Microsoft
Microsoft
Recently, I was reading between lines of new press releases, and saw something strange happening. First and foremost, Microsoft phased out its Courier incubation project, that disappoints lots of people like me. Secondly, HP drops its Slate project running Win7. The last but not the least is the acquisition of Palm by HP. Putting all these together, we can conclude that a company like HP (and presumably Lenovo, HTC, etc) are going to develop their own OS or using other open ones such as Android. One of the only reasons Microsoft does not release its own...
Personally, If one day I have a chance to talk to someone in Microsoft, I prefer to have a chat with Ray Ozzie or Scott Gu but I cannot hide how impressed I am after reading part three of Techcrunch interview with Steve Ballmer. Just interested in how beautifully he managed to describe competitive market of OS, Mobile, and of course browsers. The golden quotations are: Chrome is a rounding error to date. Safari is a rounding error to date. But Firefox is not. In the OS...