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News Pick Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts innovation, mobile, Windows 8
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 03:58 AM EDT
"I should be able to just tell my computer to print my boarding pass for my flight to D.C.," he said, "but right now I can't."
Now, is that operator error? or american airlines having a TSA moment? My computer can print my boarding pass, but then I'm not in US, and I don't run Windows. Meanwhile in other news the company keeps growing on vapor
“We’re driving toward exciting launches across the entire company, while delivering strong financial results,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft. “With the upcoming release of new Windows 8 PCs and tablets, the next version of Office, and a wide array of products and services for the enterprise and consumers, we will be delivering exceptional value to all our customers in the year ahead.”
Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Revenue

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News Pick Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts innovation, mobile, Windows 8
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 05:35 AM EDT
Anyone else worried about their "file control on other people's
computers" or is that such old news that no-one is making a fuss about it
anymore?

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Maybe it's me...
Authored by: hardmath on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 08:59 AM EDT
But Ballmer comes across as especially wifty in these press
posturings:

"Windows Phone is really a platform."

"Windows 8 is Windows energized," referring to 'live tiles'
their TV ads tout as critical to keeping tabs on your
friends.

"You can't completely control the device, so we've developed
information rights management," with no indication why such
a thing would be any more successful.

Such insights, so freely offered; this must be why Ballmer
gets paid the big bucks. Blowing smoke much, Steve?



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Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense. -- John McCarthy (1927-2011)

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"have to have"...?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT
"I have to have information rights management on everything I do..."

And that's why people are staying away by the millions.

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that was a typo...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 10:31 PM EDT
It was supposed to read "Litigation, mobile and windows 8".

After all, that's what they do isn't it?


As for not.copying anything for wp7 , perhaps that's why people are
not buying it?

They have certainly been accused of copying a lot in the past

From Xerox, from Dr dos, from apple etc etc.

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