and thus the fun bings.

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clearly you have no idea what you are talking about, you mention that msft captured the low-end desktop market because of price point, what are you talking about unix/linux are gnu you need to do some research before you spew off some of the stuff you said… also the wii is the latest technology, once again you are incorrect. it uses lowend parts but was attractive to consumers because of its brand name (mario, zelda, smash bros, mario kart, and new innovations like wii fit, and wii sports) and its great idea of using the motion sensing controllers. please save all the good people on bgr of you’re uneducated commenting… you need to do some research before you make outrageous comments without facts to back them, windows 7 will most likely generate a massive amount of revenue for microsoft and their current advertising has hurt apple tremendously as indicated on both gizmodo and engadget… i guess you can google it, or bing! it in a few days… rofl

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original ipod in 2002 i’d see someone with it once a week or so.

2006 and 2007 a lot of people had ipods

these days i see a few touches or iphones every day. the Touch/iphone seems to have had much faster acceptance than the ipod

ever since the Zune came out, i know of only one person with one

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i wonder who’s idea at RIM it was to release a $199 phone with no 3G in 2009?

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iphone and other smart phones are seeing their prices drop to the point of being “free”. what is the point of buying a device with HD radio when i can pay for a data plan and get the same radio stations on my cell? along with the ability to run applications and depending on carrier i can also stream TV shows.

cell phone plan prices are dropping like land line/broadband prices did 10 years ago. the cash price of a cell bill is still the same today, but it seems every few months more and more calls go into the unlimited minutes category. everyone already has unlimited data plans.

with LTE coming our way this is only going to increase

somebody at Apple realized that the trend is to have one device to do everything

people will still buy MP3 players, but as phones get smarter and data prices go down they will go away in favor of one device and all these proprietary media delivery formats like radio antennas and XM satellite will give way to the internet with the last mile being a cell tower or whatever people will have in their home

some people will buy Zunes for the HD radio feature, but most people won’t care. how many people here have HD radio in their cars?

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Windows wasn’t better than Unix, but the price and features were enough to make people buy it over big iron. the whole time everyone was saying how windows can’t run in a 99.999% uptime environment. and today it can while Sun is being sold off and is a shadow of its former self.

same thing with the iphone. it may not have all the features of other phones, but the features it does have compared to the price is making it the device to have. and just like Windows, at some point corporate IT deparments will dump their BB’s in favor of the iphone if RIM doesn’t start to compete again. it’s already cheaper to give people iphones than blackberries for Exchange integration, it’s just the perception that the iphone is a toy.

rumor is that apple will keep on selling the 8GB version for $99. next year they will probably have a free version for the ultra low end. meanwhile it seems like RIM, MS and others are acting just like Sun and Novell did back in the 1990’s.

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Uh, “bing” is already a verb. When I was a kid in Maine, before we’d plant the vegetable garden, we had to “bing” or pile up the rocks we found. (The pile of rocks was also called a bing.) The OED shows this and two other verb uses.

What strikes me as strange here is that our focus is as bad as MSFT’s. Ever since Bing was announced, blogs have fixated on the name — BGR’s is hardly the first derisive comment out there. But the name is irrelevant. If MSFT had called the service “Giant Stinking Pile of Poo” but provided a markedly better search experience than its competitors, we’d all be “pooing” for info before the end of the year. (Okay, maybe THAT name would have been a deal-breaker.) Bing is just as inoffensive and near-meaningless to the average user as Google or Sprite or Camry or RAZR — if the product is any good, the name will become the product, and no one will notice how silly the name might have once been.

But is Bing really going to be any better than Live Search? If the only change is the name, then Redmond is in serious trouble….

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it’s not going to happen next year, but at some point in the near future it will become uneconomical to maintain a system that only broadcasts radio signals. HD radio along with XM/Sirius are dead technologies.

in the next year or two so many phones will be capable of streaming any radio station from anywhere, HD Radio on a Zune is a useless feature

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microsoft is allowing competitors to capture the low end of their market and this is a well known business strategy to get to the high end later on. MS and Intel did the exact same thing starting in the 1980’s. MS is losing in the mobile and netbook market and this could allow competitors to take on MS’s big cash cows in a few years. Android, iPhone OS and other flavors of ^nix are coming to netbooks because we’re in a cycle where the desktop/laptop isn’t important anymore. if MS loses this market then in 5 years they will be at risk of being attacked in their server markets. MS did the exact same thing to Sun, IBM and others. they captured the desktop and used it to capture a large part of a lot of server products.

if everyone is running non-microsoft OS’s on their mobile devices then it makes it that much easier to make a non-MS server software purchase. or a non-MS office suite purchase

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@Alen – people said Nintendo was done between the PS1 and PS2. I don’t know if you should just write off Microsoft.

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@Jordan

Holy shit that made me laugh out loud! How shortsighted can they be around here? Hilarious!

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the server products are growing very nicely, and they go to business customers. i admin SQL Server and like the server products a lot. the linux fan boys still don’t get it why linux on the desktop is a joke.

X-Box is doing well and the games division did some good things since the 1980’s when flight simulator was the only game they had. From what i’ve read Games is pretty much a new division and mostly new hires in the last 10 years or so

MSN is a joke. They took Hotmail from the most widely used web email to a distant behind GMail. Every other part of MSN is a joke compared to similar offerings

Mobile/CE is getting killed. 2000 – 2002 everyone wanted an iPaq or the Dell version. First Blackberry became the mobile device to have, then the iphone came along. why couldn’t one of MS’s geniuses figure out that people would kill for an iPaq/cell phone device all in one.

the zune is a joke and feature wise at least a year behind the Touch. for the new one the TV out is nice, but whoever thought up HD radio needs to have some sense knocked into them and have pandora, slacker or streaming radio tatooed on their head. the touch can run almost every iphone app and is a nice alternative to buying a netbook, a kindle or any other device out there that only does one thing. the zune is just a music player.

desktop OS, microsoft is lucky that Apple wants to charge an arm and a leg for what is essentially a PC with magic pixie dust. MS needs to tell OEM’s to stop with the crapware so people’s new PC’s don’t look like a x-mas tree with flashing windows saying buy me.

PC and laptop growth is over and MS seems to have missed the mobility revolution like it’s competitors missed the desktop/server revolution in the 1990’s. we’re now at a point right around when Windows 95 was released, except the future is mobile devices and no need to have a full browser to access information on the internet. we’re now in a tech boom where you will use your phone or PDA to access information, or play any media anywhere you are. and you will use a tiny (compared to full OS X or Windows app) to access just the information you want. The ipod touch does this and will kill most of the devices in the drug store come the next version, zune just plays music. Apple is giving us the one device that can do almost anything.

the reason is apple has always marketed directly to consumers and is better at this, while MS seems completely lost except for it’s games division. It sold Windows 95 and XP to businesses and never had to market to consumers.

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Would have expected a little more of an understanding from a media outlet called “The Boy Genius Report”…

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The downfall of this might be that MSFT is filtering alot of the information for you and who trusts MSFT? Google gives the impression that search results are unbiased and based on popularity and links but they are constantly trying to tweak their algos to prevent people from gaming it. MSFT is going to decide who you should trust for info on health, shopping and travel? No thanks.

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@alen which products do they have besides the Zune, that is failing?

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