Comments on: Microsoft's Mundie looks beyond Gates

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, offers insights into where the company is placing its bets in the post-Gates era.

[solomonrex]

Boring, but one line made me laugh

"If I told you that I could make Word, Excel and PowerPoint just as you know them today a hundred times faster, would it be significant for you? "

Um, you mean as fast as they were on Windows 95? That fast?

[Arrgster]

I have a tablet PC

And to be honest the pen thing just isn't that useful. I find the keyboard easier and faster to do things with. When I'm outside it's hard to see the screen in the sun (more a screen issue than windows) and trying to use the pen is clumsy. The worst thing is after carrying the thing around trying to enter data it starts to get heavy.

[Dandy55]

RE: I have a Tablet PC

If you don't know what Tablet is for - maybe you don't need it, save your money and buy a standard notebook. It depends very much on what are you trying to do with your Tablet, and what sort of applications are you runnung on it.

Say, if you use MS Word on your Tablet for taking notes, it would not be that different from using it on a standard laptop. But - have you ever tried OneNote instead?

Pen is great - if you really know what to do with it, how to use it. If your idea of using the pen is not going further than trying to type on a screen keyboard thingie - naturally, you will be disappointed, real keyboard is much more convenient. Also, picking your nose with a finger is much more convenient and cheaper than trying to do it with Tablet PC pen too.
:)

[Dandy55]

RE: I have a Tablet PC

If you don't know what Tablet is for - maybe you don't need it, save your money and buy a standard notebook. It depends very much on what are you trying to do with your Tablet, and what sort of applications are you runnung on it.

Say, if you use MS Word on your Tablet for taking notes, it would not be that different from using it on a standard laptop. But - have you ever tried OneNote instead?

Pen is great - if you really know what to do with it, how to use it. If your idea of using the pen is not going further than trying to type on a screen keyboard thingie - naturally, you will be disappointed, real keyboard is much more convenient. Also, picking your nose with a finger is much more convenient and cheaper than trying to do it with Tablet PC pen too.
:)

[PrattOSU]

"Religion is not very efficient."

This guy is so much better than Bill Gates! Look at some of the crazy things Bill has said over the years -
http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/2483//Religion+is+not+very+efficient+Bill+Gates+Quotes.aspx

from ListAfterList.com

[Ice Moose]

And he's right

..., it's not.

[PrattOSU]

Better than Bill

This guy is so much better than Bill Gates! Look at some of the crazy things Bill has said over the years -
http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/2483//Religion+is+not+very+efficient+Bill+Gates+Quotes.aspx

from ListAfterList.com

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Year that it about mobiles sorry if i interpreted you wrong there.

Microsoft your approach to mobile technology stinks the rest is a well thaught out approach from the ground thing that is the ony place things trully come to fuision.
Ok year it's the idea that the only thing a mobile is usful for is for uniformally giving people access to the greater PC and clouds for the middle classes and working/wannabe working class.

In fact mobiles could be usful in all areas of Profession and development and should really become the engineers prize peice.
Right now we can store gigabytes on a mobile unit so lets make some good use of that.
Mobiles can become usful for survaying dna in a rain forest to simply mesuring ones heartbeat each day.
This in my opinion should be closly alligned with an encouraged greeness hence show we can build a way towards making the world eventually
Individuallised, Scientifically artististic, and above all more usful/sustainable.

So then whats in the way of this obvious engineering desire(i've watched enough startrek in my time).
Why does your aproch seem to be to unify the gadget as a short term consumer device for most of us.

Surly theres more and above all better ways to manage the Electro Magnetic Spectrum hey CIA.
By the way before you say oh well my friend thats the way the world is the one thing this world has not yet fully taken into account with their business model and hopfully never will is the ability to better let individuals share to indivduals creativity.

You get what you pay for.
So remeber that when you eat your expesive burger meal, work your mcjob and try to convince me you can't afford any real life organics.

If you simply limit people off microsoft it will eventually nip you on the butt.
So be brave. Boldly go where no engineer/interesting minded person has gone before.
By the way i am in no way critising the rest of the vision it's just i seem to see the same phone technology over and over again packaged diffrently.
If i've misinterpreted you then sorry.
My vision is for a slow but sure progress towards a more curvey market where more individual expression to other individuals is the norm and where your living quarters which you live in may be small but is more artistic/well engineered and full of life and still attanable/realistic.

Where do you stand on standing up for living and not just saving ones life.
P'S you might have a good view on this it's just that "this is what that class is rule" bit stank and really dosent do much for engineers moral the rest is very innovative and I look forward to making the most of such plus am still quite in love with some of those PC designs.

[t8]

Google

I bet one of the conditions for this interview was that the interviewer not mention the name Google.

So I took it upon myself to mention that dreaded name.

GOOGLE.

[t8]

Microsoft has a big problem

The problem is Windows.
It is too lucrative for them to move on and innovate in the Web space.

Unfortunately that is where everything is headed.

Microsoft are at the 1990s IBM stage. i.e., looking after lucrative legacy products. This of course opens the door to more nimble companies like Google to create the Web OS and weblications.

Microsoft's approach isn't future thinking, but it will line their pockets for another few years. But it will then be a downhill slide for them.

[Leeeroy Jenkins]

Ok guys, I'm going in!

Leeeeeeeeeeroy Jenkins!

[Ted Miller]

Blabble Blabble Blabble

Im really sorry, I just could not get past the first paragraph. Its sad Soros put most of his peanuts into the Microsoft bag. After using Vista, I am just sadly disapointed. From what I see they are never going to learn and imporve on their most numerous mistakes.

Look do the world a favor... LIQUIDATE!

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

What is a blipmip (technology concept idea)

A Blipmip is whee when you go out down town off on holiday you phone picks up stuff in a blip when you walk pass other people phones or company service.
Order to develope a Blipmip service you have to iron out all the unwanted things such a technology can bring on the other hand t would be maing god use of new high speed flash device and state of the are chip technology.

Pros of blipmiping - You could discove insteresting artist in your own back yard.
You could find out what special offers are at you local supermarket.
You might find a local lonly heart in your local area.
professionals could use this to collect data in way that saves time wasting instead of waiting for all to imput the data through the internet/intranet structre they could blipmip it through to a collector and while there going home to see the children or what ever the blipmip box is sending up the data to the mainframe.
some things you'd do through the mobile ine net you could do though blipmips more locally effectivly leaving more bandwidth for the operators to service you with.
Plus a whole lot more.


Cons
Ofensive blips would be an issue and also making it so you got the blipmips you wanted and not one's you didn't and how to regulate that being one of the major things that would need to be thought out.
ALso if you were driving in a car you wouldent be able to complete blip mips so well plus all the other issues like why would you need todays info about a town you just drove past and was not visiting.

Note that although this technology idea over lapse with currrent mobile to mobile sharing technology it is more about taking advantage of new faster IC capabilities.