First annual Ballmer video mashup

Nothing that’s never been done before, but in light of recent news, which made a few people feel like this

because of this

we thought a little ol’ video compilation might be in order. First off, at least for us, the still funniest of ‘em all.

But it is closely followed by Ballmer’s “developers dance”, which spawned some of the cooler memes those days.

As a special something, think of one of the many predictions Steve Ballmer made when the iPhone first entered the market.

Many would of course point to one of the first appearences he ever made on a screen – promoting Windows 1.0 in a commercial on TV.

I always liked how his high pitched voice gets even higher when he’s excited, and guess what else? …A clock aaaand – REVERSI, all these new features and reversi.

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Shoulders of giants

Blobfish by csmonitor.

Awww they’re right!

We have to hand it to MS – there is one major issue that affects most of your average Joe’s web browsing experience deeply indeed. We’re talking, of course, about the question of just how psychedelic your browser is. To find out, if you haven’t already, you need to go to

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBrowsing/

which will answer the question that we know is just bugging you. Like, really now.

Amongst other things, they spin the psycho wheel.

Instead of reading about this, you could of course, theoretically speaking, just hit the link…but let’s not get metaphysical and stick with the psychedelic now.

What-if episode, but without science fiction

You remember when Apple overtook MS in terms of market value, a few weeks ago? While I was dumb struck reading something like that at the time, it kept me wondering what could be the possible outcomes if a development like this continues. So here’s our little list, futureproof and all -

1. Nothing really happens. Too often one fails to set the variables right, and the utmost part of speculation remains just that. But it might just give you an opportunity to be funny.
2. The IT world as a whole continues to shift, and up to a third of all things digital could be done on smartphones and all sort of handsets, where we would be seeing Android (160 000 new activations A DAY? Still can’t believe it) and Apple as market leaders.
3. Microsoft discontinues Windows. That would make Mac OS n the dominant “you’ll have to pay for that, my son”-OS out there. Every other manufacturer would need to adapt by either making Mac OS its native system like this

or, go ahead and try to delevop its own operating system, which is quite hard and costly. So why not take a long established standard, that costs nothing, while you may even claim money for it? Case in point, a little CD from South Africa? That would also mean the end of dual booting…like this.

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On the shoulders of giants

Cupcake by Adam Powell on the Android Developer’s Blog.

Mac OS on a tiny VAIO by daharder via boingboing.

Fused logo by dedoimedo.com.

Käfer No. 1

Nachdem Mark Shuttleworth nach einer längeren Pause das Bloggen wieder aufgenommen hat, ist klar, dass die Weltanschauung des Mannes gleichgeblieben ist. Also weiter so, unser jutester, mit dem Mädchen No.1 …ähm. Dem Bug Nr. 1.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

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Die Schultern der Giganten

https://launchpad.net/

und Markens Blog – http://www.markshuttleworth.com/

Das KIN ist tot. Aber ich habe doch eben noch…

…die Meldung im Ticker gesehen, dass Microsoft der Mobilwelt einen Kinnhaken versetzen wollte. Ach, das ist schon über sechs Wochen her? Das Team jedenfalls ist in das Windows 7 Phone-Team eingegliedert worden, und nachdem sich das Ding weit unter 10000 mal verkauft hat, kommt er auch erst gar nicht in Europa oder Asien raus. Autsch.

Als Gründe für den FAIL werden genannt: Das Auftreten in der Smartphoneliga, mit hohem Preis, dafür aber ohne Smartphonefeatures, -funktionen, Anwendungen; ein “Social-networking”-Telefon, das aber weder einen Chat-client noch vernünftige Twitter-Integration hatte, und schließlich der gesamte Rest von Einführung über Marketing/Werbung etc. Aber konzentrieren wir uns doch lieber auf die guten Seiten. Die Packung zB. war der des iPhones überlegen -

Das hatte ein ziemlich langes Kinn.

Außerdem stehen wir aus irgend einem unerfindlichen Grund auf das typisch nerdig-horstige, Office-Excel-Hersteller-will-auch-Industriedesign-machen-Outfit. Will sagen: Handys, die wie Bälle aussehen, sind immer ein Gewinn für die Welt.

Und was, mal im Ernst, die Lösung für alle echten Spieler wäre, von iOS zu Android und Co., ist die “KIN Studio” genannte Funktion, alle Daten, vom Adressbuch über SMS zu ehemaligen PC-Domänen wie social Zeugs, in einer einheitlichen Schleife regelmässig online zu speichern. Diese Funktion, ohne Gebühr, brauchen wir auf den anderen Telefonen.

Sollte es das Ding mal janz billich bei ebay oder so was geben, zählt mich dazu.

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Auf den Schultern von Giganten -

PCMag aus den USA breaken die Story – http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365898,00.asp

PC World schätzt das MS KIN nicht – http://www.pcworld.com/article/200258/why_microsofts_kin_phones_were_destined_to_fail.html

Slashdots Geschichte dazu – http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/2317256/Microsoft-Kills-the-Kin

Weiter geht’s hier -

http://www.kin.com/

Not cool enough

Now, first off we do not belittle Microsoft, we have been using Win for a long and prospering time and are fond of our 360s. But some time last year, when trying to download MS Photosynth on one non-win-machine, a screen pops up, just like this one right here -

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now, we’re pretty sure here that we had been using ubuntu, while they seem to address Mac OS n, but still.