ Quote ]
| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular 
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
`----

http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html


Linux expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010

,----[ Quote ]
| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
`----

http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/


FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS

,----[ Quote ]
| I see the mobile Linux wave out in the ocean and am sounding the
| alarm--the mobile Linux tide is rising. Be prepared.
`----

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/feature-mobile-linux-why-it-will-become-the-dominant-mobile-os/2007-01-03


Linux Growth Accelerates with Server Shipments in 4th QTR 2006

,----[ Quote ]
| Unit shipment growth was flat (0.0% growth) year over year in 4Q06, the
| tenth consecutive quarter of slowing overall shipment growth...
| 
| After two consecutive quarters of single-digit revenue growth, Linux
| server revenue growth accelerated once again, growing 15.3% to $1.8
| billion when compared with 4Q05.
`----

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Hardware/Linux_Growth_Accelerates_with_Server_Shipments_in_4th_QTR_2006


Windows Mobile flaws could crash phones

,----[ Quote ]
| A security firm has found a pair of security bugs in Microsoft's
| Windows Mobile which, if exploited, could crash phones and other
| devices running the software.
`----

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6155141.html


Trend Micro Finds More Windows Mobile Flaws

,----[ Quote ]
| Trend Micro has again discovered flaws related to Windows Mobile.
| Both of the newly found vulnerabilities are flaws in applications
| that ship by default with Microsoft?s mobile device OS.
`----

http://blog.trendmicro.com/trend-micro-finds-more-windows-mobile-flaws/


Microsoft shows its hand to stay in the mobile web war

,----[ Quote ]
| Repeatedly it has been asked of Microsoft, why not throw away Windows
| Mobile and build a new generation of software on top of the prevalent
| smart phone operating systems -- Symbian and Linux, or add Windows
| Mobile only as an afterthought?
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/06/microsoft_deepfish_mobile_browser/


Palm's Fat Hand

,----[ Quote ]
| Samsung' Blackjack and Motorola's Q, while easy on the eyes, are
| hampered by Microsoft's unintuitive Windows Mobile operating
| system. 
`----

http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/08/iphone-treo-palm-tech-wireless-cx_rr_0509palm.html?partner=yahootix


Vista-Windows Mobile 6.0 file-sync fix due in mid-June

,----[ Quote ]
| Even though Windows Vista has been out since January (or November,
| if you're a business customer), there are still products and applications 
| -- including some from Microsoft itself -- that don't work with Vista.
`----

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=480


I'm breaking up with Windows Mobile

,----[ Quote ]
| But tomorrow, I'm saying goodbye, or at least fare-well to my Windows 
| Mobile days. 
`----

http://onemanshouting.com/tech/2007/06/05/ImBreakingUpWithWindowsMobile.aspx


T-Mobile Wing Review 

,----[ Quote ]
| With that said, Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 is a disappointment. 
| Working with a number of applications or "heavy" documents was 
| painful. The delay was too much, especially in Word and PowerPoint 
| files that it wasn?t possible for us to work with the device without 
| messing up somewhere and not realizing it in the end. This lag is 
| present across a number of other scenarios as well.
`----

http://www.cooltechzone.com/Departments/Featured_Story/T-Mobile_Wing_Review_200706042861/


HTC takes a gamble with new brand and OS strategy

,----[ Quote ]
| Despite making gains in the enterprise and becoming a fairly robust
| and well recognized, if relatively minor, smartphone platform, Windows
| Mobile will clearly be just an element in the mobile picture, and
| probably a small one compared to Linux and the growing family of
| Java-oriented OSs like Symbian/Series 60 or Sun's new developments.
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/18/htc_new_strategy/


Microsoft Hides Its Mobile and Business Apps Divisions

,----[ Quote ]
| The company is folding its two worst-performing divisions -- Microsoft
| Business Solutions (its business applications unit) and its Mobile and
| Embedded units -- into the Microsoft Business Division and Microsoft Home
| and Entertainment units, respectively.
`---- 

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1990243,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535


How to crash a Windows mobile using MMS

,----[ Quote ]
| Security researchers have released proof-of-concept code that exploits 
| vulnerabilities in MMS implementations in mobile phones running
| mobile versions of Windows.
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/02/windows_mms_vuln/


70 percent of smartphones use Symbian

,----[ Quote ]
| At 3GSM it became clear that 70 percent of all smartphones use Symbian.
| 
| Linux accounts for 16.9 percent of the smartphone market and only
| 4.6 percent uses Microsoft Windows Mobile.
`----

http://www.dvhardware.net/article17134.html


Microsoft doesn't deny Windows Mobile flaw

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft has refused to deny that the most recent version of
| Windows Mobile leaves data poorly secured on handsets.
`----

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39284532,00.htm


Mobile Security, Virtualization on tap at MS Hacking Meet

,----[ Quote ]
| Plus, we've got a couple of talks on Windows Mobile and more about automated 
| exploit creation-- this time using Metasploit." 
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070922/tc_pcworld/137478


Airscanner Vulnerability Summary: Windows Mobile Security Software Fails the
Test

,----[ Quote ]
| Since developers are not in a hurry to keep their users information
| secure... we feel compelled to publish - with exclusivity granted to us
| by author till August 21, 2006 - an article, that reveals various
| problems with Windows Mobile software from various software vendors!
| This article is a "must read" for any serious user of Windows Mobile...
`----

http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5474.html 


Review of Windows Mobile 6.0 for PPC (Crossbow) operating system

,----[ Quote ]
| Regrettably, this world lacks miracles and this case is just another
| proof of that. The system still doesn?t offer support for several
| active windows in Internet Explorer, so that you are limited to a
| single window at a time, also profiles are missing in WM; the office 
| applications haven?t been enhanced either. Nor were the multimedia
| tools. What the company has really got to do is keep on tuning
| Office Mobile, extending Windows Live, release Windows Media Mobile
| 11 and so on.
`----

http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/articles/wm-crossbow-en.shtml


Intel chief sings iPhone's praises

,----[ Quote ]
| Apple's iPhone is forcing a new wave of mobile device innovation
| and validates the superiority of Unix-like systems on mobile devices
| over Windows, claimed Intel chief executive Paul Otellini.
`----

http://www.mobile88.com/news/read.asp?file=/2007/3/6/20070306014323&sec=International

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