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It's 2009 and I'm sure the powers that be at Microsoft are hoping it's going to be a good one without any tears, but even as the old year closed, the news kept getting worse for the software giant.
Just yesterday the web surged with news that 30 GB Zunes were freezing up, apparently the victim of a Y2K-type clock bug where the Zunes rebooted and froze as of January 1, 2009 Pacific Time. And this morning, Ars Technica reports that rumors are flying about a massive layoff on January 15 involving 17 percent of the worldwide work force. Not exactly the stuff that dreams are made of.
Ron Miller writes in this piece regarding "The Future" for Microsoft
Quoting:If Don Reisinger at Cnet is right [source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10130064-17.html?part=rss&... , 'Windows 7 hits store shelves'], we might be seeing Windows 7 by the end of the year, although I have my doubts about that. Reisinger argues that Microsoft needs to put Vista behind it as quickly as possible and while I agree, it would be foolish to put out Windows 7 before it is ready and fully tested. The last thing Microsoft needs is another Vista and it needs be very careful this year.
I believe the company has reached a critical cross-roads for Windows, especially on the consumer side. It needs to hit a home run with Windows 7 to get its momentum back.
One can almost envisage that the more insidious MS shills will downright leap out of hiding and expose themselves, based upon these pieces and similar such revelations.
Indeed, neither these shills nor their "sponsors" would wish to be among the one-sixth of Microsoft's workforce rumored to be laid-off within the next two weeks or so (see
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2009/01/01/rum... , http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi... and other fine sites reporting on this massive downsizing)
So, a crescendo of FUD-spinning and its related IP-Patent threat-posturing well before a possible MIcrosoft announcement of Windows 7's impending release in March/April of this New Year 2009 ??
Remember: LXer's reading this now, saw it here first (okay, maybe second or third!)
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One can almost envisage that the more insidious MS shills will downright leap out of hiding and expose themselves, based upon these pieces and similar such revelations. Indeed, neither these shills nor their "sponsors" would wish to be among the one-sixth of Microsoft's workforce rumored to be laid-off within the next two weeks or so (see http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2009/01/01/rum... , http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi... and other fine sites reporting on this massive downsizing)
So, a crescendo of FUD-spinning and its related IP-Patent threat-posturing well before a possible MIcrosoft announcement of Windows 7's impending release in March/April of this New Year 2009 ?? Remember: LXer's reading this now, saw it here first (okay, maybe second or third!)