Microsoft

É triste vivermos num mundo dominado tecnologicamente pela mediocridade que emana da Microsoft. Provavelmente, tem de ser, porque deve haver um aspecto de mínimo denominador comum que talvez seja incontornável à dominação mundial.

Há por aí um filme do BSOD (blue screen of death) que marcou uma apresentação do Windows XP no CES há uns anos (acho que era o XP e que era o CES). Este ano, o keynote speech de Bill Gates no CES correu pior. Uma humilhação inacreditável.

"Still, it's arguable that the technology Gates is evangelizing--the digitally integrated home, with one PC controlling everything from the television to the lights and the heating system--will ultimately be more important than digital music players and photo manipulation software (if you can call superfancy TV important, I suppose). Gates seems to get the big technology picture and seems willing to relegate Windows to an embedded system to achieve that goal. The dirty little secret of consumer electronics is that hardware doesn't run without software and content remains king. (Where's the iPod without iTunes and the iTunes Music Store?) So maybe his little keynote problem didn't bug Bill Gates so much after all. He may be awkward, and he might make Xbox sound about as exciting as Microsoft Access, but where Steve Jobs is talking about a lifestyle and appealing to your gut, Bill's talking about a serious and determined strategy for world domination. It ain't sexy, but then again, war never is." - Molly Wood